Environmental Workshops
What motivates your faith community to be more environmental? We invite you to meet with our team to design or request a workshop from a variety of topics wthat interest and educate your community. We can plan hands-on workshops for all ages and types of groups in your faith community (i.e. youth group, green teams, seniors club, women’s group, etc.), show environmental films, take part in table-talks and events, and arrange guest speakers for small to large groups. We can target programming to your place of worship (for example, gardening on the faith property) or for individuals to take what they have learned and apply it at home, school or in the workplace.
Our current workshops include:
Gardening
We can help tidy or transform existing gardens or consult in the creation of a plan for a new garden. These workshops involve hands-on activities and can be done in the garden of the faith property or in a classroom setting with materials that can be taken home to personal gardens. Some of the topics we cover are:
- Creating a garden: assessing space, planning your plants and creating a planting schedule
- Vermicomposting: Creating an indoor composter using worms
- Native species: How to choose the right plants for your green space
- Self-Irrigating Planters (SIPs): starting a handheld garden of microgreens in recycled milk cartons using bits of old t-shirts
- Seeds: learning about native seeds, seed libraries and making seed balls or seed spheres to disperse in local habitats or at home
Food Waste
Save money and the planet by putting an end to food waste! Learn the impact of food waste on the environment and learn how to preserve food (freeze herbs, preserve food in jar, make jams, and more). Check out Food Loss and Waste Infographic as well as Halton Food for more tips and tricks on how to reduce food waste.
Depave Paradise
Bring your own popcorn bowl and sit back as we present a film to help you understand environmental issues, followed by a group activity or discussion. We offer a variety of topics and titles. Note: there may be a nominal cost to secure the rights to show the film.
Eco Films
Bring your own popcorn bowl and sit back as we present a film to help you understand environmental issues, followed by a group activity or discussion. We offer a variety of topics and titles. Note: there may be a nominal cost to secure the rights to show the film.
Guest Speakers
Are you organising an event in your faith community and would like someone to speak about an environmental topic? Let us know! We are available for speaking engagements around events such as Earth Day, World Water Day, World Oceans Day, International Day for Biological Diversity, or other events in your community where you would like to educate and inspire environmental stewardship!
Interested in another environmental topic?
We can design programming within GSS Halton-Peel or with the help of our various environmental partners in Halton and Peel regions that focuses on what motivates you to be more environmental and sustainable in your place of worship and within your faith community at large. We want to help!
To find out more about or workshops or to schedule a workshop in your faith community, email us at: gss@haltonenvironment.ca or call us at 905 815 6185 ex 2.