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6, 2009- Knock, knock: Students to campaign for change
The Whig Standard in Kingston features the RTJ K team. Our new team is quickly gaining an audience in Kingston. Click here to read the full story. |
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---------------------------- July 15, 2008 - Reduce the Juice campaign urges drivers to stop idling The Waterloo Record announces our Summer 2008 emissions reduction project. Click here to read more. |
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---------------------------- July 9, 2008 - Local teens encouraging the public to 'reduce the juice' this summer The Waterloo Chronicle covers our Waterloo students encouraging the public to 'Reduce the Juice' this summer. Click here to read more. |
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---------------------------- July 9, 2008 - Open Your Doors A Waterloo Chronicle editorial piece encouraging Waterloo residents to give our Reduce the Juice auditors a chance to raise environmental awareness. Click here to read more. |
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---------------------------- July 9, 2008 - Reduce The Juice Waterloo Reduce the Juice launch party press release. Click here to read more. ---------------------------- |
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May 31, 2008 - Orangeville Hydro and PURE open Green Pathways Our good friends at PURE and Orangeville Hydro have teamed up to open a unique one stop shop for green living. It will bring together local resources for green energy and other green technologies. RTJ says "Congrats" and we're happy to have somewhere to send people who are interested in renewable energy! Click here to read more. |
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---------------------------- May 30, 2008 - Orangeville Celebrates Energy Conservation week with local success stories At the conclusion of Energy Conservation Week, the Town of Orangeville and their Sustainability Action Team are highlighting local conservation success stories. For the complete story on how a resident, a local business and the local municipality are stepping up to the Energy Conservation Challenge, click here. |
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---------------------------- May 28, 2008 - Reduce the Juice in partnership with the Town of Orangeville and Orangeville Hydro launch the Energy Challenge! RTJ has once again partnered with Orangeville folks to launch the Energy Challenge. This online challenge will allow residents to compare their energy use to the Orangeville average and they will be encouraged to reduce, reduce, reduce! For full details see the press release here or go directly to the challenge website here. |
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---------------------------- May 15, 2008 - Energy Conservation Week comes to Orangeville Reduce the Juice and the Orangeville Sustainability Action Team in partnership with Orangeville Hydro promote local events celebrating Energy Conservation Week. Energy Conservation Week was proclaimed as a province-wide celebration and awareness event to bring attention to energy conservation practices and opportunities. Read all the details about what we have planned here or check the local paper coverage here. |
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---------------------------- April 21, 2008 - Reduce the Juice gets some Juice! Reduce the Juice announced today that it has received some valuable funding from the Ministry of the Environment's Community Go Green Fund. This funding will help us expand out Waterloo Project and allow us to work with more schools! For more information on the fund please click here. Click here for the press release. |
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---------------------------- February 20, 2008 - RTJ Makes a Guest Appearance at a "Green Tea" "Green Teas" are the newest thing in Caledon and the monthly speakers series has really taken off. These themed events feature three guest speakers brought together to share information on specific green topics. RTJ's Executive Director, Theresa Sauren was one of the guest speakers at the recent Green Energy Tea held at the Albion Bolton Community Centre. Click here for the whole story. |
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---------------------------- October 26, 2007 - Orangeville Hydro Wins Award from Ontario Clean Air Alliance Congrats Orangeville for being a "Peak Buster"! Reduce the Juice helps Orangeville win an award for reducing peak energy consumption. Click here to read more. |
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---------------------------- October 22, 2007 - Reducing the Juice at the Food Bank Reduce the Juice in cooperation with Orangeville Hydro held a draw at the end of our Business Conservation Initiative Project and the lucky winner was the Orangeville Food Bank. Read the full story here. ---------------------------- |
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July 16, 2007 - RTJ Targets Small Businesses with new project For the summer of 2007, RTJ teamed with Orangeville Hydro to do an energy conservation project that focused on small businesses. Here is the introductory story in the Orangeville Banner. ---------------------------- July 5, 2007 - RTJ Team's up with CDDHS again for Innovative PowerCost Monitor Project Hydro One has donated 50 of Blueline Innovations PowerCost Monitors to RTJ to use in a new research project. We are once again working with our colleagues at Centre Dufferin District High School. Click here for the full story. ---------------------------- June 28, 2007 - Corporate Culture Meets Climate Change The Orangeville Banner has run some editorials on climate change and energy use and tends to mention RTJ as a local resource for more information on these topics. Read more. ---------------------------- |
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June 11, 2007 - Reduce the Juice Receives Trillium Grant RTJ was fortunate to receive a Trillium grant to build the organization. This money will allow RTJ to expand to our neighbouring municipalities to help them Reduce their Juice too. RTJ will use this money to hire a full time staff person (our first) and plan projects in Waterloo and Wellington Regions. Here is the full story. ---------------------------- October 12, 2006 - Westside Secondary School Launches Solar Project RTJ is working with Westside Secondary School in Orangeville to build a solar tracker. Click here for the Full story. ---------------------------- August 3, 2006 - Energy Editorial Energy Conservation is a topic on the minds of many people including the editor of the local Orangeville newspaper, The Orangeville Citizen. Click here to read the musings of the editor and how RTJ fits into that train of thought! ---------------------------- |
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| June 19, 2006 - Reduce the Juice Press Day at Orangeville Hydro
The Reduce the Juice team was happy to welcome Chief Conservation Officer Peter Love and Orangeville Mayor Drew Brown to Orangeville Hydro to help launch the Orangeville Community Conservation Project. Everybody was very enthusiastic about the project and both local papers wrote about the event. Click to read a report from the Orangeville Citizen (PDF) and the Orangeville Banner (PDF). ---------------------------- |
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Demand Management - All three Reduce the Juice Team leaders as well as Theresa Sauren were on hand to accept an award from the OEA for mentorship in conservation for our leadership in developing conservation and renewable energy knowledge and skills among students and in cultivating youth leaders and mentors within the community. Thank you to the OEA for an informative day as well as the recognition for our efforts! ----------------------------- May 11, 2006 - Orangeville District High School to Host Electric Car Races ODSS is hosting an electric car race and RTJ has pitched in a solar panel to help them win the big race. Read more. ----------------------------- May 11, 2006 - Green Energy Education Moving Forward Centre Dufferin District High School in Shelburne has decided to build on the interest in renewable energy generated by their wind turbine and solar panel installation by building a mobile renewable energy demonstration unit. Here's the full story. ----------------------------- |
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Peter Love the Chief Energy Conservation Officer for the Province of Ontario came to a celebration at Shelburne high school to award certificates of recognition to the Reduce the Juice Team and the students and teachers of Centre Dufferin District High School for the summer energy conservation program and the Green Power Project. Presenting the certificate to Jeff Wellman, the teacher who championed the installation of the renewable energy system, Peter Love saluted the team work of school and community in his remarks, "The Green Power Project shows that community-based initiatives can make a real change and that schools can lead by example in the community." For the complete story click here to read the Orangeville Banner's coverage. ----------------------------- Fall 2005 - RTJ Featured in Hydro One Newsletter Hydro One, a significant partner of ours in the Shelburne Community Energy Project has featured our success in their newsletter, click here for the full story. ----------------------------- Summer 2005 - RTJ makes it onto TV! The RTJ team from the Shelburne 2005 project was interviewed twice for television in the span of a week! Roger Klein from The New VR came down from Barrie looking for a story on energy consumption and conservation. He followed the students while they did a home audit of the Mayor, Ed Crewson's house. That very night while doing the door to door shift, many residents said "hey didn't I just see you on the news?" ----------------------------- Waub Rice
from the Weather Network also did a story on the team which thanks to
the Weather Networks' cross Canada coverage was seen by people we know
from as far away as Calgary. That's putting Energy Conservation and Shelburne
on the map! --------------------------- June 4, 2005 - Shelburne's First Community Energy conference Held at the Grace Tipling Hall in Shelburne this conference featured speakers from across Ontario and was the launch event for the Reduce the Juice Shelburne Project. Click here to see the speakers' presentations. |
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