Create an outdoor classroom at your school. (Photo: Robert Christie)
Looking to green your school ground? Need some money for trees, shrubs, seating or vegetable gardens?
The Toyota Evergreen Learning Grounds program can help you. You can receive up to $2,000 for your public school, but time is running out. Hurry to meet the deadline of this Friday, January 15, 2010!
Click here for more information and to access the funding application.
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Don't forget to think about decorations! (Photo: Brad Deller)
The holiday season is upon us. As we dust off our reusable gift bags and set the timers on our strings of energy-efficient LED lights, many of us wonder how we can rise to the next level of holiday greening. Some will hand-make something special or donate to charity in lieu of gifts.
There are many ways to celebrate the season thoughtfully and sustainably, and we suggest that this year you rethink one of the season’s biggest icons: the Christmas tree.
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L-R Alix, Christine, Becky, Sarah (me!), Anne, Cara and Teena. A pizza party in our new first floor digs! (Photo: Melissa Yu)
Many folks in the non-profit sector will relate to “the space issue” all too well: Too many people, not enough room. It’s common to have office and even desk sharing, rotating times working from home, an overflowing fridge, holding meetings at nearby coffee shops…
We love our open-concept office on Adelaide Street West, but we are really outgrowing the space. Read the rest of this entry »
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Each year, our talented team of Learning Grounds Consultants offer many informative and stimulating workshops for teachers and school boards across Canada.
Depending on the workshop you choose to attend, you could learn:
As the air gets colder and the ground harder, our fall workshops are wrapping up and the consultants are busy preparing for winter and spring!
Check out the last of the December workshops still available and stay tuned for new postings.
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Success! Teck Metals staff with their new trees and shrubs. (Photo: Sarah Deller)
It was a warm, sunny day in September that I volunteered to help my co-worker Kim at a weekend event, but when planting day came, so did the cold and rain. Trooper that I am, I put on my raincoat and thought of the 30 trees and shrubs that were waiting to be planted.
This particular greening project took place with staff from Mississauga’s Teck Metals as part of the new Greening Corporate Grounds program. Evergreen and Credit Valley Conservation (CVC) have partnered to launch this initiative, which supports corporations, businesses, institutions and places of worship that want to green their grounds. Despite the weather, Teck staff were happy to be outside, turning a small corner of their front lawn into a dynamic green space.
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Exploring tree-tops in Japan (Photo: Dr. Ko Senda)
It’s recess and children are playing in a mud puddle and running through the tree tops! No, it isn’t a student mutiny, it’s Tokyo, where the innovative school-ground design of Japanese landscape architect Dr. Ko Senda is catching on.
I met Dr. Senda earlier this week when he paid the Evergreen Learning Grounds team a visit. Dr. Senda designs daycares and school grounds at Tokyo’s Environment Design Institute. Over the course of two days we learned about his work, discussed design constraints and possibilities, and showed him some of our school ground design work here in Toronto.
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Back to a barren school ground? Add some healthy green this year!
Toyota Evergreen Learning Grounds program is now accepting applications for the 2009/10 school year.
Download the application and guide today!
The Toyota Evergreen Learning Grounds program had a record number of applications last year and we were pleased to distribute over $210,000 to support 136 school ground greening or food gardening projects across Canada. We want to do it again this year!
If you’re looking to green an asphalt school ground or enhance an existing greening project, we strongly encourage you to apply, but quickly! Funds tend to run out before our January 15, 2010 deadline.
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