Who are we?
We are all volunteers involved in very exciting projects aimed at reducing the carbon footprint of our community... one emission at a time!
Oh, and we are also registered as a non-profit society with a mission and purpose that you can read here.
Contact Us
Want to get involved and share in the fun that we are having reinventing our community? Just turn up at one of our meetings or events, or get in touch! It's that easy!
Email:
squamishcan@gmail.com
Phone:
604.562.0446
(Krystle tenBrink, President)
Seasonal Foods of Sea to Sky
NEW! SQUAMISH CAN'S FOOD CALENDAR - Squamish CAN promotes seasonal eating with the Sea to Sky food calendar. Choosing to eat seasonal foods grown locally is good for our health, our community's economy and the environment.
The calendar promotes growing our own food by telling us what to grow and when and, if that's not possible, it shows us when produce is harvested so we can purchase in season at the farmers' market or at the grocery store. Read the full story as published in The Chief here and download the calendar here, or get your copy at your local farmers' market along the Sea-to-Sky Corridor.
Squamish CAN's Bike-rack Brigade
The Bike-rack Brigade at the Farmers' Market & Pavilion Park!
July 2011 - Squamish CAN’s Bike-rack Brigade has worked in collaboration with Dobra Design and the District of Squamish to bring two bike-racks to Pavilion Park and the Farmers’ Market area. Every Saturday morning, it is wonderful to see so many bikes downtown; it was about time we had some racks so they are not all over the place, lying around. The demand is such, we do not expect two bike-racks will take care of it all, but Squamish CAN will continue to work to add more. Check out other Bike-rack Brigade missions here.
Photo: Farmers’ Market Manager Carolyn Morris (left), Squamish CAN Coordinator Ana Santos (centre) and DoS Operations Supervisor Scott Lamont (right).
Disclaimer
-DISCLAIMER-
Please note that Squamish CAN does not necessarily endorse any companies, products or services mentioned in this website. Our intention is to inform, not to endorse, and we expect everybody to apply due diligence and take responsibility for their own choices.
Events
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RE-USE-IT-FAIR
Squamish CAN Grow Community Garden
Click HERE for all the juicy details related to the Squamish CAN Grow Community Garden! Ready to grow? Click HERE to download the application for a Squamish CAN Grow Community Garden Plot!
Email us your questions or plot application at cangrowgarden@gmail.com
Squamish's 2nd re-use-it fair delivered the goods - Oct 22, 2011
In collaboration with the District of Squamish, Squamish CAN’s Re-Use-It Fair event is already setting forward-looking standards and inspiring trends. On Sat Oct 22, hundreds of people came and went in approx. 185 vehicles. These brought a total of 72.3 tonnes of stuff which, by the end of the day, had changed hands! At clean-up time, only one Carneys container went to the dump (1.7T) – this can be reduced further and we will be working on that ;)
Congratulations to the entire community of Squamish for participating and putting so much effort into changing our collective behaviour. Remember, waste reduction makes sense, and not just in an environmental way. Our landfill is currently being expanded; it is a big hole in the land but also in our financial plan – millions of our taxpayer dollars are being spent to patch it up! And how long is the new landfill going to last? They say just 5 years – can we really be happy with that!?
The success of events like the re-use-it fair tells us this is far from the case. We are obviously learning to be responsible not just over what we consume but in the way we dispose of our stuff too! :)
Special thanks to all our volunteers and supporters, including; the District of Squamish, Squamish Lions Club, Tumblewoods, Squamish Terminals, Triack Resources Ltd, Squamish Scrap Metal, Carney’s Waste Systems, Miller Capilano, Squamish Insurance, Switchover.ca, Squamish Chamber of Commerce, Squamish Sustainability Corporation and last but not least… the Sea-to-Sky Fiddlers!
See the event photos below and read the media story here.
Squamish CAN's Library
Squamish CAN's library is housed at ‘In the Raw Organics’ on Cleveland Avenue, downtown Squamish. For a small donation, you can borrow any movie or book, any time*. ‘In the Raw Organics’ is open 7 days a week; don’t forget the popcorn while you are there!
*Please note movies are exclusively for home use; many require a licence for public or educational use (for more info, contact us at squamishcan@gmail.com). Donations will go towards more movies.
Check out our movie list here (latest update, Aug 2011).
New EcoEnergy Program!
New EcoEnergy grant program just introduced by the federal government! Currently, home owners can get both federal and provincial grants for home energy upgrades – don’t miss your chance; they are the best grants ever!
Click here for the federal EcoEnergy grant program.
Click here for the provincial LiveSmart BC grant program.
Waste alerts!
Composting in bear country is possible!
Download the new District of Squamish's flyer "5 Simple Steps to Making Compost in Bear Country - in Squamish!" right here.
Squamish Styrofoam recycling initiative debuts
As from right now, and thanks to Nesters’ store manager Sean Daly, there is a place for Styrofoam in our community!
Read more about this recycling program here.
Feedback or questions? Email Squamish CAN at squamishcan@gmail.com
What happens to our recyclables?
Squamish residents have asked Squamish CAN this question time and time again. Well, Carneys' answer is finally here!
See also Squamish CAN's Waste pages here and here to learn what we do with the rest of our so-called waste.
Any comments? Send them to squamishcan@gmail.com
Questioning the phase-out of incandescent bulbs? Unsure about Compact Fluorescent Light-bulbs (CFLs)? You may find the information here, here and here useful.
The choice is yours to make, but remember that, in Squamish, we can recycle all types of bulbs*, incandescent and CFL.
Squamish CAN has partnered with Rona and the District of Squamish to offer convenient collection points. Place your used bulbs in the containers provided at Municipal Hall (2nd Avenue) and Rona (Discovery Way).
(*) Due to safety issues, long fluorescent tubes must be taken directly to Rona. All bulbs are sent to Aevitas Inc., Rona’s recycling partner in Ontario.
NEW used household battery recycling program – now FREE!!
Squamish CAN is pleased to announce that a FREE program to collect and recycle used household batteries has now been established Province-wide through a collaboration between the BC Ministry of the Environment and the non-profit Call2Recycle. Read more here.
In Squamish, take your used batteries and cell-phones to Nesters Market, Changes at Save On Foods, Extra Foods, Municipal Hall and the Squamish Adventure Centre, and place them in the boxes provided (see image below). You will notice that bags are provided – please bag only rechargeable & lithium batteries and cell phones.
Turn to our Waste group's Projects page for more info.
© 2012 Created by Ana Santos.
