members e-news

[Kathie Brosemer <kathie@cleannorth.org>]

Members e-news


1.	Mark, our intrepid editor, is seeking submissions for the summer
edition of your paper newsletter.  Got any interesting tidbits to
share?  Found any green products you want to review?  Green jokes,
quotes, poetry?  Planning a picnic?  Let Mark know at tellall@ssm.ca.  

2.	The Green Garden Tour is scheduled for July 7th.  It promises to be a
great time, with seven wonderful gardens demonstrating various
techniques of organic gardening.  Tickets are $5 and include your very
own package called the Pesticide Free Naturally Action Kit. 

3.	The Climate Change Caravan will be visiting here on July 15 &16.  A
group of hearty bicyclists and their vegetable-oil-powered van on a tour
all across Canada, they started in BC and we'll be very near their
halfway mark.  They're doing this to promote alternatives in
transportation, and to let people know how serious the Climate Change
problem is, and how the continental energy policy will let us all down. 
Right now we're not too sure what we're going to do while they're here,
but the Sault Cycling Club has some ideas, and a supper and slide show
will be part of it for sure.  If you have any ideas, email
lisa@cleannorth.org.

4.	Summer students have descended upon us.  Clean North has two
students, Naturally Green has three, and the Voyageur Trail Association
has one, all in the Clean North/NG office on Queen Street.  This year
promises to be a great one, as these energetic young people make
progress on a number of issues we've been plugging away at.  Here's the
rundown:
	
Composting Educator Julie Richards is working on a display for one of
the gardens on the Green Garden Tour, and will try to perk up our Master
Composter program.  She's also giving composting presentations to day
camps in the Sault and area.

Household Special Waste Educator Chris Peredun is working now on getting
a manual together for our computer recycling event, so that we can share
our success with other groups in other communities.  Plus, he has plans
to work with YSC participants on a mural project to promote paint reuse,
and some follow up to the button battery recycling project and a Battery
Round Up to take place in schools in September and October.

Pesticide Alternatives person Emily D'Amato is working very hard to get
the Green Garden Tour off the ground this year.  She put a wonderful
window display together and is going visiting the gardens and recruiting
volunteers to help with that.  When that's over she will work with our
committee on the Green Gloves organic garden award (part of City
Beautification), and is working with Julie on the presentations to day
camp children.

Two young women share the jobs of EnerGuide for Houses marketing
specialist, and Sustainable Transportation promoter.  Lisa Hollingshead
and Lauren Amin are working on the organizing for the Climate Change
Caravan visit, meeting with city transit officials and union organizers
to promote transit ridership, helping with start up of the Community
Bicycle Workshop, and working with the renovation chair of the Sault and
District Home Builders Association on promoting the EnerGuide and
healthy housing.  We hope to work with Shaw Cable on a short documentary
about the EnerGuide.  

All this activity is housed in the Imagination Station, so playshops are
not happening this summer.  But if you want to come in and shop, that's
still on, so let us know.

And, if you have any ideas to share with any of these youth, let us
know!  Email lisa, lauren, julie, emily, or cp @cleannorth.org.  They're
all on line on our network.



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