HALTON ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK
Programs
Providing Climate Change Education and Resources in the Community of Halton since 2004
Halton Food educates residents in Halton Region about sustainable food production and promotes access to local, healthy culturally-relevant food through sustainable community gardening, urban farming and school gardens. Halton Food supports a range of food gardens at different sites across Halton Region: Halton Community Housing sites, partner community organizations, and gardens in public spaces. Produce grown at these sites is harvested and shared by the community, and donated to community food security organizations. Halton Food also delivers presentations in partnership with other community organizations about food garden topics, such as container gardening, seed saving, and composting.
Generation Green is designed “by-youth, for-youth”. It is a multi-faceted program that is delivered throughout the school year with the help of engaged and inspired Halton students. This program teaches students creative and practical strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, how to measure and track their GHG, and how to encourage the community to do the same. Generation Green empowers Halton Youth to become climate leaders in the community!
This conference is an exclusive event and open to all Halton District School Board Students from Grade 7 to Grade 12.
OakvilleReady creates a resiliency hub network that engages diverse community stakeholders to increase their resiliency, community capacity, and understanding around how residents can work together to support each other during extreme weather events. An initial 7 neighbourhood extreme weather resiliency hubs were established in 2019. These hubs are located in Faith-Based Organizations, which act as engagement and care anchors. Neighbours helping Neighbours is the call to action for the OakvilleReady program.
OakvilleReady is a partnership with team members from Town of Oakville, Halton Environmental Network, Faith & the Common Good and local communities, including our pilot OakvilleReady Hub locations.
Waste Diversion
The Halton Environmental Network facilitates an impactful Waste Diversion program for community events. We recruit & train volunteers to educate the public and assist with waste sorting to keep recyclable and compostable materials out of landfills. We work alongside the Halton Region to ensure events use sustainable waste practices.
Halton Community
Climate Plan
To propel community involvement, Halton Environmental Network (HEN) has partnered with the Halton Region to support the development of a Community Climate Plan. This work advances Halton Region’s participation in the Partners for Climate Protection (PCP) program.
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Partners for Climate Protection is a Canada-wide program that guides municipalities through a five-step Milestone Framework to help them take action on climate change. The Partners for Climate Protection network is made up of over 500+ members from across the country.
Depave Paradise, a program developed by Green Communities Canada (GCC), removes impermeable surfaces such as asphalt, and replaces it with native species gardens.
Halton Environmental Network (HEN) is a designated Depave Paradise facilitator, and can help depave Halton!
Greening Sacred Spaces (GSS) assists faith communities in Halton and Peel Regions in creating more sustainable and environmentally-friendly places of worship through education, capacity building and supporting concrete action in the community. GSS Halton-Peel is a program of HEN and a chapter of Faith and the Common Good.
