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Recap: Celebrating Sustainability 2019

Waterloo region is home to so many incredible organizations, innovations,and solutions that are leading toward our stronger, more prosperousfuture. Please join us in celebrating all of them and thanking them for thework they are doing, creating cult ...

Interview With Le Prix Fashion and Consulting

I recently had a call with Robyn, the owner of Le Prix. We discussed all things sustainable fashion, including her store in downtown Kitchener, where the sustainable fashion industry is going and the impact of fast fashion. Robyn started her bus ...

Sustainable Living During Lockdown

CULTURE OF SUSTAINABILITY BLOG SERIES As we enter another province-wide lockdown many of us are managing the best we can, and I am sure you are looking for normalcy where possible. As much as it is important to manage expectations for yoursel ...

The Gifts of Gratitude: Our Partners

In this series, we have had an opportunity to share with you, our community, the incredible organizations that have made our work possible through their sponsorship, funding and partnership. We cap off this three part gratitude series with ...

A Transportation Revolution | The Sustainable Working Series

COVID-19 dramatically changed our travel habits. The sudden shift from driving to work every day to working from home has meant less vehicles on the road, and fewer transportation-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Building back be ...

The Gifts of Gratitude

A gratitude practice can take many forms, but when done regularly it has numerous mental and physical benefits for us as individuals. In a year when workplaces have changed, persevered and had to adapt in ways they could not have foreseen, we wa ...

The Gifts of Gratitude

Our team regularly shares what we are grateful for, to bring to mind the good in a time when it can be so easy to focus on the hardships we may be dealing with. It can be something simple like a cat snuggle, or a new show to binge watch (that on ...

EVs in Waterloo Region as an integral part of the Climate Action Plan

Climate action in the Waterloo Region provides an incredible opportunity for the uptake of electric vehicle infrastructure at all levels. Working collaboratively with the Waterloo Region and community residents provides opportunities to collabor ...

Winter Wellness

It doesn’t matter how you choose to describe this period of history we seem to find ourselves in – challenging, unprecedented or one of the many euphemisms we have started using to basically say, it really just sucks. At this point that sums it ...

Community Environmental Election Forum keeps sustainability top of mind

Tova Davidson | October 20, 2014

On Tuesday October 14, we got together with a number of other environmentally focused not-for-profits to host an election event that focused on sustainability. This event brought together over 40 candidates from across Waterloo Region to talk about their stance on environmental issues and connect with residents who are concerned with the same issues. We […]

The value of peer driven learning

Sustainable Waterloo Region | September 25, 2014

The room a buzz with networking, Sustainable Waterloo Region kicked off our 2014-2015 Regional Carbon Initiative event season on a high note last Thursday with a focus on network connections and organizational green teams. While it is the same Regional Carbon Initiative (RCI) we have grown to know and love, members can expect some notable changes […]

Community Update: September 2014

Sustainable Waterloo Region | September 19, 2014

It certainly seems as though summer is past and fall is upon us. Welcome to the September edition of our Community Update. This month we will be sharing more information about the new website for TravelWise, a great resource for members that want to commute more sustainably… Click here to read more about this and […]

Leading the Electric Vehicle Charge in Waterloo Region

Sustainable Waterloo Region | September 16, 2014

The Canadian Medical Association concluded that the national costs of air pollution will amount conservatively to $257B between 2008 and 2031.Transportation makes up a whopping 40% of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Waterloo Region. Automobiles also emit particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, and volatile organic compounds, which all contribute to smog in cities and […]

Community Update: August 2014

Sustainable Waterloo Region | August 18, 2014

Welcome to the August edition of the Community Update. The slower pace of the summer has afforded the SWR team to work on lots of planning and strategy for the coming year. In this edition we will share some of what we are working on, as well as give you advance notice on some cool […]

A Change in Scenery

Sustainable Waterloo Region | July 25, 2014

It’s only been six months since Tova officially started as Executive Director at Sustainable Waterloo Region. And while I’m proud of the work and planning that went into the transition at all levels of the organization, I’m prouder still of how wonderfully Tova has taken the lead of this growing organization at such a critical […]

Sustainable Waterloo Region launches new Regional Carbon Initiative membership opportunity; Marsland Centre Ltd. is inaugural member of “Collaborative Facility Membership”

Sustainable Waterloo Region | July 23, 2014

(Waterloo Region, ON) July 15, 2014 – Sustainable Waterloo Region is expanding the Regional Carbon Initiative (RCI) with the launch of a new Collaborative Facility Membership option, and is excited to welcome the Marsland Centre on Erb Street as the program’s inaugural member. Under the Collaborative Facility Membership option, building tenants are encouraged to partner […]

Community Update: July 2014

Sustainable Waterloo Region | July 16, 2014

Welcome to the July edition of our Community Update! What a great month June has been, and all of us here at SWR are looking forward to what is shaping up to be a beautiful summer! In this edition of the Update, we share some very exciting news about new members of the Regional Carbon […]

New Kitchener electric car station a sign of the times

Sustainable Waterloo Region | July 4, 2014

July, 4th, 2013 WATERLOO— Nariman Eghtedari began thinking about buying an electric car a couple of years ago, because he liked the idea of saving money on gas and doing less harm to the environment. But now that he owns one, he’s so enamoured of the vehicle that he’d never consider going back to a gas-powered […]

Community Update: June 2014

Sustainable Waterloo Region | June 11, 2014

Welcome to newest edition of the Community Update. With June upon us, and the end of our event season for 2013/2014, there is so much going on and worth sharing. Check out the information on our last few events of the year and get all the details on Bike Month, plus so much more. And, […]

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