2024 Year in Review
Support Local Sustainability
Celebrating our achievements in climate action, community engagement, and environmental stewardship!
We are so grateful to our community partners, volunteers, and the donors who support our work. Help us make an even bigger impact in 2025. Consider donating to support Green Venture to continue to support local environmental action.
As 2024 comes to a close, we are proud to report on the local environmental impact we’ve made this year with your help!
With the support of over 1,180 volunteers 🙌, we were able to:
🌱 Transform 8 community greening sites
👩👧👦 Engage over 4,200 Hamilton youth
🌍 Reduce 490.6 tonnes of GHG emissions annually
🌧️ Soak up 1,069,419 L of stormwater every time it rains.
We connected with thousands of people across Hamilton who are passionate about planting rain gardens to soak up stormwater, planting, monitoring and caring for mini forests and trees to improve biodiversity and air quality, reducing emissions from their homes, greening their neighbourhoods, schools and church properties, connecting children with nature, and supporting youth to lead on environmental action.
- 🌳 686 trees planted
- 🌿 1,300 native plants added to support pollinators
- 🏗️ 16 green infrastructure projects built by residents
- ⏳ 2,242 volunteer hours spent on garden stewardship
🌱🎓 We also accomplished...
- 377 educational workshops delivered
- 150 Nature Kids program participants
- 33 field trips to EcoHouse
- 👗 1,733 clothes swapped
- 🔄 4 clothing swaps held
- ♻️ 3,600+ clothes saved from landfill
- 👖 1,930 pieces donated to shelters
- 🌍 ~80,000 kg of CO₂ emissions reduced
- 💧 20 million gallons of water saved
- 📊 359 audits conducted
- 🌱 35% average GHG reduction per household
Your donations help fuel this change!
Donor support is especially critical to help us continue to offer our free outdoor environmental learning programs for children and youth.
Stay tuned for our 2025 impact, and more ways you can help support our mission and preserve our natural environment, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and build a community resilient to climate change.
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