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Thursday April 28, 2011 Welcome to the first edition of Highland Highlights!
This new e-newsletter will highlight the work of Toronto and Region Conservation (TRCA) and its partners in the Highland Creek watershed. Together we are working towards a healthier, greener Highland Creek and encourage your participation – be it by learning about your local creek on a nature walk, planting native plants in your garden, or providing ideas to get your community engaged in environmental initiatives. We invite you to keep reading to learn about the new Highland Creek Neighbourhood Greening Project, upcoming events, community profiles and ways you can join us in making the Highland an even better place to live.
Keri McMahon
Project Manager, Watershed Management
Back to top Community Projects in the Highland
With funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, TRCA is working with the City of Toronto and community organizations to engage communities in the planning and implementation of greening projects right in their own neighbourhoods. Join us at clean up events, tree-plantings in local parks, Healthy Yards workshops, and nature walks focusing on the path of water through the city. Together we’re working to improve our neighbourhoods and address key environmental issues facing the watershed – urban stomwater runoff and impacts to terrestrial habitat features.
Photo: Members of Centennial College's Environment Students Society during a break at the 2010 Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup event in Morningside Park.
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Back to top Community Profile: Centennial College
 During the fall semester of 2010, students of Centennial College’s Environmental Protection Technology program were challenged to produce neighbourhood concept plans. These plans presented ideas for greening initiatives to address urban stormwater management, terrestrial habitat improvements, and green energy opportunities within the Highland Creek watershed. This is their story.
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Back to top Spring has Sprung!
 Spring is here at last and it’s time to get ready to enjoy your outdoor space. Here are 5 easy tips to spruce up your yard or balcony while keeping the air, water and soil of your local environment in mind.
1. Tidy your yard
2. Feed your lawn
3. Prep your pots
4. Tending and planting trees and shrubs
5. Plant native wildflowers
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Back to top TRCA Releases The Living City Report Card
 Our Living City is at a crossroads. Carbon emissions, air and water quality, waste management, land use and biodiversity are the environmental measures of a flourishing living city. This report card captures their state of health across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) is in better environmental shape now than it has been in recent years, though the region needs to make substantial improvements to get to where it needs to be, according to The Living City® Report Card, released on January 31st by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) and CivicAction's Greening Greater Toronto.
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