LLGreen

Lanark & Leeds Green Community

REAL launched the Lanark & Leeds Green Community in 1998 to address the environmental concerns of individual residents and householders in the small towns and rural areas of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville. Since then, LL Green has directly engaged more than 4,000 homeowners in the region.

LLGreen offers:

• Well Aware Visits – have a guided self-assessment of your well and property and learn how to protect your water, your well and our groundwater. Visits are free, voluntary, confidential and non-regulatory.
• Well Aware Kits – but they are going fast! This printed information is available through the Health Unit, the offices of rural municipalities and other partners and at public events, or directly thorugh LLGreen.. The kit includes a drinking water glass to remind homeowners to test their wells regularly
• ecoENERGY Program - local provider of ecoENERGY Program. Have a personalized home energy audit by one of our trained assessors. Find out how retrofits done within the following 18 months may qualify for provincial and federal rebates.

In the past, LLGreen has offered:

• Green Home Visits – tips on greening your home
• Natural Landscaping Workshops – hosted with Rideau Roundtable to provide homeowners with site specific plans and pictures to naturalize their yards and shorelines
• Get your Lawn Off Drugs Workshops – on how to eliminate cosmetic pesticide use and have a healthier lawn and garden
• Pesticide Free Naturally kits – a kit of information that explains the health issues related to cosmetic pesticide use and how to reduce pesticide use in your lawn and garden
• Green Garden and Shoreline Visits on the Rideau and Tay Rivers – an expert would visit your home to answer questions and guide you through how to restore your shoreline, reduce pesticide and chemical fertilizer use, what to plant to attract birds and butterflies, how to reduce water use and use rainwater and what to plant for shade and wind.
• Rural Ecological Footprint
• The Pathways to Rural Sustainability Conference
• An Ecopyschology Workshop
• Stop the Burn, a program to reduce Backyard Burning
• Protecting our Water Workshops – hosted with the Rideau Roundtable to examine how we can best care for our wells and septic systems, do water testing, and use less water

Updated: March 2008