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Revolutionizing Recycling with [Re] Waste: Transforming Waste Management for a Sustainable Future
[Re] Waste is here to change the way companies handle their plastic waste and reduce how much plastic ends up in landfills and our environment. They do more than just recycle and reduce waste, they redirect plastic waste from landfills and create new, usable products from recycled plastic flakes! In 2022 alone, [Re] Waste diverted…
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Highfield Regenerative Farm: Growing an alternative food community on a foundation of healthy soil
Highfield Regenerative Farm (HRF) is located on 15 acres in the heart of an industrial community in the city of Calgary. In partnership with the Compost Council of Canada and the City of Calgary, the HRF is transforming under-utilized industrial land into a vibrant and productive urban farm through soil revitalization, food production and community programming. The HRF…
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GreenLearning’s Eco 360 program: Transitioning to a circular economy for plastic waste!
GreenLearning’s Eco 360 program enables youth across Alberta and Canada to imagine a world without waste by closing the loop of a product’s life cycle and creating a circular economy. Eco 360 is one of GreenLearning’s most popular programs. The lessons and activities are both suitable for junior students (grades 4-8) and senior students in…
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Dirk and Nanja of The Barrelman Inc.: 25 years of protecting land and water through local action that inspires
For over 25 years Dirk and Nanja Struck of The Barrelman Inc have been converting food-grade barrels into high-quality rain barrels designed specifically to handle the fluctuating prairie climate. The Barrelman Inc. started when Dirk Struck noticed food-grade plastic barrels from his work were going into the landfill after. In the 90s, when Dirk was…
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The City of Calgary’s Willow Plantation for Marginal Land Improvement and Carbon Capture
The City of Calgary’s biosolids demonstration project began in 2013 with a goal to assess the potential to improve Alberta’s arable land base through the beneficial reuse of biosolids recovered from leading-edge wastewater treatment processes. The City’s Wastewater Treatment Operational Performance Team worked closely with project consultant SYLVIS Environmental’s Biosolids Management Team and a private…
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Ecoplast Solutions: Building Houses from Recycled Plastic Bottles
Ecoplast manufactures building materials made from 100% recycled plastic bottles and uses the product to design and build high-performance dwellings. This revolutionary green building technology provides a sustainable solution that enables circular economics in the highly wasteful construction industry. Depending on its size, one Ecoplast dwelling upcycles between 600,000 and 2 million plastic bottles and…
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Nose Creek Watershed Partnership – Celebrating 25-Years of Watershed Planning, Policy and Action
The Nose Creek Watershed Partnership (NWCP) was formed in 1998 to protect riparian areas and manage streamflows in the Nose Creek watershed to mitigate the impacts of flood and drought and improve water quality for water users and aquatic life. The NCWP has positively impacted the environment and continues to build resiliency through watershed-scale collaboration,…
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Bow Valley Green Energy Cooperative, empowering community to transform Alberta’s energy
Bow Valley Green Energy Coop (BVGEC) is a grassroots, volunteer-run organization that is facilitating the creation of community-owned renewable energy generation projects in the Bow Valley and beyond. Their mission is to empower their community to reduce its environmental impact by pooling human and financial resources to foster the development of renewable energy projects, and…
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Evergreen Theatre: A 32 Year Legacy of Inspiring Environmental Awareness & Action Through the Arts
Evergreen Theatre is a non-profit charitable organization which provides programming for youth, primarily within the school system throughout Alberta, aimed at inspiring environmental awareness and action through the medium of theatre. We perform environmentally-inspired original musical shows in elementary schools. These theatrical performances engage children from Grades K-6, with opportunities for students to perform in…
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Project Forest: Rewilding Canada, One Forest at a Time
Project Forest is rewilding Canada, one forest at a time. They are a nonprofit organization working in partnership with conservation groups, Indigenous communities and like-minded businesses to capture carbon naturally by transitioning non-productive agricultural land into forever forests. They’re passionate about creating positive change in our community by planting not just trees—but species-rich forests—that clean…
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