Brockville Climate Action Group

• Love Food Hate Waste

  The Love Food Hate Waste campaign aims to raise awareness of the need to reduce food waste. The campaign shows that by doing some easy practical everyday things in the home we can all waste less food, which will ultimately benefit our purses and the environment too.

• Rain barrel survey

  Use a BCAG-produced rain barrel to collect rain water for later use in your yard. This reduces demand on city water services, eases the load on city sewers during heavy downpours, and provides a reliable water supply during extended periods of drought.

• Watt meters

  Analyze your home energy use with a watt meter provided by BCAG and The 401 Electric Store ... and take informed conservation measures.

• Plastic bag recycling

  Drop off your unneeded plastic bags at these locations in Brockville.

• Brockville Freecycle

  The Brockville, Ontario Freecycle™ Network is open to all who want to "recycle" that special something rather than throw it away. Whether it's a chair, a fax machine, piano or an old door, feel free to post it. Or maybe you're looking to acquire something yourself! Nonprofit groups are also welcome to participate too!

• Allotment Gardens

  One easy way to reduce carbon emissions is to avoid food that has been highly-packaged and then trucked into the region. Supervised allotment gardens are available free of charge at the "Psych" on Oxford Street in the east end, courtesy of L&G Rehabilitation & Counselling Services.

• Habitat for Humanity | ReStore

  Accepts and resells quality new and used building materials, generating funds to support Habitat's building programs, while reducing the amount of used materials that are headed for overflowing landfills! Brockville ReStore: 4618 Airport Road, RR # 4, Brockville, ON, K6V 5T4, 613-342-5948

• Enhanced TAPS Program

  The Enhanced TAPS program is available by application to qualifying low-income families and individuals. The program provides you with energy saving tools including installation of a programmable thermostat, installation of foam pipe insulation and energy efficient showerheads plus aerators for kitchen and bathroom faucets.

• Brockville Farmers Market

  Reduce your carbon footprint by buying locally grown and produced goods, eating in season, and enjoying locally produced and preserved foods.

• Frontenac Arch Biosphere Reserve | Local Flavours

  Buying local foods replaces the need for long-distance shipping which reduces the production of damaging greenhouse gases. It also helps to preserve our rural agricultural landscape.

• Ontario | Add It Up

  This online experience will help you discover how many simple, positive choices you have right where you live.

• Centre for Energy | Residential

  Appliances and Lighting -- Heating and Cooling

• Enbridge | Energy Efficiency Tips

  There are many ways to save energy in your home every day. Review these tips to start saving energy and money.

• HydroOne Home PowerSaver

  Is your home energy efficient? Which appliances use the most energy? How much can you save? Get answers by analyzing your home’s energy use.

• Tint of Green

  Greening your home can be difficult. The biggest challenges? Knowing what products are truly 'green' and finding them in a timely fashion.

• obviously.ca

  Feeling overwhelmed by the crushing weight of climate change and environmental crisis? Finding it hard to believe that you, one solitary individual can do something, anything, to make a dent in a problem that is much closer to a mountain than a molehill?

• GlobalCool

  Use and lose less energy by doing any or many of these easy things.

• Minimise Your Carbon Footprint

  A list of simple things you can do immediately, which will start to reduce your contribution to global warming.

• The Low-Carbon Diet

  36 positive suggestions on how we can change our lives, reduce carbon emissions and help save the planet - all in the form of three simple and enticing menus, calculated not in calories but 'carbs'

• Reducing Personal Emissions: Electricity, Hot Water, Space Heating

  45% of our personal emissions is due to residential emissions, 54% of which is attributable to space heating, 25% to hot water heating, and 21% to electricity.

• Earth Day Footprint Quiz

  This Ecological Footprint Quiz estimates how much productive land and water you need to support what you use and what you discard. After answering 15 easy questions you'll be able to compare your Ecological Footprint to what other people use and to what is available on this planet.

• e-zone: Climate Change and Global Warming

  ... very hot topics these days!

• Global Warming – Kids Page

  Some basic information on what global warming means, and how you can help to stop the process.

• Climate Change – Kids Site

  Presented by the US Environmental Protection Agency

• Canadian Youth Climate Coalition

  48 youth organizations from across Canada [have come] together to form the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition - to stand united for a sane climate future. We are a non-partisan coalition demanding immediate and meaningful action on climate change by governmental and private sector leaders.

• Saving Electricity

  When you plug something into the wall, it seems clean enough -- you don't see or smell any pollution, like you do with your car. But the pollution is there -- it just happens at the power plant.

• Find an Energy-Saving Light Bulb

  Energy-saving light bulbs now come in all shapes and sizes. Choose as many or as few criteria as you like and we'll recommend bulbs that match.

• The international ENERGY STAR symbol

  A simple way for consumers to identify products that are among the most energy-efficient on the market

• The Gardener's Guide to Global Warming: Challenges and Solutions

  As gardeners, we are both guardians and stewards of our environment, and it is important for us to realize that there are many simple and thoughtful ways that we can work with nature to solve the problem. Through the following actions, we can make an enormous difference in our own backyards, in our communities, and in the way our government deals with this critical issue.

• Use Green Power

  Use power generated from renewable energy sources, through suppliers such as Bullfrog Power.

• BuildIt Solar: The Renewable Energy site for Do-It-Yourselfers

  More than 500 renewable energy and conservation projects you can build.

• BackyardChickens.com

  Established in 1999, BackyardChickens has become the #1 destination for the information you need to raise, keep, and appreciate chickens.

• EcoLogo - Certified Green Products - Consumer Products

  All of the "green" products listed here have been evaluated and audited to ensure compliance with EcoLogo criteria. These criteria reflect environmental leadership in the market for consumer goods, and encourage reduced environmental impacts.

• celsias

  Celsias is becoming the world's leading action-based climate change website that enables individuals, organizations and companies to take real action against global warming. On Celsias, you can learn, commit and do actions that will reduce your carbon footprint.

• Green Living Magazine

  Online magazine published by Environmental Defense

Last modified 27/10/08