The City of Niagara Falls is taking a proactive approach to reducing the impacts of a changing climate and extreme weather on the community’s built, social, natural, and economic systems by guiding the development of a Climate Change Adaptation Plan. The adaptation planning process is supported by ICLEI Canada and Read more…
The District Energy System (DES) electrification project will significantly reduce Brock’s carbon emissions by diversifying campus heat sources and reducing the use of natural gas in the DES. Scheduled to be completed by March 2025, the project will include the installation of an electric boiler, refurbishing several existing electric boilers. Read more…
The Brock University Seed Library offers free seeds to staff, students, and community members to “borrow” and plant in their home gardens. The cycle functions like a library where participants can borrow and return seeds free of cost. The goal of this Seed Library is to protect genetic diversity in Read more…
Working with the Grimsby Environmental Network and the Town of Grimsby to remove invasive species (done now with monitoring in effect), the planting of native plant gardens, and replanting native trees and shrubs. The first park project was the creation of the Val Fleming Butterfly Garden at the Roatary Park Read more…
Atura Power selected the Niagara Region as their first Ontario site for commercial-scale hydrogen production. The Niagara Hydrogen Centre will also be Ontario’s largest green hydrogen production facility, with a hydrogen production capacity of 20 MW, utilizing proton exchange membrane electrolysis technology to split water into hydrogen and oxygen molecules Read more…