Is It Okay To Disagree?
Hey Sustainable Peeps! Can you believe our summer of ’22 is gone, over, done? I don’t know about you, but I think it was glorious. However, I don’t think the cyclists in Ayros-Arbouix France, attending the “Tour de [...]
Sustainable Youth Spotlight – Sept. 2022
"For this month’s sustainable youth spotlight, please welcome Jack Becker! He is a volunteer at a sustainable agricultural market garden and would like to share some tips with you. Fall is the time for garlic planting (see photo)! [...]
All Candidates Forum on Sustainability
If you’re concerned about who will be shaping our municipality for the next 4 years, and you want to get to know their interests and goals as leaders in our community, particularly based on what plans and ideas [...]
Biomedical and Biochemistry Summer Scholars Program Symposium
I am ecstatic to share the Biomedical and Biochemistry Summer Scholars Program Symposium where I and the rest of the inaugural cohort shared what we've been working on and learning over the past few months. I am extremely [...]
Another Chance to Vote for the Environment
This October 24th, municipal elections will happen all across Ontario and the stakes are high. Municipalities control what gets built where – and that will determine both the future of our cities as well as the future of [...]
Integrated Community Sustainability Plan
Sustainable Cobourg is so encouraged with the steps the Town has taken to move us into a Culture of Sustainability that not only protects the environment, but also our social, physical, cultural, and economic well-being for ourselves and [...]
SOS (Sustainability Outreach Social)
Hey Sustainable Peeps! What are you doing this Thursday, September 1st from 7:00 p.m.? You’re coming to our first Sustainability Outreach Social in almost 3 years! Yes, it's been that long since we’ve shared a cup of coffee [...]
EVS Northumberland
Milestone! We now have 200 subscribers to this newsletter! Thanks to Toby MacLeod, CEO of STRADEGY.CA who sponsored both the EV Society & Sustainable Cobourg (SC) at Rotary Ribfest Aug 12-14, we were able to pitch our tent and talk to hundreds of people [...]
Congratulations to Randy
In the past couple of weeks there’s been one less person on Club rides….Randy Albon has been out of town in Dundas, Ontario immersing himself in the intensive Winterborne Bicycle Institute’s Professional Mechanics course (huge shout-out to Cycle [...]
The Times We’re Living In
Hey Sustainable Peeps! It’s good to be back to almost normal, isn’t it? The times we’re living in have been a great cause of concern for many of us. So much stress! I almost don’t want to read [...]
Sustainable Youth Spotlight – July 2022
Please welcome this month’s Sustainable Youth Spotlight: Alexia Boyagian! Alexia and her family have a garden at the Cobourg community gardens where they are able to grow their own food. She is passionate about reducing environmental impact through [...]