Programs & Initiatives
Halton Food educates residents in Halton Region about sustainable food production and promotes access to local, healthy culturally-relevant food through sustainable community gardening, urban farming and school gardens. Halton Food supports a range of food gardens at different sites across Halton Region: Halton Community Housing sites, partner community organizations, and gardens in public spaces. Produce grown at these sites is harvested and shared by the community, and donated to community food security organizations. Halton Food also delivers presentations in partnership with other community organizations about food garden topics, such as container gardening, seed saving, and composting.
OakvilleReady creates a resiliency hub network that engages diverse community stakeholders to increase their resiliency, community capacity, and understanding around how residents can work together to support each other during extreme weather events. An initial 7 neighbourhood extreme weather resiliency hubs were established in 2019. These hubs are located in Faith-Based Organizations, which act as engagement and care anchors. Neighbours helping Neighbours is the call to action for the OakvilleReady program.
OakvilleReady is a partnership with team members from Town of Oakville, Halton Environmental Network, Faith & the Common Good and local communities, including our pilot OakvilleReady Hub locations.
Generation Green is designed “by-youth, for-youth”. It is a multi-faceted program that is delivered throughout the school year with the help of engaged and inspired Halton students. This program teaches students creative and practical strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, how to measure and track their GHG, and how to encourage the community to do the same. Generation Green empowers Halton Youth to become climate leaders in the community!
This conference is an exclusive event and open to all Halton District School Board Students from Grade 7 to Grade 12.
Event Waste Diversion
The Halton Environmental Network facilitates an impactful Waste Diversion program for community events. We recruit & train volunteers to educate the public and assist with waste sorting to keep recyclable and compostable materials out of landfills. We work alongside the Halton Region to ensure events use sustainable waste practices.
The Halton Climate Collective (HCC) is comprised of environmental leaders from: Halton Region, Town of Oakville, Town of Halton Hills, Town of Milton, City of Burlington, Halton District School Board, Halton Catholic District School Board, Conservation Halton, University of Waterloo, Sheridan College and the Halton Environmental Network.
The HCC leadership team work together to respond to the challenges of climate change to create a climate-resilient, low-carbon Halton community.
Depave Paradise, a program developed by Green Communities Canada (GCC), removes impermeable surfaces such as asphalt, and replaces it with native species gardens.
Halton Environmental Network (HEN) is a designated Depave Paradise facilitator, and can help depave Halton!