Archive for July, 2012
Mid-summer bulletin July 25, 2012
Click here for the July 25, 2012 edition of our bulletin. The next bulletin will be published on August 15, 2012.
Guide to Urban Trees
To help people select, plant and care for native trees and shrubs, Oakvillegreen has produced a new brochure. The pdf version of Trees: A guide to selecting, planting and caring for trees, is available on the Oakvillegreen website. The …
Great Lakes Guardian Community Fund
The Province of Ontario is launching a new initiative to help communities protect their part of the Great Lakes.
The Great Lakes Guardian Community Fund provides grants to community groups for grassroots activities such as cleaning up a beach or …
Halton Active Transportation Plan
Halton Region has launched new pages on its website to gather feedback from residents about opportunities to improve people-powered travel throughout the Region.
The first Regional Active Transportation Plan will help connect communities, making it easier for people to walk, bike …
HEN and friends

HEN staffed a booth at the Milton Farmers' Market on Sat. July 14 and at Downtown Burlington's Car Free …
HEN Bulletin July 11, 2012
Click here for the July 11, 2012 edition of our bulletin. The next bulletin will be published on July 25, 2012.
Oakville air quality has improved
Oakville's air quality has improved since 2004. Between 2004 and 2010, Oakville's particulate matter (PM) 2.5 levels dropped by 33 per cent.
The improvement is mainly due to reduced emissions by the industrial sector. Only small reductions were seen in the …
Oakville aims for substantial increase in transit use
Oakville Planning & Development Council has approved in principle the new Transportation Master Plan, Switching Gears, which works toward an increase in modal share for public transit to 20 percent in 2031 from the current 6 percent. The condition put …


