The Farm Fresh Fundraiser program is a unique opportunity for schools, sports teams, and other community organizations to raise funds while supporting a local organic vegetable farm and a non-profit organization that promotes community building around food.

I will be hosting the upcoming virtual ‘Mobilizing Kingston’ community Zoom call on May 3rd featuring Dr. Jonathan Foley, the executive director of Project Drawdown. Project Drawdown’s mission is to help the world reach “drawdown”—the point in the future when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline, thereby halting catastrophic climate change—as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.

I helped lead the charge a decade ago and developed a simple but powerful model to transform public transportation. In my role with the Limestone District School Board, alongside the City of Kingston (Kingston Transit), we created the Kingston Transit High School Bus Pass Program, now deemed the “Kingston Model” for youth transit programming.