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Welcome to our collection of local news and stories! Our aim is to inform and inspire with the great work going on in this area.

Thanks to the Bluewater Association for Lifelong Learning for allowing us to showcase what we do.

Here's a video snippet from the intro, so you can get to know our volunteer board of directors a bit better.

Onward!

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Submitted by Sibylle Walke, and posted by The Sustainability Project

Dear neighbours,

This letter concerns the question: Does a native landscape cemetery for traditional burial have broad support in the community?

Several years ago I became interested in the idea of natural burial as a simple...

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Come visit us and support this new Community Garden at Ed Taylor Park on

Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 2pm

Thanks in part to City of Owen Sound, Medavie, United Way of Bruce Grey.

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A demonstration site for "regeneration" has now been nicely established in the back playground of Peninsula Shores District School (PSDS) in Wiarton, implemented by Regenerate Grey Bruce (RGB).

Envisioned by Thorsten Arnold and with the assistance of Greenbelt Foundation, Wiarton Rotary, TD Frie...

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Two very atypical tree-planting events are fast approaching.

Wiarton's Miyawaki "Tiny" Forest official unveiling will take place on Monday, Sept 18th at 930am where Regenerate Grey Bruce and The Sustainability Project present the new Miyawaki Tiny Forest and Bioswale to the media for the fir...

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the tiny forest

Regenerate Grey Bruce has been permitted and funded to install a newly-announced Miyawaki (Tiny) Forest in Wiarton in the backyard of the local school PSDS, replacing finely-manicured sod with a small, lush biodiversity hotspot. A Miyawaki forest has a recipe that takes advanta...

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Guest Post from Hil Coburn.

Happy Earth Day all ya’ll keepers of the Earth!

A big congrats to the Earth Day Grey Bruce volunteer committee on all their amazing work leading up to and throughout today! I am so excited to see where these Youth Community Climate Action Projects lead our reg...

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Saturday, April 22, 2023, is Earth Day - a day to come together around the protection of and appreciation for our environment. Last year, the Earth Day Celebration at the Owen Sound Farmers’ Market was attended by over 600 people. This year organizers are hoping it will be even bigger. And with p...

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Milkweed, Photo by Hagerty Ryan, USFWS on Pixnio

Georgian Bluffs, ON - A Greenbelt Foundation-funded project called Regenerate Grey Bruce (RGB) invites community members to participate in an emerging native plant value chain. RGB believes that “regeneration” is the action we can take together...

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Climate Action - Why There’s Hope

On Thursday, March 2nd, 2023, a remarkable event was held at the Harmony Center in downtown Owen Sound. While outside of the building everything was quiet, inside, there was an air of excitement and anticipation of what would transpire that day. Fifty students i...

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