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Fall Flood Prevention Tips for your Home
The seasons are shifting, bringing with them colder temperatures, equal length days and nights, crisp falling leaves, bird migration, pumpkin-spiced everything, and… the dreaded fall flood. When talking about floods, we mostly imagine the snowmelt and heavy rainfall...
GCNews September: GCC staff on the move
Kate Berry, GCC Program Director, has accepted a position with the City of Guelph’s Engineering and Transportation Department. Trained as a civil engineer, the move allows Kate to pursue her goal of attaining Professional Engineer status. Kate joined GCC six years ago...
10 Native Autumn/Fall-Interest Plants for your Rain Garden
Autumn, like spring, is the perfect time to drop your plants! Unlike summer, when new plants need watering to settle in for the season, nature does much of the watering, with rain, in the milder seasons. Perennials planted in the fall will overwinter and come back...
Indoor Air Quality: How to Reduce the Pollution Inside Your Home
Indoor Air Quality is a measure of contaminants present within an enclosed space & it can have an impact on your health. Read how to make your home’s IAQ better.
Canada Announces the Natural Infrastructure Fund: What You Need to Know to Apply
Green Infrastructure uses nature and natural processes to help reduce flooding and extreme heat, improve air and water quality, and make communities more vibrant and livable. New funding from the Government of Canada will help preserve and create natural infrastructure to support healthy, climate-resilient communities across the country.
GCNews August 2022: Join our Energy department
We’re looking for a Quality Assurance Manager to support our growing residential energy services. This is an opportunity for a Registered Energy Advisor to take on progressive responsibilities to support core EnerGuide services at a national level. Apply by 15...
Shaping Public Policy to Support Sustainable Mobility for Children
Researchers investigated how public policy impacts child mobility and shapes school travel behaviours. Drawing from across a large evidence base, they developed a suite of policy recommendations that provide a road map of opportunities for policy makers in school boards, municipalities and the provincial government.
Five steps to maximize benefits from a home energy retrofit
Energy retrofits play a critical role in helping tackle climate change. As a bonus, they help you save on your energy bills too. Retrofitting may improve or replace lighting, windows and doors, heating, cooling, and hot water systems, or add insulation and...
GCNews July 2022: Meet GCC’s summer staff
Tianna Mighty (left) and Charlotte Estey (right) have joined GCC for the summer months. Based in Winnipeg, MB, Tianna is working with our Green Infrastructure and Administrative Teams as Program Impact Support staff. She’s assisting with program development, impact...
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