Local Groups

Common Action for the Restoration of the Environment Stratford is a grassroots environmental group committed to thinking globally and acting locally. C.A.R.E. Stratford is best known for its Environmental Symposia featuring a dynamic group of keynote speakers including Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Dr. Roberta Bondar, Maude Barlow and Anita Stewart. In 2008, C.A.R.E. Stratford hosted Earth Day with Stephen Lewis, an event that will long be remembered in Stratford.

Beyond the Symposia, C.A.R.E. Stratford has hosted many workshops and film screenings as well as presented displays at community events - Stratford Garden Festival, Stratford Home Show and L.I.N.C. Parents Fair to name a few - to reach more members of our community.

Looking for ways to inform and inspire the community is only part of what C.A.R.E. Stratford does, its other key goal is to promote active engagement on environmental matters. River cleanups,
Yellow Fish Road painting, native gardening, are a few of the many ways C.A.R.E. Stratford brings community members together to restore the environment.

Informed action is the goal of C.A.R.E. Stratford. Dialogue and discussion of concerns with a commitment to finding strategies to move forward are key for C.A.R.E. Stratford. New members and new ideas are always welcome.

For a complete list of initiatives or for more information, please contact Kerry McManus at carestratford@cyg.net or (519) 273-9012.

CBEAC - Civic Beautification and Environmental Awareness Committee

To enhance the general beauty and pride of Stratford through education and promotion pertaining to the following areas:

• To serve as an "umbrella organization" co-ordinating efforts of many other organizations
  


• To foster enhanced community spirit
  


• Help educate Stratford's youth by way of seminars, projects and events
  


• To enhance Stratford's "green spaces"
  


• Environmental issues for Stratford
  


• Events which help to physically beautify Stratford
  


• Enhance Stratford's inherent culture and identity

GROUNDSWELL

Groundswell is a group of community volunteers who promote organic lawn and gardening principles and seek to educate the general public on the alternative ideas.

If you would like more information or would like to join this group please contact groundswellstratford@hotmail.com or for more information please see www.pesticidereform.ca/ or www.pesticidefree.ca/

PERTH COUNTY GREENWORKS

Mission statement: “To build sustainable communities through resources conservation, pollution prevention, and the adoption of ecologically sound practices in Perth County.” Perth County Greenworks is a Non-Profit Organization established to develop and implement projects which conserve energy and water, reduce waste, support green business opportunities, and educate and involve the citizens of Perth County.

"Building a green community …one household at a time."

Objects for which the corporation is incorporated are:

• For the betterment of the community to provide services that will result in more efficient and sustainable resource use, improvements to natural environment and associated economic benefits within the community.
  


• To operate one or more centres in Perth County, Ontario providing conferences, demonstration models, seminars, public meetings, distribution of information circulars, public spirited research all pertaining to conservation and environmental protection for the benefit of the general community.