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What we’ve been up to in 2023

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Hey Sustainable Peeps!

 Can you believe the first month of 2023 has already gone? I don’t know about you but it seems like time goes by so quickly. So many things going on at Sustainable Cobourg for 2023 and we need you all to help ‘be the change’.

Here’s an example of what we’ve been up to.

Our EV Director, David Kuhnke and his amazing team including Judy Smith our Climate Change Director, have been working for the past couple of years to highlight and inform our past and present council and Mayor about the electrification of Town vehicles and the need for more electric charging stations for the general public. 

Why? Well because: number one, by not using gas and diesel its way better for the environment, meaning less pollution and cleaner air for us to breathe; number two, there’s so little maintenance for EVs that the costs are really negligible for maintenance (which is good when considering the Town’s future Operating Budget): number three, we can take down our carbon footprint that eases the effects of creating Greenhouse Gases like Carbon Dioxide (which is what burning fossil fuels emits and affects climate to behave in problematic ways).

So, good for our health, good for the ‘pocketbook’ and good for the planet, which covers the 3 pillars of sustainability: environmental stewardship, social responsibility and economic resilience!

Want to know more?

Well it just so happens that our next SOS, oh my gosh, TOMORROW, (how did that happen???) at Venture 13 from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. will be about just that. 

Hope to see all you ‘change makers’ Thursday February 2 (we meet the first Thursday of every month) at Venture 13.

BRING YOUR MUG.

Best,

Gigi

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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