Green Waterloo

This page is a work in progress. Maintained by Michael Fagan— please contact me with additions, corrections, and ideas.

On this page: Organizations Actions

Organizations

Region of Waterloo

• Region of Waterloo Public Health: Health Determinants Planning and Evaluation
• Region of Waterloo Waste Management
• Waterloo Region Food System Roundtable
• The Elora Centre for Environmental Excellence
• CREW Community Renewable Energy Waterloo
• Grand River Intentional Communities: Laurel Creek Commons
• Woolwich Healthy Communities
• Sustainable Waterloo
• Kitchener-Waterloo Green Drinks
• Conservation and Nature
  • Grand Valley Trails Association
  • Waterlooians.ca
  • Grand River Conservation Authority
  • Kitchener-Waterloo Field Naturalists
  • OMB Moraine
• Food
  • KW Urban Harvester
  • Foodlink Waterloo Region
  • Your Kitchener Market
  • Canadian Organic Growers: Perth-Waterloo-Wellington
• Transportation
  • Region of Waterloo Concerned Cyclists
  • Recycle Cycles
  • Rapid Transit
  • Grand River Carshare
• Buildings
  • REEP WR Residential Energy Efficiency Project Waterloo Region
  • Cambridge City Hall going LEED gold certified
  • North House - Solar Decathalon 2009

City of Waterloo

• Environmental Committee within WCRI (no contact details)

University of Waterloo / Wilfrid Laurier University

• UWENET UW Environment Network - attempting to unite green orgs
• UWSP University of Waterloo Sustainability Project is a FEDs service
• Alternatives Journal magazine published for Canada and beyond but written at UW
• R3Design FEDs club
• list of student environmental projects (papers, audits, etc.) on the now-defunct WatGreen website
• Green Roofs Over Waterloo
  • Petition to GROW facebook group
• bike.uwaterloo.ca (The Bike Centre, Yellow Bike Program, etc.)
• Residence Reduction Challenge (mailing list)
• UW Greens Green Party (politics)
• Grand House student co-operative
• Water Environment of Ontario, UW Chapter
• I support an Office of Sustainability at UW facebook group
• Ready to Act
• Trash 2 Treasure goods recycling
• Faculty of Environment
  • Planning Students Association
  • Environment Students Society
  • WEBS Waterloo Environment and Business Students
  • Environment and Business Conference
  • the faculty's newsletter
  • Sustainable Energy Research
  • Faculty of Enivronment Living Learning Community at St. Paul’s
• UW official websites
  • Plant Operations Sustainability Initiatives
  • UW Waste Management produces University of Waterloo: State of the Environment Report
  • UW Sustainability
• Alternative Energy
  • WISE Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (formerly GERI, Green Energy Research Institute)
  • STEP Sustainable Technology Education Project
  • UWAFT UW Alternative Fuels Team
  • Midnight Sun Solar Race Car Team
• Food
  • Eco-Café run by Food Services coming September 2008 in the School of Accounting
  • UW Vegetarian Club
  • Food Interest Group (sends email to a list of people, not an actual mailing list)
  • UW Farm Market run by Food Services for part of the year
  • overview of environmental initiatives from Food Services
  • University of Waterloo Community Garden is a WPIRG action group

Actions

What to do with...

Batteries

Turnkey Desk (or one other location?) in the Student Life Centre at the University of Waterloo, also Interstate Batteries

Green waste

places that will accept compostables

• UW Community Garden (see map)

start vermicomposting; get worms from:

• Worm Composting Canada, in Elmira
• email kitchenerwormfarm@live.ca or phone (519) 721 2389

Homeowners

• REEP The Residential Energy Efficiency Project (or is this the real site?)

Food Buyers

• Buy Local! Buy Fresh! Map not yet available online

Drivers

• Grand River Carshare

People who have not enough or too much stuff

• Kijiji
• Trash 2 Treasure
• Craigslist
• FullCircles
• Freecycle
• Declutterize Kitchener and Declutterize Waterloo County, unused

Anyone

• community gardens
• carpooling
  • Zimride
  • Craigslist
  • Kijiji
  • Carpool Zone
  • usenet uw.rides
  • Carpool.ca
  • note, list is not exhaustive, there are many other North American and worldwide carpool sites