Category Archive for: ‘Recycling’
You have to Experience Shopping at Ingredients Organic Market and Cafe in Victoria!
If you haven’t had the pleasure of shopping at Ingredients Organic Market, you need to give it a try. The store has a wonderful community, small town feeling and yet it is filled with over 450 bulk organic ingredients, organic dairy and meat products, superfoods …
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Staples Recycling Program Includes Pens!
Ever wonder what to do with old pens, highlighters, sharpie markers? Staples will take them and turn them into something new! It’s just one more item that they have added to the recycle list. They also take back for recycle, batteries, cell phones and beverage containers. …
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British Columbia’s Recycling Handbook
I love to recycle everything possible, but sometimes it can be so confusing as to where everything goes! Check out British Columbia’s Recycling Handbook. It is a guide to what can be recycled under “BC’s Stewardship Programs” (beverage containers, beer containers, electronics, cell phones, electronic …
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The Green Resolution Revolution
The article below is written by Nathan Ladin, freelance fitness writer with Slimband and a lover of all things green. Nate loves to promote health awareness and believes that part of the secret to healthy living is cultivating a healthy environment. Remember when caring about …
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Because We Can – Update
Past Theme – Towels – 125 towels and 24 tea towels (not to mention face cloths) were collected and delivered to 1Up Single Parent Resources Centre and Blanshard Community Association – see photo attached. Thanks Joanne for organizing and everyone for collecting, donating and delivering. …
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Because We Can and yoUnlimited Collect Shoes!
Thanks to yoUnlimited in July for starting our shoe collection! This months theme was SHOES! Because We Can ended up with over 131 pairs of shoes to be distributed to Blanshard Community Association and 1Up Single Parent Resource Center. Thanks to everyone in the group …
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Victoria – City of Gardens was once a City of Garbage
I was recently accepted to be a part of a Public and Technical Advisory Committee with the CRD, working towards a new Integrated Solid Waste and Resource Management Plan. I am a volunteer and so excited to be involved! My Dad (Reg Barnett) worked in …
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Because We Can
Another successful “theme” of collecting gently used jeans. 89 pairs in all were collected and delivered to the Victoria 1Up Single Parent Resource Center. Thanks so much to everyone that contributed and collected from family and friends and to Doreen and Diane for coordinating and …
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Tap Into Sustainability – CRD – Quality of our Tap Water
I attending the “Creatively United for the Planet Festival” today. It including great exhibits from local companies and environmental charities that are doing amazing work on Vancouver Island. The CRD was handing out stainless steel water bottles and they had a filling station that was …
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Because We Can!
I met with an incredible group of people that shared a similar vision about helping out in our local community. We contacted the 1Up Single Parent Resource Center and the Blanshard Community Association and they met with us to provide us with on-the-ground information about …
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