Rotary Club of Peterborough Funds Environmental Innovator Projects
/The Rotary Club of Peterborough awarded five environmental innovators with funding through its Rotary Environmental Innovators Fund (REIF) for proposed local projects at the McDonnel Activity Centre on Monday afternoon.
In its third year, REIF has already awarded more than $20 thousand dollars. Photo by David Tuan Bui.
The funding is for projects designed by environmental entrepreneurs that advance local environmental innovators working in biodiversity, water and wastewater technologies, climate change, sustainable living, pollution, waste disposal and more.
The following were the funding recipients:
$3,000 Top Awards:
Wildrock Outfitters / Kawartha Land Trust – Native Plant Horticulture for Invasive Species Control
Woodleigh Farms – Catching Carbon
Clean Energy Generation – Sanostrategy Wind Turbine Installation
$1,000 Runner-Up Awards:
Taproots for Tomorrow – Carbon-Positive Air-Prune Beds
Second Nature Studio – Plastic Waste to Purpose