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Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · 6d

🗣️📝 Tell Us Your Testimonials! How did #yorklandsgreenhub transform your life?
If interested, please fill out the form below and share your experiences! Your responses are extremely valuable for the YGH.
Link to the form is here: form-can.keela.co/testimonial-...

#guelph
#guelphontario
#reformation

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Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · 8d

Event Details:
📍 Location: Italian Canadian Club, 135 Ferguson St., Guelph, N1E 2Y7
📅 Date & Time: Oct 26, 1:30-4:30pm, with time to socialize from 4:30-5:30pm.

📝 Registration: www.tickettailor.com/events/guelp...

Select tickets – Guelph Community Climate Forum – Italian Canadian Club

Guelph Community Climate Forum – Italian Canadian Club, Sun 26 Oct 2025 - In 2018, the City of Guelph set municipal Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions targets for 2030 and 2050 as a strategy to combat cli...

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Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · 8d

Guelph Climate Action Network and partners are responding to the City of Guelph’s Community Call to Climate Action Report by hosting “Community Climate Forum 2025: Learn, Plan, Act." We're striving to ensure the municipality has a robust, outcome-focused, community-led plan to manage GHG emissions.

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Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · 9d

🌱 Join us in bringing this vision to life —watch the video and visit our website.
🌐 Website: smallchangefund.ca/campaign/rev...
🎥 Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Co...
For further information, please contact us at: [email protected]

Revive the Yorklands: A Community Vision for Nature and Belonging – Small Change Fund

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Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · 9d

Joining forces with Small Change Fund on a fundraising campaign - Revive the Yorklands: A Community Vision for Nature and Belonging.
Your donations will support community programming and help us hire 2 new staff members. Funds also power the protection of the Ontario Reformatory lands.
Detail below👇

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Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · 12d

➡️ Get your free tickets today: goboys.eventbrite.ca

* Rain date will be October 19th, 10-11:30am.
* This farmhouse walk is a re-scheduled walk from the summer. Our first walk had to be canceled due to thunderstorms.

Watching for 'Go' Boys: A Guided Walk with Susan Ratcliffe

Join Susan Ratcliffe for an evening walk around Matthew's Farmhouse and to learn about one of the heritage structures at the Yorklands site!

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Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · 12d

🙌Last chance to join and enjoy a lovely evening walk around Matthew's Farmhouse today!
🚶More specific instructions about where to meet will be emailed prior to the event. Get a ticket before it's too late!

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Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · 26d

➡️ Get your free tickets today: goboys.eventbrite.ca

* Rain date will be October 19th, 10-11:30am.
* This farmhouse walk is a re-scheduled walk from the summer. Our first walk had to be canceled due to thunderstorms.

Watching for 'Go' Boys: A Guided Walk with Susan Ratcliffe

Join Susan Ratcliffe for an evening walk around Matthew's Farmhouse and to learn about one of the heritage structures at the Yorklands site!

GoBoys.eventbrite.ca

Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · 26d

On October 18, join Susan Ratcliffe for a walk around Matthew's Farmhouse, a heritage building on the Yorklands site. She will share stories of the buildings former occupants, it's purpose at the OR, and the significance of these heritage buildings to our community.
See the comment to get a ticket!👇

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Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · 28d

YGH, alongside our local partners, extends a huge thanks to everyone who joined our Q&A session last week!
A special thanks to Dr. Nadina Galle for sharing insights from her book, The Nature of Our Cities. Your participation provided the perfect closing for #GuelphGreenReads.

#Urbannature
#Guelph

Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · 29d

Read the 94 Calls To Action👉
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Reports - NCTR

Table of Contents Highlighted ReportsTruth and Reconciliation Commission ReportsNational Centre for Truth and Reconciliation ReportsCreating an Engagement Plan with Indigenous Communities:Modern Repor...

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Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · 29d

YGH acknowledges the great harms that were perpetrated on so many Indigenous children for the last 150 years in residential schools across the country, some of whom came to be incarcerated as adults at the former Ontario Reformatory/Guelph Correctional Centre.

#guelph
#canada
#indigenouspeople

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Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · Sep 26

On the #NationalDayforTruthAndReconciliation, YGH is working with our Indigenous partners to integrate the Indigenous heritage of the Yorklands (OR) property and the wise approaches to caring for the land into our programming and narratives.

#IndigenousRights
#Canada
#ontarioreformatory
#guelph

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Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · Sep 25

📩Email us at [email protected] to learn more or apply here: yorklandsgreenhub.ca/volunteer-fo....

Volunteer Form -

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Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · Sep 25

Would you like to contribute meaningfully to the community and help cultivate a stronger, more sustainable and environmentally conscious future for all?
These opportunities are available to volunteers on our Events Committee at #YorklandsGreenHub!

See details in the comment👇

#guelph
#volunteer

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Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · Sep 23

Link here to grab the last-minute ticket👉https://ggrqanda.eventbrite.ca

Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · Sep 23

🙌Bring your questions to tonight's final Q&A with Dr. Nadina Galle, author of The Nature of Our Cities, to celebrate the wrap-up of this year's #GuelphGreenReads during #NationalForestWeek!

📍 University of Guelph Arboretum
🗓 Tuesday, September 23, 2025
⏰ 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.

See link in the comment👇

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Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · Sep 19

🔊 Give it a listen: www.nadinagalle.com/podcasts/s5e...

World’s Best Urban Forests: Learnings with Dan Lambe

Dan Lambe shares valuable lessons from the world’s best urban forests, offering insights into sustainable forestry practices and green urban planning.

www.nadinagalle.com

Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · Sep 19

As #GuelphGreenReads summer book club on Dr. Nadina Galle’s The Nature of Our Cities wraps up, YGH is celebrating our discoveries by spotlighting S5E2 — What Can We Learn from the World’s Best Urban Forests? This episode offers practical ways to translate her ideas into action.
Link in the comment👇

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Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · Sep 16

Tickets here👉https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/q-a-with-dr-nadina-galle-tickets-1520489668529?aff=oddtdtcreator

📚 Copies of The Nature of Our Cities are available at:
The Guelph Public Library👉https://www.guelphpl.ca/en/index.aspx#
The Bookshelf👉https://www.bookshelf.ca/item/UhelvOrckPmj-aH_rgQmBg

Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · Sep 16

We are pleased to share that the final Q&A with Dr. Nadina Galle, author of The Nature of Our Cities, will now take place in person at the University of Guelph Arboretum.
This will be a special chance to connect with readers on this year’s #GuelphGreenReads summer book club.
See link in the comment👇

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Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · Sep 15

🙌Hey Guelphites, stay tuned for the 2025 #NationalForestWeek next week!

If interested in any of the events, be sure to check the link below, as registrations are required for several of the events!
👉https://guffguelph.ca/events

#guelphontario
#guelphlife
#GuelphEvents
#naturelovers
#canada

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Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · Sep 10

🙌Quick, tickets are running out!
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#GuelphGreenReads Book Club Panel Discussion

Join Yorklands Green Hub for a thought-provoking panel discussion inspired by The Nature of Our Cities by Dr. Nadina Galle!

GuelphGreenReadsPanelDiscussion.eventbrite.ca

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Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · Sep 10

📣Last call for #GuelphGreenReads, a free panel discussion on The Nature of Our Cities by Dr. Nadina Galle!
📆Thursday, Sept 11, 2025
⏰7:00–8:30 PM
📍Guelph Main Library, 100 Norfolk St.
👇Join to explore how technology, conservation, and community action shape greener, more resilient cities!
#Guelph

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Yorklands Green Hub @yorklandsgreenhub.bsky.social · Sep 9

To stay in the loop about Guelph's Day of Action, check out the Guelph Climate Action Network website: www.guelphclimateactionnetwork.com/news/

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GCAN in the News. Check out new items from GCAN in the community!

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