EcoFriendly Sask Action Grants

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EcoFriendly Sask Action Grants Supporting environmental initiatives in Saskatchewan

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EcoFriendly Sask Action Grants

Supporting environmental initiatives in Saskatchewan

It’s easy to feel hopeless in the face of climate change and pollution

But individuals can make a difference

“Be the change you want to see in the world”

Mahatma Gandhi

EcoFriendly Sask provides small grants of up to $500 to support local environmental initiatives

CISV Saskatoon Youth Camp 2013

Here are just a few of the projects we’ve sponsored in the last two years

Plastic Smart Saskatoon

– riverbank clean-ups, recycling, educational events

Dish It Up, Grade 8 Experiential Program, Dr. J.G. Egnatoff School

– reusable dishware for healthy school lunches without waste

Troutreach Saskatchewan- fisheries research and public education

Meadow Lake Junior Forest Wardens- Pagan Lake Park clean-up (signs, trails, bird/bat boxes)

School Gardens- Carlyle Elementary School, Sutherland School, Rosemont Community School

Saskatoon Bike Valet- bicycle parking at the Civic Pancake Breakfast and the Saskatoon Fringe Festival

Delila Jahn-True- reading from her book, Advice Between Kingdoms: How the Hays Moved Trash Mountain, a children’s book about rural waste and recycling

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your

one wild and precious life?”Mary Oliver

EcoFriendly Sask strives to inform, encourage and support local environmental initiatives

Photo credits (slides 1, 2, 3, 4, 14): http://www.flickr.com/photos/apmckinlay/

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