Random Acts of Green is Scaring Away Climate Anxiety With HalloGreen Challenge

Random Acts of Green is inviting the public to make lifestyle ‘s-witches’ and scare away climate change with their HalloGreen Challenge.

Photo courtesy of Random Acts of Green.

The HalloGreen Challenge is designed to help educate the public on different things they can do during the month of October to lessen their individual impact on the environment.

Participants take a pledge, then are challenged to escape the ‘Wicked Green Witch’s Lair’ by completing 15 challenges.

The challenges range in difficulty, from buying fruits and vegetables without plastic to writing a letter about the environment to a politician.

Photo courtesy of Random Acts of Green.

“Kids lead the challenge sometimes, but we have lots of adults and even businesses that want to participate to show their support,” said Jessica Correa, CEO Random Acts of Green.

This year marks the sixth year of the HalloGreen Challenge.

“It’s arguably our most popular challenge of the year,” said Correa. “Everyone has Earth Month which is very popular, but throughout the rest of the year people start forgetting about the planet and HalloGreen brings it back into the forefront.”

Since it’s inauguration in Peterborough, the HalloGreen Challenge has spread to places like Quebec and even Mexico. This year the challenge was translated to French and Spanish.

“These actions are meant to inspire people to start with one thing and then have that one thing spill off into multiple other things that they could be doing to help the environment.”

Random Acts of Green is a social enterprise, that began in Peterborough, with a vision to build a glocal (global + local) climate action community where everyone is empowered to take action together and promote environmental sustainability.

To take the pledge and participate in the HalloGreen Challenge click here.

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Recycle Your Old Mattresses, Electronics & Such At Waste Facility This Friday For Environment Day

The City and County of Peterborough are joining together to host an Environment Day this Friday (October 19th) from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. at the Peterborough Waste Management Facility (Landfill), located at 1260 Bensfort Road.

You can recycle carpet, mattresses, patio furniture, laundry baskets, kiddie pools and more. It will all get recycled at no charge to you.

You may also bring along your used electronics—such as computers, televisions and personal electronic devices—and any scrap metal items, including small appliances and power tools, metal hangers, pots and pans and more.

Tours of the landfill site will also be available for this day only. Click here for more deets.

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Recycling Event Being Held This Saturday At Evinrude Centre Parking Lot

This Saturday, May 12th, Environment Day is taking place in the parking lot of the Evinrude Centre from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Hosted by the City of Peterborough, it's a great opportunity to recycle those big items you just weren't sure where to take, such as used electronics, large plastic and scrap metal items.  

[Contributed by PtboCanada's Julie Morris]

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