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High Levels of Radon in Marathon and Oliver Paipoonge

@TBDHealthUnit High Levels of #Radon in @townofMarathon & #OliverPaipoonge @ECOSUPERIOR @GovCanHealth #TakeActionOnRadon @tbayhome @jocelynbourgoin @ManitouwadgeT @opfd14 @RadonIsReal #NorthernOntario @Confederation @ONThealth

THUNDER BAY, ON – According to a study by the TBDHU, 65% of homes in Oliver Paipoonge and 17% of homes in Marathon have high levels of radon.

CLICK HERE: Prevalence of High Residential Radon in Two Communities within Thunder Bay District to download the study released this month by the TBDHU the at Confederation College’s TEC Hub.

For the study, homes in Oliver Paipoonge and Marathon were tested…

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Keep America Beautiful Announces 50 Organizations Receive 2019 Cigarette Litter Prevention Program Grants

Keep America Beautiful®, the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization, today announced it has awarded 50 grants to Keep America Beautiful community-based affiliates and partner organizations for its 2019 Cigarette Litter Prevention Program® (CLPP), designed to help communities combat the most commonly littered item in America.  

Keep America Beautiful is providing individual merit-based grants, totaling more than $300,000, in amounts of $10,000, $5,000 and $2,500 to 50 organizations throughout the country.

Keep America Beautiful affiliates, local governments, business improvement districts, downtown associations, parks and recreation areas, and other organizations dedicated to ending litter and beautifying communities are receiving grants. Since the establishment of the national initiative, communities in 49 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Canada have implemented the CLPP. Throughout its history, the program has helped reduce cigarette litter in the communities in which it has been implemented by an average of 50 percent.

Communities implementing the CLPP in 2018 reported an average 62 percent reduction of cigarette litter, even greater than the previous year’s average reduction of 52 percent. Cigarette Litter Prevention Program grant funding empowers communities to help mitigate the economic, environmental and quality-of-life impact of cigarette butt littering.

“Litter is both the smallest and largest problem at the same time,” said Jerred Jones, program director for the CLPP. “Keep America Beautiful believes that many of our social ills begin with litter. Access to ash receptacles and portable pocket ashtrays are crucial to changing littering behaviors.”

The CLPP, created by Keep America Beautiful in 2002, is the nation's largest program aimed at eliminating cigarette butt and cigar tip litter. Since its inception, the program has been successfully implemented in more than 1,800 urban, suburban and rural communities nationwide. Over the past decade, participating communities have consistently cut cigarette butt litter by 50 percent based on local measurements taken in the first four months to six months after program implementation.

Research has shown that even self-reported “non-litterers” often don’t consider tossing cigarette butts on the ground to be "littering."  Keep America Beautiful has found that cigarette butt litter occurs most often at transition points—areas where a person must stop smoking before proceeding into another area.  These include bus stops, entrances to stores and public buildings, and the sidewalk areas outside of bars and restaurants, among others.  

The Cigarette Litter Prevention Program is supported by funding from Altria, Reynolds American, and the Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company.

About Keep America Beautiful Keep America Beautiful, the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization, inspires and educates people to take action every day to improve and beautify their community environment. Established in 1953, Keep America Beautiful strives to End Littering, Improve Recycling and Beautify America’s Communities. We believe everyone has a right to live in a clean, green and beautiful community, and shares a responsibility to contribute to that vision.

Behavior change – steeped in education, research and behavioral science – is the cornerstone of Keep America Beautiful. We empower generations of community and environmental stewards with volunteer programs, hands-on experiences, educational curricula, practical advice and other resources. The organization is driven by the work and passion of more than 600 Keep America Beautiful affiliates, millions of volunteers, and the collaborative support of corporate partners, social and civic service organizations, academia, municipalities, elected officials, and individuals. Join us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. Donate and take action at kab.org.

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2019 Cigarette Litter Prevention Program Grant Recipients

Capitol Hill Business Improvement District City of Coffeyville KS/Coffeyville's Reawakening City of Espanola City of Hallandale Beach City of Shamokin EcoSuperior Environmental Programs I Love A Clean San Diego Keep Alabama Beautiful Keep America Beautiful-Topeka/Shawnee County Keep Bartlett Beautiful Keep Blanco Beautiful Keep Canton Beautiful Keep Chester County Beautiful Keep Copiah County Beautiful Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful Keep Darke County Beautiful Keep Denton Beautiful Keep Douglas County Beautiful Keep Dublin-Laurens Beautiful, Inc. Keep Durham Beautiful Keep Golden Isles Beautiful Keep Indian River Beautiful, Inc. Keep Katy Beautiful Keep Keith County Beautiful Keep Lexington Beautiful Keep Lorain County Beautiful Keep Midlothian Beautiful – Illinois Keep New Hanover Beautiful Keep New Mexico Clean & Beautiful Keep North Miami Beautiful Keep Ohio Beautiful Keep Paris/Henry County Beautiful Keep Panama City Beach Beautiful Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Keep Pinellas Beautiful Keep Port St. Lucie Beautiful Keep Prince William Beautiful Keep Rabun Beautiful Keep South Carolina Beautiful Keep the Bluegrass Beautiful Keep Tennessee Beautiful Keep Van Buren Beautiful Keep Virginia Beautiful, Inc. Maryland Coastal Bays Program Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District Mulberry River Society Oklahoma City Beautiful Town of Danvers Town of Norwood Transition Prince Rupert

source: http://www.csrwire.com/press_releases/41950-Keep-America-Beautiful-Announces-50-Organizations-Receive-2019-Cigarette-Litter-Prevention-Program-Grants?tracking_source=rss

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The Canada Water Week display that I conceived and created for Great Lakes Commons. People of all ages showed their commitment to embracing responsibility for water by putting their fingerprint on the map. "The Blue Profound", the custom ink for fingerprinting was made by the Toronto Ink Company with plants, minerals, and materials native to the lakes. That's wild blueberries, fox grapes, limestone dust, lye crystals, tree gum, wintergreen oil, mica flakes, and Lake Ontario water. Hosted by Earthcare Thunder Bay, Lakehead Region Conservation Authority and EcoSuperior. Thunder Bay, March 26, 2017. 

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Nipigon Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event

@nipigon Hazardous Waste Collection Event #NorthernOntario @ECOSUPERIOR @redrocktownship

NIPIGON, ON – Clean out your basements and garages, and haul your hazardous waste to the Nipigon Public Works Garage (2 Wadsworth Dr.) on Saturday, October 27th from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.   Fluorescent light bulbs, paint, corrosive materials, etc.

CLICK HERE to view a PDF of the image below.