Water and Your Place of Worship: Free Webinar.

Many communities are using innovative ways to protect their buildings and properties from water damage while reducing their impact on the environment. Green Communities Canada and its members have developed a suite of resources and initiatives that support individual residents, churches, schools and businesses to make changes to land and buildings, to protect them from increased rainfall events while protecting the health of our waterways.

Join us for an online webinar on November 18 at 1:30 EST to learn what other communities are doing to protect their place of worship while helping to restore the urban water cycle. Hosted in partnership by Faith and the Common Good (greeningsacredspaces.net) and RAIN Community Solutions (raincommunitysolutions.ca).

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Food and Water for Our Planet

Westdale United Church,May 24th- A small but eager group attended the Food And Water For Our Planet event Sunday evening. We learned how to use faith grounds to feed the hungry and construct our own rain barrels.

Westdale United Church has been running a vegetable garden since 1992. The produce goes directly to Wesley Centre Kitchen to feed the hungry.
Coordinators, Loueen Madill and her son Stephen gave a presentation followed by a tour of the garden (tomatoes and green peppers).
Writer and environmentalist, Sean Burak demonstrated how to construct our own rain barrels. Sean is passionate about water conservation and is generous about donating his time to give workshops on rain barrel making. He donated this one to the Westdale Untied Church community. He also sells excellent ready made rain barrels.