When: Choose 5:00 pm or 7:30 pm on Wednesday, February 20, 2019 Where: Simcoe Street Theatre (across from the Collingwood Library) What Film: The Uprooted: Years of Living Dangerously New York Times columnist Tom Friedman investigates the increasing population of climate refugees and actor Don Cheadle is on the ground in California, [...]
When: Choose 5:00 pm or 7:30 pm on Wednesday, January 16, 2019 Where: Simcoe Street Theatre (across from the Collingwood Library) What Film: Call Of The Forest– The Forgotten Wisdom Of Trees Call Of The Forest – The Forgotten Wisdom Of Trees’ is a documentary featuring scientist and acclaimed author Diana Beresford-Kroeger. [...]
By Janet Lees, The New Classical FM Harris Chats About Be The Change Film Series
By Erika Engel, collingwoodtoday.ca Film series intends to share knowledge and encourage action
Back to Basics, Dianne Saxe Listen to Dianne Saxe, Ontario's environmental commissioner, to discuss her 2018 environmental protection report, "Back to Basics," on Steve Paikin's Agenda episode Our Environmental Guardian (December 7, 2018). In this podcast, Saxe gives an overview of the province's water, wetlands and woodlands, the government's [...]
When: Choose 5:00 pm or 7:30 pm on Wednesday, November 21 Where: Simcoe Street Theatre (across from the Collingwood Library) What Film: You Are What You Act Can you really fake it until you make it? You Are What You Act proposes a potential revolutionary new health trend by asking what [...]
Watershed Trust Board members Deb Doherty, Norm Wingrove and Carl Michener receive funding for next year’s See the Salmon Run event from Collingwood TD branch manager Susan Tuohy and staff. $11000 of funding was granted through the TD Friends of the Environment program. Thank you, Susan & TD Friends of the Environment!
In December 2016 the Silver Creek stewardship Initiative Committee signed off on the last stages of our Ontario Trillium Foundation grant. One of the initiatives of the project was to expand environmental education in elementary schools in Collingwood and Thornbury through a working relationship with the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority, our [...]
By Don Kerr, member of Board and WAG The Trust has written several letters to the new Ontario government in an attempt to improve environmental legislation. We wrote to the ministers of Municipal Affairs (MMA) and Natural Resources (MNR) to request that they work together to expand the Greenbelt including the Niagara [...]
Lucy with her grandchildren on the beach at Craigleith. About 15 years ago, when her daughter and son-in-law were expecting the arrival of their first child, Lucy purchased a small chalet in Craigleith, on the southern shore of Georgian Bay. The one-lane dirt road the chalet sits upon, with [...]
