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Healthy environment a right: Councillors

Recorder & Times / Ronald Zajac / 03 April 2019

Brockville council will vote next week on a motion declaring “the right to a healthy environment.”

Members of council’s planning and operations committee on Tuesday unanimously backed Coun. Cameron Wales’s motion to adopt the declaration put forward by the David Suzuki Foundation’s “Blue Dot” movement.

The full council is expected to put the declaration to a final vote next Tuesday.

The Blue Dot movement website describes it as “a national grassroots campaign based on the idea that everyone in Canada deserves the right to a healthy environment, including clean air and water, and a say in decisions that affect our health and well-being.”

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Brockville’s Active Transportation plan invites your input

City of Brockville / Matthew Locke

The Social Pinpoint engagement site for the Brockville Active Transportation Plan invites your input:

1. Browse the concept tab for ideas about different active transportation facilities and terminology.

2. Drag and drop pins onto the map to tell us your active transportation experiences in Brockville (walking, cycling, etc).The map shows existing active transportation facilities and previously proposed trails.

3. Complete the survey questions in the sidebar tab.

To provide your input and for more information, please visit the project webpage at https://brockville.com/activetransportation. The online engagement for this phase of the project will close in mid-March 2019.

Kingston’s climate change strategy is number one in country

TVO Current Affairs / David Rockne Corrigan / 14 December 2018

The municipality that has billed itself as “Canada’s most sustainable city” since 2009 now has some solid evidence to back up the claim.

The November issue of the journal Climatic Change contains a ranking of the climate-change plans of 63 Canadian municipalities — and Kingston comes out on top.

Plans were evaluated based on eight criteria, including how a community sets its climate goals, how effective those goals are, and how it measures and achieves progress.

Municipalities are the “most vulnerable” of all levels of government when it comes to climate change, explains lead author Dave Guyadeen, of the University of Guelph, because they face the most immediate impacts. ”So we wanted to know how they are responding to it,” he says.

So what lessons can Kingston offer other municipalities trying to come up with or improve climate-change plans?

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Student confident tiny home will keep mom warm

CBC News / 02 December 2018

The tiny house tucked away just outside the architecture school at Carleton University in Ottawa — and recently featured on HGTV — occupies just 180 square feet.

Its exterior is scale-like, with overlapping diamond-shaped shingles that look like they’re made of aluminum.

Inside, there’s a full-size shower, a full-size sink, a bed that comes out of the ceiling with the touch of a button, and a more traditional pull-out couch.

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Another downtown charging station

Gord McFarlane / 20 November 2018

The EV charging station at The New Oak Tree, 28 King St Brockville, is now fully operational. Use your EVduty app on your smart phone to activate the charger. Level 2, 240V, 30A. Enjoy Downtown Brockville while your EV is charging.

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Volunteer opportunity: Brockville Cycling Advisory Committee

Active Brockville / 24 November 2018

Are you interested in helping Brockville become bike friendly as directed in the Official Plan and Sustainability and other plans, and as endorsed by Council in the Healthy Communities Vision? If so, the Brockville Cycling Advisory Committee is seeking new members.

Applicants will have a sincere interest in furthering the City’s objectives as described in the Official Plan, to be willing to work collaboratively, engage productively and understand evidence-based approaches. Interest or experience in any of the following would be helpful: outreach/education, transportation engineering and facility design, policy review and development, public health trends, cycle tourism, event organization, research and reporting.

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