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Energy Conservation
- Natural Resources Canada offers property owners grants for improving the energy efficiency of their homes and reducing their home’s impact on the environment.
- Utilize the electricity calculator to measure how much electricity you currently consume at home. Use this information to come up with a plan to reduce!
- Switch to Green Energy. Bullfrog Power is Canada’s leading 100% green electricity provider. Bullfrog Power is the only company providing a 100% low-impact renewable electricity choice to everyone in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia.
Sustainable Transportation
- EcoDriver is a community-based social marketing program that is delivered in a friendly, driver-to-driver format. The program promotes fuel-saving options through three core messages: drive fuel-efficiently, buy fuel efficiently and drive less. Become an EcoDriver today!
- Retire Your Ride is an initiative of The Government of Canada, Clean Air Foundation and its partners, designed to enable people to get their high-polluting cars off the road and reward them for doing so. The dispose of your old inefficient vehicle in a environmentally responsible manner.
- Utilize the idling calculator to measure how much time you spend idling and what impact it has on the environment. .
Waste Reduction
- Do what you can.ca is designed to help you find places to drop-off household hazardous and special wastes and unwanted electronics that can’t be put in your Blue.
- Waste Reduction Week aims to inform and engage Canadians about the environmental and social ramifications of wasteful practices. It strives to educate, engage and empower Canadians to reduce, reuse and recycle waste.
- For local Durham Region waste management and reduction information, visit www.durhamregionwaste.ca.
Water Conservation
- Water supplies are not endless. Everyone can play a part, at home, at school or in the community, to protect and to conserve our water. Check out these water conservation tips.
- Utilize the water calculator to measure how much water you currently consume at home. Use this information to come up with a plan to conserve!
- Check out local Durham Region water conservation and efficiency information.