Community members and website visitors of The Green Rocket – we thank you for your patience and understanding while our website is getting re-designed to maximize it’s user-friendly capacity and engagement of the Kitchener-Waterloo community and it’s sustainable resources!
Come back soon, and check out our Create and Collaborate section in the meantime to see the
many ways you can be a part of The Green Rocket.
We look forward to hearing from you!
– The Green Rocket team
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This is a pillar, credible information resource, such as our popular series from the main Green Rocket site, entitled How to Properly Interpret Statistics. With regards to the KW Local site, these articles will take form towards a local perspective, for example on topics of sustainable transportation, local policy, etc., or alternatively the academic proponent can include review or publication of a case study and/or other research, i.e. from surrounding academic institutions.
These are unique “green” blogs about relevant topics to the KW Area and surrounding regions. Primary focus should be articles that support Kitchener’s role in the “green” movement and inspire the community awareness and involvement.
Interviews are a primary resource for connecting individuals, organizations and businesses throughout the community. If you are a “green” business, organization, group, individual, etc. and feel like you have something to contribute to the local sustainability dialog, TGR would love to get your word out!
Community members and website visitors of The Green Rocket – we thank you for your patience and understanding while our website is getting re-designed to maximize it’s user-friendly capacity and engagement of the Kitchener-Waterloo community and it’s sustainable resources!
Come back soon, and check out our Create and Collaborate section in the meantime to see the
many ways you can be a part of The Green Rocket.
We look forward to hearing from you!
– The Green Rocket team
With a concern for public awareness and sustainability, the Region of Waterloo has authored a comprehensive and accessible strategic plan to tackle environmental issues within the Waterloo region, entitled “The Region of Waterloo Environmental Sustainability Strategy”. The Green Rocket KW’s Content Development Manager, Jill Kolb, provides an overview of the document in this post.
This week I received a green bin at my home; it was just outside my door and all the way down my street. It seems my neighborhood was added to the next 50,000 homes enlisted into the regions “Green Bin Organic Program” which started in October 2006 in 5 neighborhoods totally 5000 homes.
The Region of Waterloo’s Waste Management Division is implementing an organics collection program. This program is similar to the Blue Box program, except it collects household organic materials such as food scraps and paper towels in green bins. The Green Bin program …
