Brockville Climate Action Group

 
The Community Energy Partnerships Program (CEPP) provides grants of up to $200,000 to community renewable energy projects in Ontario. The money can be used to fund design, development and regulatory approvals phases of community power projects.

Join CEPP staff for a web-enabled conference call on WEDNESDAY JUNE 2nd, 10 a.m. - noon, to learn about eligibility criteria for CEPP, funded activities, and resources in the community power sector in Ontario.

Recorder and Times / Ron Zajac / 15 May 2010

[The Leeds and Grenville Technology Centre], a non-profit group designated as the local e-waste collection and consolidation centre by Ontario Electronic Stewardship (OES), runs a waste electronics and electrical equipment drop-off site at the former SCI complex, as well as a consolidation site.

Palaisy cited revised figures showing that, between the west-end site's opening in April 2009 and the end of December, it averaged 8,000 kilograms a month of electronic waste collected from local residents, a figure that has grown to 11,400 kilograms a month in the first four months of 2010.

Waterloo Record / Mirko Petricevic / 30 April 2010

For Christians looking to the sun for energy, a Waterloo church will be a place of enlightenment later this month.

About a dozen exhibitors at Erb Street Mennonite Church — including vendors selling solar panels, geothermal technology systems and other renewable energy technology — will be showing their wares and sharing information about reducing their power consumption and producing renewable energy locally.

Montreal Star / Peggy Curran / 17 April 2010

[...] While national governments and politicians sputter and dither about what is to be done, many environmentalists, scientists, town councils and business leaders have already moved on, looking for practical, eco-centric ways to mitigate the extent of the damage and adapt to the inevitable.

Energy Bulletin / Andrée Zaleska / 12 March 2010

We’ve been hearing for years that the mainline Protestant churches are on the wane in the United States, emptying out in an increasingly atomized society. And Catholicism has been clearly weakened by recent internal events. Is the Christian church only a force on the Right in the United States?

I don’t think so. In my personal life, my ten-year membership in a small church here in Boston has deepened as I’ve realized the extent of the environmental and economic crisis we are living through. I consider my church to be my community in a unique way: I rely on the congregation for my deepest sustenance--even those who are not my “friends”. These are the people I can be real with, and the ones I will count on as times get harder. I worry about the “unchurched”, and I often find myself recommending to friends that they find a liberal religious community to join, reminding them that there are many places that accept non-believers and agnostics.

Many activists working on climate change, peak oil and the economic crisis think similarly. The threat to our growth-based economy, and the materialistic lifestyle it has afforded us, has brought strong moral questions to the fore. Can we, in good conscience, continue to live in a way that threatens the well being of our planet, our poorer neighbors, and the generations to come? This question, and its answer, falls squarely into the realm of religion.

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