London Clean and Green

Find information on this year's events below and stay tuned for more as planning for London Clean & Green 2024 continues, or follow us on Facebook or Instagram for our latest updates!

Are you curious about climate change and its impact on our community? Are you eager to take meaningful steps toward a more sustainable future? Look no further! You’re invited to the grand finale of Green in the City! ⁠
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The finale of this year’s 2023/2024 event series brings together three esteemed⁠ speakers who will share their insights, experience, and passion for addressing⁠ climate challenges in London and in similar communities:⁠

• City of London Mayor, Josh Morgan, who has served on London City Council for almost ten years and has been a proud Londoner for more than twenty-five years.
• Dr. Karen Farbridge, an advisor to federal, provincial and municipal policy makers and industry leaders on building sustainable and resilient communities. She was also Mayor of Guelph for 11 years. Karen will be the keynote speaker at this event.
• Milfred Hammerbacher, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of S2E Technologies Inc., the company that has played a key role in the development of West 5, Ontario’s first neighbourhood powered by the sun, and are the developers of EVE Park in the Riverbend area. Milfred has been active in the London climate change space for over a decade.

Central Library / Wolf Performance Hall - 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM (with networking social starting at 6:00 PM)

Register here: Eventbrite - Green in the City Finale

Join us on Friday, April 19, 2024 to complete a 20-Minute London Makeover at 2:00 p.m. in your neighbourhood!

Head out outside of your business, school, or home to pick-up litter and help spruce up our city. This is a great way for businesses, institutions, and schools to show community spirit and environmental stewardship.

No registration is required. Participants are just encouraged to take 20 minutes out of their day to tidy up in their neighbourhood.

Share your efforts online or participate in our contest with the #519cleangreen hashtag, full contest details below. If you have questions about the 20 Minute London Makeover or other London Clean & Green events or clean-ups, read on or Contact Us.

On Saturday, April 20, 2024, the London Clean & Green Community-wide Clean-up Day will help spruce up the Forest City!

Plan a group event, join one that might be going on in your area, or participate on your own or with friends or family on this day that has become the largest community driven clean-up effort in the city!

How to participate?

There is no official registration required, we just want to encourage folks to get out and clean-up in their community. But if you are planning a litter clean-up, mark it on our 2024 map to avoid overlapping efforts and to encourage others. Additional details below:

• Small amounts of collected litter can often be managed inside public space garbage cans
• Medium amounts of litter can often be managed within scheduled garbage set out limits at your home or business
• On Saturday April 20, 2024 from 9am-1pm: Large amounts of litter may be brought to one of our drop sites look for the London Clean & Green sign:
  • North: North London Athletic Fields, parking lot - 1225 Adelaide St. N
  • South: South London Community Pool, parking lot - 585 Bradley Ave
  • East: Argyle Arena, road's edge - 1948 Wavell St
  • West: Moffatt & Powell RONA London - 1282 Hyde Park Rd
• On On Saturday April 20, 2024 - lager amounts of litter or group clean-ups can also be coordinated for pick-up from an approved curbside location, by completing the Contact Us form by April 17, 2024.

If you need to request supplies (garbage bags or disposable gloves), you would like support planning a group clean-up, or would like to arrange a curbside location for pick-up of collected litter on April 20, 2024, please Contact Us.

EarthFest celebrates environmental action in London through music, art, kids activities, vendor booths, greener living, greener food, greener fun, and more.

Downtown London: Saturday, April 20, 2024:
Indoor Downtown Venues:

• Citi Plaza: The indoor shopping centre will be transformed into an eco-extravaganza with 100+ exhibitors and Tsi' Yakwatyatalo:loks - the gathering place
• Central Library: The Library will host kids activities, booths, activities, and a music stage
• Lawson Room Speakers Stage: Directly across from the Main Library entrance, will host a variety of speakers
• Stevenson & Hunt Room: A drop-in Climate Conversations Café will be hosted near the Wolf Performance Hall and the canteen

Learn more about EarthFest at its official website: earthfestlondon.ca

Each spring, 1000’s of environmentally concerned volunteers who care about the Thames River and tributaries converge all along the watershed to clean up garbage and debris that is harmful to wildlife and water quality. With the generous support of our sponsors and community partners, each volunteer is supplied with gloves, garbage bags, and a ballot to win a Nova Craft canoe. Volunteers have noticed the Thames River is much cleaner and healthier in part to all their efforts over the years.

What is the difference between the Thames River Clean Up and London Clean & Green?

The Thames River Clean Up is focused on the Thames River and all the tributaries. The Thames River Clean Up is organized through 17 communities in the watershed. Over 1,500 dedicated volunteers worked very hard along 200 km of our Thames River last year.

London Clean & Green encourages litter clean-ups along sidewalks and boulevards across the city, in the downtown, outside of homes or businesses, and in many parks that may not be on the Thames River or its tributaries. However, some of the parks do follow the water and volunteers may participate in both when they clean up in those parks.

Those with looking to participate in the Thames River Clean-up are encouraged to visit their official website for more information: thamesrivercleanup.ca

Share your efforts and encourage others to do the same, details below on how you can participate in a clean-up and enter for your chance to win one of six great prize packages!

How to Enter?

1. “Follow” our London Clean & Green account on social media:
   • Facebook: @londoncleangreen
   • Instagram: @ldncleangreen
2. Upload a post with a picture of your clean-up and the hashtag #519cleangreen by May 1, 2024
3. All eligible entries will be included into a random prize draw. Prize winners will be contacted by social media

Prizes

• One of three environmental prize packages from the City of London that each include your choice of home composter or home digester unit, one blue box, paper yard waste bags, information on waste diversion and London Clean & Green swag!

• One $100 gift card from Joe Kool's Restaurant

• One TRY Recycling prize package that includes one yard of compost or landscape product delivered within in London!

• One Better Bin Company prize package that includes a temporary waste disposal bin delivered and picked-up anywhere within London!

Prize winners will be drawn randomly from all eligible entries and contacted by the social media account used to enter contest. Full contest details here.