Author: Diane Szoller

  • London’s First Urban Agriculture Steering Committee

      TREA is excited to have attended the City’s first Urban Agriculture Steering Committee meeting this month. The goal is to develop a plan engaging community to become involved with all the strategy’s many action opportunities. A final report at year end will be strategized for Council’s consideration. March 2018 Newsletter

  • TREA Video

      During February and March TREA is developing a TREA video specifically to talk about TREA and its opportunities, as well as creating a new TREA pop-up display panel and new project flyers. February 2018 Newsletter

  • Governance, Special Projects and Events

      TREA is taking special time now to map out the year 2018. This includes governance, special projects, presentations, special events and volunteer opportunities.   January 2018 Newsletter

  • LEN’s Day of Refle-Action

       TREA and participate with LEN’s Day of Refle-Action held on Nov. 17 with other community groups. Amazing updates and idea sharing took place and a fabulous lunch was catered by Growing Chefs.   December 2017 Newsletter

  • GreenDrinks

      TREA welcomes 2 new Board members – Colin Baird and Melissa March. Recent activities – we were pleased to be on a team in the finals at GreenDrinks, Oct 5 on the topic of community energy planning.    November 2017 Newsletter  

  • Western Fair

      We was pleased to have a message at Western Fair this year (Sept 8-17) in conjunction with displays organized by Friends of Urban Agriculture (who are partnered with the Fair). Also in Sept, TREA had a display at Doors Open on Sept 16 held at Grosvenor Lodge where TREA has its office (see photo). A…

  • Green Directory

      This fall TREA is moving to finalize a new version of its Green Directory, a successful program TREA has offered for several years. More recently over the last 5 years, it stepped back as EcoLiving London established a commercial listing of retailers and advertising stream, but now that is not offered so the Green…

  • Compost Awareness

      TREA is starting to expand composting awareness efforts by attending smaller park special events in London promoting waste diversion and composting. Our thanks goes to those inviting TREA.      July 2017 Newsletter

  • Food waste survey

    Western, in conjunction with the City of London, developed a London household food waste survey to help them understand the amount and reasons why food is wasted and what leads to these behaviours. The focus is on food that could have been eaten (e.g. whole fruit, bread, leftovers etc.) rather than the parts of food…

  • June 3 – 100in1 Day Festival

    Got an idea for TREA and can you help us with it! Let us know at volunteer@trea.ca how we can join the Urban League’s all-day festival to promote London to Londoners with 100+ fun, innovative pop-up ideas all over the city. For ideas, watch this video: