Celebrating Sustaina le NEIGHBOURHOODS

2016 Activities: • helped Environmental Stewardship Pickering plan a community film night

about pollinators; over 1 00 guests and 9 community organizations attended

• joined 2016 CN Tower climb to raise funds for World Wildlife Fund's climate change research; have raised over $17,000 since they started participating

• established an on-site e-waste collection station; recycled over 1,000 lbs of e-waste in partnership with Ontario Electronic Stewardship

• implemented extensive waste diversion system for recycling everything from batteries, to cell phones, to milk bags

• certified Ontario EcoSchool for over 1 0 years (currently at platinum level); named "Greenest School in Canada" and "Greenest School on Earth'/

• monitored energy consumption

• continued campus biodiversity project; planted 95 trees (26 different species) including 2 Dutch Elm resistant American Elm trees

• completed Dunbarton Tree Tour which has signage for 30 trees on campus, a tour map/ and an informative website

• constructed pollinator bee habitat structures for community groups

• raised salmon as part of the Lake Ontario Salmon Restoration Program

• fund raised by selling native perennials to community members, placing over 600 native pollinator friendly plants into local gardens

• distributed reusable water bottles to grade 9 students to use at filling stations, conducted taste tests to compare bottled water to tap water

• continued vegetable garden project with four small student built greenhouses; students grew and harvested vegetables for donation to the food bank

• hosted an 'ideas exchange conference' for student leaders from environmental councils from six schools in Toronto, Scarborough and Durham

• collected compost from eight staff offices and began com posting in the school cafeteria one day a week

• began a campaign to ban the purchase of plastic water bottles for school events

• installed a second pollinator garden under the new school sign

• invested over 150 student volunteer hours watering campus trees and maintaining the pollinator garden in Ernie L. Strouds Park

• planted over 300 trees and shrubs in Ernie L. Strouds Park

• presented at a UOIT conference on environmental education for student teachers

• began partnering with four neighbours, who agreed to water campus trees that are behind their homes

• studies the impact of climate change on polar bears in Churchhil