Category: Blog

  • Earthfest is Coming!

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    TREA is pleased to be a part of Earthfest 2024’s planning committee this year – mark the date on your calendar – April 20. Organizing is now in the works!

  • The Plastics Registry

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      The federal government has opened public consultation on the creation of a Plastics Registry until February 13. The Registry will be used as a tool to monitor and to track plastic from the time it is produced to the end of use. Contribute at the link here.

  • London’s Green Bin Program

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    London has begun its Green Bin program! Visit here if you need more information and tips on composting.

  • December 2023 Update

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    As we enter the final days of 2023, we want you to know TREA is still actively looking at ways to move forward and has some exciting plans for the new year. Although the pandemic is no longer dominating the headlines, its impacts are still being felt in many ways. TREA moved through early Covid-19…

  • The Thing Library: an update

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    TREA partnered with the Reimagine Institute for Community Sustainability to establish The Thing Library in London. The Thing Library will help Londoners build a more sustainable future by lending gardening tools, kitchen utensils, home renovation tools, and more. Why buy something you need only once, or once a year, when you can borrow it?  Better…

  • 2021 TREA Online Auction

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    Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2021 TREA online auction before Christmas. Our many bidders in the auction helped TREA raise over $2,500. The 51 businesses who donated goods and services for the auction are listed below. Many thanks to all of them!   Anderson Craft Ales Blackfriars Bistro & Catering Canadian Tire…

  • Reimagine`s Thing Library

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    TREA is excited to engage with the start-up of Reimagine’s Thing Library in September. Just like a library is a place where you can borrow books, a Thing Library (also known as a library of things or a tool library) is a place where you can borrow things. The library will include a variety of…

  • London’s New Bike Lockers

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    The City unveiled enclosed bike lockers at three locations on August 26 downtown to help provide cyclists a new secure space to park their bike – at the corner of Dundas and Wellington Street, the north end of Clarence Street (beside Victoria Park), and in the underground parking garage at the Covent Garden Market. At…

  • Federal Election 2021

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    Elections are just one way we can address the climate crisis. More policies and laws that protect nature, give land back to Indigenous communities and reduce emissions are needed. London Environment Network has set up a template for Londoners to customize and make climate change the number one issue of this election. Please visit this link and…

  • IPCC 2021 Report

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    Assembled by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — a team of more than 200 scientists — their latest report represents a sweeping analysis of thousands of studies published over the past eight years as people the world over suffer record-shattering temperatures and deadly extreme weather, from catastrophic wildfires to monsoon rains to extreme…