This Toronto park is home to the first of what will soon be two billion trees
Toronto, already dubbed a city within a park, is about to get a whole lot greener.
Rouge National Urban Park, the largest urban park in North America known for its offerings of trails through Carolinian forest, is getting 26,000 new trees this spring.
The planting of these trees come as part of a wetland and riparian restoration project with Forests Ontario, Parks Canada, and Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) – and will be the first of many.
There are plans for two billion more across Canada over the next decade with the 2 Billion Trees program that was announced back in 2019 amid plenty of climate protests throughout the country.
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Essex County council has given a thumbs-up to a regional energy plan aimed at addressing climate change issues and reducing the local cost and consumption of energy.
The plan, which calls for an increase in community-wide energy efficiency of at least 50 per cent over 2019 levels by 2041 and a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of at least 60 per cent over that same period, was supported in principle in a vote last week.
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