By: Meghan Vidakovic, Green Venture Communications Volunteer The holidays are coming up fast, and it can be easy to slip into wasteful habits. Planning and thinking ahead can help beat avoidable waste, so read on to find some of our favourite holiday zero waste tips! Start saving your newspaper! Wrapping gifts in newspaper is a fun and creative way…
By: Ash Lloyd, EcoHouse Green Gardening Volunteer If you have a garden, you are probably used to seeing all kinds of bugs on or around your plants during the warm parts of the year. Many people consider bugs they do not recognize to be “gross” or pests, and so when they see them they try…
Hamilton is home for many things – people, animals, waterfalls, steel, and vehicles too! Now more than ever, keeping our air clean of pollutants is of vital importance. As trucks and cars flow through our city streets, noxious gases from tailpipe exhaust and fine particulate matter from brakes and tire ware are thrown into the…
Seedy Saturday is in three short months – February 1st 2020! Here at Green Venture we are in the planning stages of this wonderful community event you all know and love. You can help too! Every year we get an overwhelming amount of seeds during the event that are need to be divided into smaller…
Catch the RAIN with a rain garden! We’ve installed our first rain garden as part of Catch the RAIN with a homeowner in Dundas. Each rain garden that has been designed by our RAIN Coach is a different shape and size because it is meant to work with the landscape. During the RAIN Coach visit…
Green Venture hosted its very first Fall Garden TuckIN event at the EcoHouse and it was a big success! On November 2nd, volunteers and GV staff united to remove goutweed, raspberry canes, clean our community garden, put in native plants and lay down some mulch! We had a total of 31 volunteers join us at…
On October 28th, Green Venture staff and volunteers came together to share a meal and celebrate the immense volunteer contributions of this past year. We enjoyed a delicious potluck dinner, with fabulous offerings from both staff and volunteers. Between April and October 2019, well over 800 hours of volunteer time were contributed! Our volunteers dedicated…
Climate change talk is everywhere! The city of Hamilton declared a climate emergency this past spring, and many Hamilton students have joined in climate strikes. Our “Power to Change” presentation links personal energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, to give students a broad picture of what climate change is, and what personal actions we can…
Reducing our personal energy use, and greenhouse gas emissions, can feel very difficult and overwhelming. As part of the “Power to Change” campaign, we have provided people of all ages with simple actions they can take to tackle climate change. These actions cover a range of lifestyle changes related to food, transportation, home heating, shopping…
“Do you offer any school programs in French?” We have heard this question many times at the Green Venture Education Department. We are so excited to now offer the “Power to Change” in-class activity kit for teachers, in the French language! Green Venture has had the privilege to host many students from french speaking classrooms,…