Banff Elementary School and the Town of Banff’s waste management unit worked together and conducted a waste audit at the school. As a result, all 310 students and 30 staff at Banff Elementary are rising to a challenge on Tuesday to have an absolutely garbage-free lunch. The school is following through with education pieces going home to families so everyone learns how to prepare a garbage-free lunch with the long-term goal that there will be some permanent changes and less waste is generated from home and school.

The 18th Annual Mayor’s Environmental Expo offers visitors opportunities to learn about the environment and actions they can take to protect our air, water and land. The Mayor's Expo is geared towards young people but has information for everyone.

Students will visit various booths in the Municipal Building Atrium, attend workshops and live theatre performances that will help them learn about the environment. Exhibitors at the Expo include The City of Calgary, business and non-government environmental organizations. They will showcase how they are supporting an environmentally healthy community. There will also be opportunities to showcase students’ ideas on how we can protect the environment and support sustainability.

On June 6th Corporate Calgary is invited to a lunchtime talk Climate Change and Reducing Your Ecological Footprint presented by Simon Knight, CEO of Climate Change Central. At the John Dutton Theatre (Calgary Public Library Main Branch) from 12:15-1:00 pm.

For more information, contact Judi Vandenbrink, 403 268-3217.

Visitors will have hands-on opportunities to dip small nets and discover the water invertebrates and other organisms that make the Wildlands pond their habitat. A great family activity. Go east on 9th Avenue, turn right into the large parking lot just before the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary parking lot. Hosted by Inglewood Wildlands Education Program & Society.

The Inglewood Wildlands is a work in progress – 34 hectares of land in the heart of the Inglewood Community are undergoing a slow transformation from an industrially contaminated site to a natural wildland. It’s an exciting transformation as the land goes full circle back to a wildland.

This will be an all day event starting with volunteer registration at 9:00 a.m. The morning will be tree planting and creek cleanup along the Bighill Springs Creek, followed by a BBQ at lunch for the volunteers. Throughout the day there will be several displays about riparian areas and wetlands, opportunities to monitor stream water quality and a bioengineering project to stabilize a badly eroded bank. There will be tours of the wetland areas in the Ranche . Use the parking lot of off Hwy 1A along just west of downtown Cochrane. For more information contact gieset@telus.net .

Sponsored by: Cochrane Branches and Banks

This is our 13th annual Stewardship Day. The day involves a free breakfast in the morning. People will be divided into working groups that go out to clean up the surrounding public lands. There are various projects from random campsite clean-up, trail maintenance to bridge and trail construction. The day finishes with everyone returning to a free dinner with prizes and great stories to share. This event has produced in excess of 370,000 volunteer hours towards maintaining, cleaning and improving the public lands.

The Blairmore Ranger Station is immediately south to the first railroad crossing west of downtown Blairmore or one block west of the Pass Powderkeg Ski Hill in Blairmore. Blairmore is in the Crowsnest Pass on highway 3.

Sponsored by: Crowsnest Forest Stewardship Society, http://crowsnestforest.com/