Events
Are you looking for ways to celebrate Earth Day this year? Join us Sunday, April 21st at The Spire with excellent speakers, like world expert cave diver, Jill Heinerth and a fun interactive celebration!
Join us for Spring Pitch-In 2024, happening April 9-14! Let’s keep Kingston clean together and make a difference in our community!
Join us on January 29th, 1-5pm for a transformation journey into the balance of climate action at the Grand Theatre! Let’s unite for a sustainable future at the Climate Change Symposium.
Sustainable Kingston invites you to join us on Wednesday, September 13th, at Springer Market Square for the Sustainable Kingston Awards. Help us honour the sustainability champions in our community at this free event. Featuring live music and local food.
In collaboration with the Kingston Frontenac Housing Corporation, Sustainable Kingston will be installing a rain garden at 645 Brock Street. Email geoff@sustainablekingston.com to volunteer!
ArtFest Kingston takes place July 1-3 in beautiful City Park! The event includes 150+ artists exhibiting paintings, pottery, woodcraft, glass art, metal arts, jewellery, clothing, gourmet food, bodycare, candles, and more. ArtFest activities will take place for all ages and is guaranteed to be a memorable weekend.
Home Energy Coach, Wes Kerr discusses sustainable energy practises for more energy efficient ways to run your home! Hosted at Kingston Frontenac Public Library.
Click the QR Code and sign-up to be a community activist in the water (diver, snorkeler, paddler or swimmer) or on-shore.
Or come by on June 10 for a day by the water. Take action and discover the threats faced by our Great Lakes, the work being done to protect them and the importance of preserving them.
Sustainable Kingston, with support from community and institutional partners, is thrilled to announce the Commuter Challenge is returning to Kingston this June.
Held June 4-10, the Commuter Challenge is an annual, national campaign designed to
encourage Canadians to walk, cycle, carpool/ride-share, take transit and telecommute. It
coincides with Kingston Cycling Week, an event Sustainable Kingston is also supporting.
Sustainable Kingston wants to challenge people in Kingston who currently commute by car to ‘test drive’ active transportation or transit for one week.
To sign up your workplace:
1. Choose a workplace ambassador.
2. Register your workplace at commuterchallenge.ca.
3. Encourage your colleagues to register under your workplace/organization profile
on commuterchallenge.ca.
4. From June 4 to 10, log your sustainable commute on commuterchallenge.ca.
Your colleagues do the same on their own.
“There are so many great reasons to bike, walk or take transit to school or work.” Explains Geoff Hendry, COO of Sustainable Kingston. “In addition to being one of the most impactful things you can do to address the climate crisis, you’ll save money and feel healthier.”
In 2022, Kingston Commuter Challenge’s 288 participants logged 152,039 KM of sustainable
commuting. This avoided 8,929 KG’s of C02 emissions, saved 4,072 litres of fuel, and burned
673,682 calories.
For more information about how your organization can participate, please contact Geoff
Hendry, COO of Sustainable Kingston, at geoff@sustainablekingston.com.
JOIN moderator Dan Hendry with Kingston Frontenac Public Library, Sustainable Kingston, and community friends as we present Dr. Jonathan Foley, Executive Director of Project Drawdown, the world's leading resource for climate solutions.
Project Drawdown offers hope, help and a plan to become future-ready TODAY. Dr. Foley is a renowned climate scientist, sustainability expert, and educator, and his work focuses on finding solutions to sustain the climate, ecosystems, and natural resources we all depend on. He will welcome questions on what we can do today following his talk.
To register, please visit: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hysj_IqIQjmZ07La362cCQ#/registration
On Jan. 19, 2023, join us at the 2023 Kingston Climate Change Symposium and hear from an incredible line-up of speakers, from across Canada. This year, we welcome former Minister of the Environment and Climate Change The Hon. Catherine McKenna, FoodShare Toronto and anti-poverty expert Paul Taylor, and broadcaster Ali Hassan as our host. More speakers will be announced, closer to the date.
All are welcome to Sustainable Kingston’s Annual General Meeting. This meeting is taking place online. Please register at the link below for the meeting link.
To register, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/sustainable-kingston-2022-annual-general-meeting-tickets-478238733927
Let us help you calculate the amount of incentive available for your specific upgrades.
Join us at Springer Market Square on Wednesday, October 12th between 3:00pm - 5:00pm for the 2022 Sustainable Kingston Awards. We’ll be honouring contributions to the community, enjoying hot apple cider and live music. This event is free to the public.
informal meet-up for those working in the sustainability space: non-profits, academia, students, government, and business. All are welcome.
Sustainable Kingston and Divemasters Jason Guindon and Andrew Baker, as well as local dive shop, Explorer Diving, are teaming up to present the 2022 Underwater Pitch-IN. Taking place on Sunday, August 28th at 10:00 am at Breakwater Park in Kingston, the event is one-day, volunteer-driven, underwater waste clean-up. The waste that is recovered will be sorted into bins by volunteers working on the shore.
Let us help you calculate the amount of incentive available for your specific upgrades.
A moderated discussion about trends in urban planning and how we can work together to make commuting more sustainable.
The Wolfe Island Commons envisions the entire waterfront pier as green space, where community comes together to celebrate and enjoy the natural beauty of the island. This Depave project is our first big step to achieving this goal.
Sustainable Kingston, with support from a volunteer committee comprised of community and institutional partners, is thrilled to announce the Commuter Challenge is returning to Kingston this June.
Held June 5-11, the Commuter Challenge is an annual, national campaign designed to encourage Canadians to walk, cycle, carpool/ride-share, take transit and telecommute. It coincides with Canadian Environment Week.
An online seminar, presented by Cycle Kingston's Hal Cain, on how to safely commute by bicycle in Kingston.
Hey cyclists! We're excited to partner with Kingston Community Health Centres on the Weller Avenue Roll-in Breakfast in celebration of #CyclingWeek. Wednesday, June 1. 7:30 - 9:30 am. Don't miss it.
If you've completed an Energy Evaluation with Sustainable Kingston or Red Squirrel Conservation Services, you have received a Renovation Upgrade Report (RUR) detailing upgrade options. In this webinar, we will go through a sample Renovation Upgrade Report (RUR) and help you calculate the amount of incentive available for specific upgrades. The presentation will be 30 minutes long with an additional 30 min for questions and answers. Don't miss it!
Join us in the discussion with Seth Klein on how Canada can respond to the climate emergency where Seth outlines how employment concerns and climate change can be aligned. It is not an either/or choice. Mobilization to a worldwide pandemic has demonstrated that leadership, joint effort and investment by government, industry, media and citizenry is possible. In the face of a climate emergency, Seth Klein draws analogies from historical wartime mobilization to retool our economy in the space of a few years, improving health outcomes while reducing social inequality. If not now, when?
Joni us for an online webinar to learn about the benefits of removing paved surfaces and replacing them with green space!
The Wolfe Island Commons envisions the entire waterfront pier as green space, where community comes together to celebrate and enjoy the natural beauty of the island. This Depave project is our first big step to achieving this goal.
Richard Laszlo, founder of Laszlo Energy Services (LES), and partner, Tim Short, with more than forty years of collective experience in the energy sector, will be speaking to folks in Kingston and surrounding areas about the fundamentals of heat pumps and in particular about how an elegantly simple integrated design within people’s homes can very cost-effectively and conveniently eliminate a substantial portion of a home’s carbon emissions. Please join Sustainable Kingston and its members to learn from Richard and Tim about this very exciting initiative whose message they are currently delivering to communities throughout southern Ontario.
Sustainable Kingston, in cooperation with the City of Kingston’s Solid Waste and Public Works departments, are thrilled to announce that Pitch-In will be returning this spring. Taking place over the week of April 17 – 23, and coinciding with Earth Day on April 22, Pitch-In will engage hundreds of volunteers in a community-wide clean-up.
Set to open in April, Better Homes Kingston is a property loan program that will help owners of single-family homes realize energy-saving retrofits. It will achieve this by giving eligible individuals access to a no-interest loan, re-payable over a period of up to 20 years. The webinar will be presented by Julie Salter-Keane, Manager of the City’s Climate Leadership Division. “Home retrofits are an important climate action and just one more way the City of Kingston is demonstrating leadership on climate action,” says Salter-Keane. Not only is the program good for the local industry and homeowners, it’s also good for our environment. “A more energy-efficient home will increase comfort, affordability, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” says Salter-Keane.
Sponsored by Drake’s Landscaping and Utilities Kingston.
Urban Development has resulted in large areas of impermeable surfaces, leading to poor water quality and erosion, as well as drying of the creeks during droughts. Techniques will be discussed to aid in infiltrating rainwater into the soil while beautifying your landscapes and allowing a more unusual palette of plants to be used. Rain Gardens can be a beautiful addition to any yard and allow the planting of some truly interesting plants. They also
help the environment by infiltrating water to clean it and restore the water table and base-flow (the water that seeps through the ground to our creeks). We’ll cover how to design and build a rain garden including placement, construction, and plant choices.
To register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/x/rain-garden-webinar-featuring-sean-james-what-to-do-in-a-downpour-tickets-291420304977
The Small Business Lighting program offers Ontario Small Businesses up to $2000 in free lighting upgrades. Tune in to our webinar to learn about upgrade opportunities for your business, eligibility and how the program can help save you money every month on your electricity bill while transforming your space. Save money now and in the long run with energy-efficient lighting incentives!
Register here: https://small-business-lighting.eventbrite.ca
