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Upper Grand celebrates Environment Week

MEDIA RELEASE

For Immediate Release
June 2, 2009

GUELPH, Ontario — Upper Grand administrative office staff are celebrating Environment Week, June 1-5, with a series of special events to focus attention on waste diversion, resource use, clean air and sustainability.

The board’s Environmental Projects Manager, Wendy Perkins, and Co-op student Leslea Lotimer, have planned “green” activities for board office staff in Guelph and Orangeville.

“There are lots of green initiatives in our schools, like litterless lunches and waste audits,” said Wendy Perkins. “Now we’re challenging our administrative staff to make the environment and the earth’s resources their focus, too”.

Two Lunch and Learn presentations are scheduled for the Guelph board office. On Monday June 1 staff brought litterless lunches, and saw the video “Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home” about an average family’s garbage consumption over a three month period. On Wednesday June 3, Leslie Bothwell, a Centennial CVI student, and one of only 200 people in Canada trained as presenters, will give the Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” presentation. There’s also a display of student posters on saving energy.

Other events include a light bulb contest where staff can determine which one of four different light bulbs is the most energy efficient, and commit to a variety of sustainability challenges, such as calculating their carbon foot print. Staff in the Orangeville office will be hooked up by video-conferencing to so they can see the An Inconvenient Truth presentation, and the Terry James Resource Centre at the board’s Silvercreek Parkway facility are invited to the lunch time events at the Victoria Road office.

Canadian Environment Week coincides with World Environment Day, which is celebrated on June 5. Originally designated by the United Nations in 1972, this day was set aside to stimulate political action on the environment around the world.

For more information: Maggie McFadzen, Communications Officer, 519-822-4420, ext. 725
[email protected]

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