Photo courtesy David Scott

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to install solar panels, xeriscape your yard, or bike to work? Local Lethbridgians share their stories of their day to day actions.

  • Environment Week: Saving Sweetgrass with Api’soomaahka

    Courtesy of local filmmaker Michael Bartz, learn how Kainai Knowledge Keeper Api’soomaahka is partnering with biotechnology scientists from Anandi’s Botanicals to return sweetgrass to local ecosystems.

  • Environment Week: Repair Ethic with Sjoerd Schaafsma

    With: Repair Cafe Participant, Sjoerd Schaafsma 1. Why do you ‘Dare to Repair’; (as I believe you’ve put it in the past)?     I hate seeing almost perfectly good items go into the dump all for lack of a bit of know-how or skill, or perhaps a simple part that can be manufactured with a…

  • Environment Week: Community Contributions with Chris Harvey

    Our next Enivironment Week profile is Environment Lethbridge Board Chair, Chris Harvey. 1. What is your role with Environment Lethbridge and how did you get involved? I am currently the Chair of the Environment Lethbridge Board of Directors. I got involved with EL a number of years ago when I was asked to participate on…

  • Environment Week: Sustainability with Shelby Zuback

    With: Executive Director of Lethbridge Public Interest Research Group, Shelby Zuback 1. What is your inspiration/motivation behind being an environmentalist? Honestly, it’s enjoyment. I love being outdoors – it’s where peace comes easiest and fascination abounds. It’s the same place where you can connect to something outside of yourself but still find yourself in the…

  • Environment Week: Living Cities with Daphne Hendsbee

    With: Living Cities Yards Waterwise 101 Participant, Daphne Hendsbee 1. How did the Living Cities Yards Waterwise 101 program fit into your life? (i.e. Why did it appeal to you?) I’ve been trying to learn and make waterwise choices for my yard since moving to Lethbridge in 2018. I had taken some horticulture courses online…

  • Community Success Story: Environmental Incentive Program

    Our final Environment Week Community Success Story is courtesy of Raene Barber, Sustainability Engineer with the Waste and Environment team at the City of Lethbridge, who explains the importance of the new Environmental Incentives Program: Please describe the water rebates programThe Environmental Incentive Program offers rebates for purchasing rain barrels and replacing, old inefficient toilets…

  • Community Success Stories: City Nature Challenge

    Today’s Community Success Story is all about the City Nature Challenge. In Lethbridge, the Challenge is led by the Friends of the Helen Schuler Nature Centre. Please describe the City Nature Challenge The City Nature Challenge is a global citizen science bio-blitz held annually. Last year, over 66,394 people from cities around the world documented urban…

  • Community Success Story: Community Tree Nursery

    Today’s Community Success Story is all about the City of Lethbridge’s new Community Tree Nursery. Urban Forestry Technician Anna Larney gave us the low down: Please describe the tree nursery project The Community Tree Nursery is a space where the City of Lethbridge Parks Department can grow trees locally to add to our urban forest.…

  • Community Success Story: Clean Energy Improvement Program

    Our second Community Success Story is about the Clean Energy Improvement Program, which helps homeowners improve their energy efficiency. Amy Wehlage Acting Manager with Assessment & Taxation at the City of Lethbridge shared why this program is such a success: What is the CEIP? The Clean Energy Improvement Program (CEIP) is a municipal financing initiative designed…

  • Community Success Story: Coulee Clean-up

    This year for Environment Week, we are highlighting environmental success stories from around Lethbridge. First is Coulee Clean-up, which has been organized by the Helen Schuler Nature Centre since 2008. Nature Centre Resource Development Coordinator Chelsea Sherbut shared what makes the program a success: Please describe Coulee Clean-up Coulee Clean-up is a volunteer conservation project…

  • Get outside with Jocelyn Rawleigh

    Walking the Talk: 5 Questions with Jocelyn Rawleigh 1. Tell me how getting outside/being in nature fits into your life? Fortunately, my personal and work life center around going outside! I often can be found exploring southern Alberta with my binoculars in hand. As a Helen Schuler Nature Centre employee, all the nature adventures I partake…

  • Go birding with David Scott

    Walking the Talk: 5 Questions with David Scott David Scott is someone who spends a lot of time outside. He shares his experience as a local birder and naturalist. 1. Tell me how birding/getting outside/being in nature fits into your life? Wherever I am, provided I’m outside or have a window to the outdoors, I’m birding.…