Oakvillegreen President Liz Benneian Wins National Award
 We are thrilled to announce that Oakvillegreen president Liz Benneian has been selected as the 2009 national recipient of Earth Day Canada's Hometown Hero Award.
Liz was honoured at a gala at The Drake Hotel in Toronto on June 10 2009. Liz was selected by a highly-respected panel of judges and from approximately 100 Canada-wide nominees. Receiving the Outstanding Commitment to the Environment Award at the event was author and well-known environmentalist Maude Barlow, chairperson of the Council of Canadians who is the first person to be appointed special advisor on water issues to the President of the United Nations. For more information on the awards ceremony, visit the gala site, and for a copy of Liz's acceptance speech click here or to view the press release. For every cause you have fought and every tree you have planted, thank you and congratulations from the Oakvillegreen Board and members!! This is well-deserved!
Welcome to the Transition Town movement!
 Oakvillegreen invites you to learn about Transition Towns, a global movement that seeks to inspire, catalyze and support community responses to peak oil and climate chaos. Hear how citizens, gathering together in their own communities and using their own knowledge, skills, creativity and imagination, have been coming up with exciting projects to make their communities more livable, healthy and resilient.
Transition Towns is a positive and solutions-focused movement that encourages people in communities around the world to come up with community-based solutions to Climate Chaos and Peak Oil.
From organizing local food groups, to creating local currencies, from building with natural, durable sustainable materials to creating alternative energy collectives, people active with Transition Towns seek to transform fear of our uncertain future into desire for, and action on, change. Find out more at www.TransitionOakville.ca
Over 30 people participated in our first meeting on June 29th. Please contact Hart Jansson at
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if you would like to learn more and/or join one of the working groups. For photos from the meeting, click here.
Next meeting is early September so join the movement today!
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Let's All Shop Oakville!
 Oakvillegreen promotes living, working, playing & shopping locally in order to reduce our carbon footprint and contribute to a vibrant, resilient community.
We are pleased to support this initiative by our Chamber of Commerce. Learn more at www.ishopoakville.ca
No Power Plant in Oakville/Clarkson
 Oakvillegreen Conservation Association is fundamentally opposed to any new electrical generation being created that relies on finite resources whether they be oil, natural gas or uranium. Given that our goal is creating a sustainable, resilient society we believe new generation should come from renewable resources and that government funding and legislation should be directed toward supporting renewable power generation. Coupled with this, we believe the focus should be on conserving energy, supported by policies and legislation from all levels of government.
For more information on local involvement or a lawn sign, visit the Chartwell Maple Grove Residents Association site.
Oakvillegreen - Your voice today for a sustainable tomorrow
| Oakvillegreen is Oakville’s largest residents’ association that has been working for almost a decade to protect our environment, promote sustainable planning and make sure that new development pays for itself. We are a very successful group. Please take a read through our list of accomplishments. Aside from our advocacy work we also hold regular meetings with guest speakers, host free seminars, plant native trees and shrubs (more than 8,000!), make presentations to schools and community groups and host special events. We also keep our members and friends up to date on the local municipal and Regional issues that impact your life. We invite you to add your name to our email list so we can keep you updated about issues and events. You are also welcome to become a member or volunteer with our tree initiatives. Thank you for visiting us. If you have any questions or concerns to discuss or if you would like to have us come talk to your school or community group, please contact me, Liz Benneian, President, by
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Oakvillegreen - 10 years of environmental success
Oakvillegreen is a non-profit, non-partisan environmental organization, founded in 2000, working to ensure our community becomes healthy and sustainable. Oakvillegreen is the community’s strongest voice for responsible planning that values, protects and enhances our natural heritage. To accomplish our mission we advocate for sounder local, provincial and federal laws and we create and encourage initiatives that move us towards sustainability. To further our objectives, we cooperate with other organizations who are working to safeguard and improve our environment for future generations. Our goals are: - To ensure human health and the health of our environment is protected.
- To have all levels of government adopt sustainability as their guiding principle.
- To ensure that the biodiversity of our native plants and animals is protected and enhanced.
- To ensure that development is ecologically responsible.
- To raise public awareness about local environmental issues and to foster citizen participation.
Call for Action To Protect The Region’s Natural Heritage System
It has come to our attention that making sure the Region’s Natural Heritage System is mapped (something staff were reluctant to do) isn’t enough to save the NHS. As it turns out under the Region’s Official Plan on NHS land that is currently zoned agricultural, a range of uses can continue to occur including the building of homes, quarries, utilities etc. Please click here to see Liz's letter to Regional Council and Staff. NHS land that is currently zoned Greenlands is also not adequately protected. The Region has been hearing from many developers who own farmland about what should happen to the NHS but they haven’t heard much from ordinary citizens. We need you to write them and let them know that you expect special policies to be developed for all Regional NHS land whether it is currently zoned urban, agricultural or greenlands that would preclude any uses that would destroy, diminish or impair the NHS’s core areas, buffers or linkages. The note can be as simple as that to be effective. This issue goes to Regional Council for a vote on June 24 so action must be taken now if we are to protect our Region’s natural heritage for current and future generations!
Invite us to speak to your school or community group
Dear Educators & Friends: If you are looking for engaging presentations to add to your lessons on the environment, science, civics, social studies or urban design, Oakvillegreen Conservation Association President Liz Benneian would be pleased to visit your classroom. Established in 2000, Oakvillegreen is a non-profit, non-partisan environmental organization advocating for policies and initiatives to make our community healthy and sustainable.
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