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City of Kitchener Sustainability Efforts Highlighted in Case Study
October 2 by Tarana Persaud
The City of Kitchener has been a municipal leader in environmental planning and stewardship for many years. More recently, the City has joined the Climate Action Waterloo Region collaboration,which collectively aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 6% by 2020. Along with this, the City of Kitchener has its own 20% GHG reduction target from 2015. Read […]
Posted in: News & Updates, Regional Sustainability Initiative
Business [Un]Usual
September 23 by Tova Davidson
Over the past three and a half years or so, I have been lucky enough to attend a number of conferences focusing on organizational sustainability. These have included sectors such as municipalities, academia, for profit entities and a combination of all of these. And I always leave with new ideas, enhanced enthusiasm for the work […]
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Engaging your Workforce – How to Integrate Sustainability
September 20 by Tarana Persaud
This morning was well spent listening to Kathryn Cooper share her insight into how organisations can better integrate sustainability into their workforce. She highlighted that a common approach may be for green teams to gain endorsement from upper management, but this may not be fully effective. This is due to change being a difficult step to […]
Faces of SWR – Basak Topcu
September 5 by Sustainable Waterloo Region
Basak started volunteering at SWR when she was new to the region and looking for an opportunity to get involved in local sustainability. After attending an event with her realtor, a series of different events led her to volunteer at SWR, specifically with the TravelWise program. Basak is studying at University of Waterloo doing her Masters of […]
Posted in: Team & Culture, Blog
Buona Giornata di Roma
August 8 by Tova Davidson
They are setting records here in Rome. It is around 40 degrees every day, there has not been rain for many days, and there is none in sight. When I was researching sustainable cities in Europe, I saw that Rome was listed. This listing included information about water conservation. From the start water has been […]
Posted in: Business Sustainability - News and Commentary, Blog
Greetings from inspiring Freiburg
August 8 by Tova Davidson
One of the required stops on this trip, for me, was Freiburg Germany. I first heard about this place from the Conrad family and specifically Manfred Conrad. He came to Freiburg and saw what they are doing and it inspired him to start changing how Waterloo Region looks at development. There is an area of […]
Posted in: Business Sustainability - In the Community, Blog
Faces of SWR – Mariah Smith
August 2 by Sustainable Waterloo Region
Mariah joined SWR after realizing she wanted to do more to make a difference in her community. After hearing positive things about SWR, she started looking for ways to get involved. Right now she is a year 3 student at University of Waterloo studying Environmental Resource Studies. Mariah likes to keep busy, so additional to her […]
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Tova’s Travels – Bon soir de Strasbourg
July 27 by Tova Davidson
This is arguably the prettiest city I have ever seen. Around every corner is another beautiful place. Incredible architecture, pedestrian streets, and outdoor living abounds. This is a city of about 750,000+ people in the metropolitan area and about 270,000+ in the core city. In this way it is reminiscent of Waterloo Region. And it […]
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Employee Engagement – Waterloo North Hydro hosts Eco-Challenge
July 26 by Samantha Tavenor
We are always inspired when members take it upon themselves to improve their sustainability actions. For the month of July, the Green Team at Waterloo North Hydro implemented a month long Eco-Challenge, where employees are encouraged to be more environmentally focused with their day to day activities. Using their challenge as a ‘case study’, here […]
Posted in: Community Updates, Blog, Regional Sustainability Initiative
Tova’s Travels – Wilkommen from Stuttgart
July 25 by Tova Davidson
We arrived here last night and were informed about the Schlossplatz by a staff member at the airport. It is a city centre where they have closed the streets completely from vehicle traffic and the locals call it a green street. Only cyclists, pedestrians, etc can access this place. We walked down for a late […]
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