Brampton Climate Walk & Native Plant Tour at Dorchester Park

Hosted by Brampton Environmental Alliance in collaboration with Toronto Climate Week
Sunday June 7, 2026 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Dorchester Park, Brampton (Meeting point details will be confirmed upon registration)

What if your front yard, backyard, or boulevard could become a haven for bees, butterflies, and the plants that sustain them — right here in Brampton?

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BEA partners with Plant Powered for the Earth to bring an exciting Pollinator Habitat workshop and program to WG Davis SPS.

Pollinators are essential to healthy ecosystems, food production, biodiversity, and climate resilience across Ontario. Creating pollinator gardens with native plants and installing bee hotels are simple but powerful ways communities can support declining native bee populations while helping mitigate climate change through healthier urban ecosystems.

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Ever wondered how discarded packaging in the Blue Box becomes new packaging?

Most of us put something into the blue box every week and hope it gets recycled properly. Have you ever wondered what actually happens behind the scenes after the truck picks it up? How much of it actually gets recycled? Or, why materials need to be separated into the blue, black or green bins?

These are important questions that our BEA team is aiming to answer at an upcoming interactive workshop on Thursday, June 04, 2026. There you will learn why it is important to separate your waste, how to dispose of it in a way that has the least environmental impact, and how discarded material, like an old yogurt container, eventually become new packaging again.

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BEA Partners with Brampton Forestry, ACER and local schools to deliver tree monitoring

The BEA has partnered with Brampton Forestry and the Association of Canadian Educational Resources, (ACER) to provide tree monitoring services to sites at Batsman and Gore Meadows Parks. Students from Louise Arbour and Fletcher’s Meadows Secondary Schools participated in the 2-day event, Batsman Park on May 02nd and Gore Meadows Park on May 16th.

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Announcing the ClimateFast Brampton Voting Record Database

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The Brampton Environmental Alliance is pleased to announce a collaboration with ClimateFast to bring climate accountability and transparency to the City of Brampton. ClimateFast is a volunteer-led not-for-profit organization driving climate action through education and civic engagment. Now, through the Brampton Environmental Alliance website, you can access a searchable database of votes made by Brampton City Council on climate and environmental issues during this 2022-2026 term. With this database we can now see how our Council stacks up on climate leadership.

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