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Earth Week Kick-off Community Cleanup

Earth Week is a time for people around the world to come together and take action to protect our planet. This year, Sustainable Cobourg’s Youth Ambassador, Tovan Lew, lead our Earth Week kick-off with a community cleanup in partnership with the Town of Cobourg Mayor’s challenge, and the turnout was phenomenal! The event brought together individuals from all walks of life who are passionate about sustainability and making a difference in our community and for our planet.

According to Tovan, this year’s cleanup at Peace Park was a huge success. “We saw a 10x increase in volunteers for this year’s event, which was amazing. A big shoutout to our local Embers for all their efforts!”

In addition to the cleanup, Sustainable Cobourg is also hosting a number of other events throughout Earth Week including a community garden tour, guided hikes at Headwaters Farm, and a talk about health and the environment with Sue Shikaze.

Tovan hopes that sustainability initiatives like these show how everyone can take action in their daily lives to create a greener future. For more information on future events, check out our calendar page.

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Did You Know?

Adopting sustainable practices, whether large or small, can have significant impacts in the long run. If every office worker in the United Kingdom used one less staple a day by using a reusable paper clip, 120 tonnes of steel would be saved in one year.

So far in 2022, Depave Paradise has depaved 15 asphalt pavements! Since 2012 this group has completed 80 projects across 32 Canadian cities covering 76,384 square metres of unused paved surfaces into beautiful community green spaces with native grasses, flowers and trees. What an amazing sustainable action to capture carbon, a Greenhouse gas, and create a welcoming ecological ‘paradise’ for our monarchs and bees and of course, for us. Well done. This is a project of Green Communities Canada.

In 1993, the Convention on Biological Diversity put the precautionary principle to work.

In 1987, the Brundtland Report consolidated decades of work on sustainable development.

The First World Climate Conference happened in 1979 and opened up the science of climate change.

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank