Climate Change Champions launched

Our work to battle climate change continues with a new project, Climate Change Champions, which we'll be running with a first time collaboration with colleagues at Green Venture.

The Ontario Ministry of the Environment is providing just over $100,000 for the 18-month program through its Community Go Green Fund. This new project will prepare and deliver a tool-kit to support groups, businesses and individuals as they find ways to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

We'll be challenging Hamilton organizations to develop their own 'Kyoto plan', setting reduction targets and tracking progress over the next year. The tool-kit will combine the existing climate change approaches of EH and Green Venture and add new ones.

EH welcomes back Julia Kollek as our co-ordinator for this project. Julia led the very successful Tonnes for Trees program and more recently managed last year's Trees Count in Dundas that has generated the very active Dundas Valley Tree Keepers group. She'll be working together with Jordan Fysh, Energy Co-ordinator at Green Venture.

If you, your workplace, faith or social group would like to take part, we'd love to hear from you! Please contact Julia at jkollek@gmail.com or call 905-627-5410.