Welcome to our Green Door Newsletter Index. Below you will find the description of the articles in each issue of our newsletter and a link to the publication.

Quick Reference by subject to Green Door issues.

HERITAGE    GD # 3, 4, 14, 19, 20, 21, 22
INDIGENOUS   GD # 3, 6, 7, 11, 20, 21
ENVIRO SERIES   GD # 10.12 13.14
RESEARCH STUDIES GD # 3,5,6,9,11,13,19, 22
PROGRAMS   GD # 11,14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22
OUR STATUS  GD #   17, 24

2024

#28 March – Link

• Urban Park Guelph Update
• Climate Change Survey
• Seedy Saturday
• Artspirations

2023

#27 November – Link

• National Urban Park Petition
• National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
• YGH 10th Anniversary
• Our Home on Native Land

#26 August – Link

• YGH’s role in Guelph City Culture Plan
• Noticing Nature 2023
• Indigenous Yorklands Connections and National Urban Park Vision
• 2nd Annual Tree Festival

2022

#24 December – Link

• The Ontario Government’s Bill 23 opens up the Greenbelt to highways and sprawl
• YGH Status Update
• Montreal COP on Biodiversity update
• Ontario Trillium Foundation grant provides YGH with new staff 

#23 September – Link

• Community meeting at the end of September to discuss OR district parklands public
• Setting Yorklands Heritage Protective Boundaries
• Community composter project with the Compost Queens and Royal City Brewery
• Fall school programs

#22 June – Link

• “Have your say”: A call to share stories of Yorklands Green Hub
•  Summer 2022 Walkathon
• University of Guelph historical research on: the superintendent’s house, sustainability at the OR and the stone walls.

#21 January – Link

• Every Child Matters gathering
• Walkathon 2021 Fundraiser
• YGH wins the A.K. Skulthorpe Award for Advocacy
• Polli-Patch program, year 2

2021

#20 July – Link

• Citizens voices carry heritage victory: unanimous support from Guelph city council
• New Foodster school program gets students growing
• Colour Yorklands Art exhibit at East End library
• Paddle the Grand with Two Row Wampum and the Haudenosaunee

#19 February – Link 

• Heritage strategy key step with site sale
• Black History month
• January snow sculptures

2020

#18 December – Link

• YGH brings on new staff
• Updates on site acquisition
• Meet new board members
• Artspiration and Kites summaries
• Urban Agriculture Grant update

#17 September – Link

• YGH Quest Confronts an About-Face
• Summer Polli-Patch Program Connects People and Pollinators
• Yorkie the Frog Becomes Virtual Site Guide
• Kites For Yorklands

#16 May – Link

• Enviro-Series Pollinator Talk
• YGH Goes Online in Pandemic Time
• YGH’s Pilot Polli-Patch Project Welcomed
• Community Workshops Move YGH Vision Forward
• Guelph;s 2020 2Rivers Festival Goes Virtually on Riverbanks
• YGH 2020 Annual General Meeting Went Virtual 30 Vote in New Board
• Guelpher Features Yorklands Site in Spring Issue

#15 January – Link

• Ontario Trillium Foundation Grant brings a new Outreach and Engagement Coordinator, Amy Barnes and Scaled Purpose of YGH research
• “Artspiration 2019”
• Winter Walking at Yorklands

2019

#14 October – Link

• “Noticing Nature” Summer Program
• “Art in Nature” Plein Air
• Enviro Series on “Heritage of the Ontario Reformatory”

#13 March – Link

• Great Cities have Great Parks
• YGH and UN Sustainable Development Goals
• Resilience Festival 2019 Speakers
• Enviro Series on “Our Food Future”
• University of Guelph partnership with Applied Human Geography students

#12 January – Link

• 5th Anniversary Gala
• Enviro Series #3 on WATER
• Enviro Series #4 on ENERGY
• Speedwell Hospital

2018

#11 September – Link

• Part-time Executive Director statement 
• University of Guelph CESI survey
• Indigenous Arts at OR
• Noticing Nature art program pilot
• New immigrants visit to learn about our groundwater water cycle and trees

#10 April – Link

• Solar greenhouses and the ARK
• Enviro Series #1 on FOOD
• Enviro Series #2 on HERITAGE

#9 January – Link

• Guelph Museum support and display
• Organic Conference 2018
• University of Waterloo student collaborations
• University of Birmingham student design for pavilion
• Kortright centre visit, and Evergreen Brickworks visit by board members

2017

#8 September – Link

• Ontario Streams and RARE at YGH
• 2017 AGM with Bob Giza and creek restoration
• Go Fund Me

#7 January – Link

• Guelph Innovation District Plans 
• ArtspirationShow
• G360 at University of Guelph Groundwater research
• Importance of partnerships
• Mobile Learning Lab

2016

#6 May – Link

• Making History
• University of Guelph ICON class designs for Mobile Learning Lab
• Brownfield research & YGH
• 2016 AGM with Prof. Gary Warrick of Wilfred Laurier University

#5 January – link

• Tiny Houses
• University of Waterloo students landscape  and planning designs
• Drumlin Farm Fundraiser

2015

#4 August – Link

• Janes Walk 2015
• Bugging the Eramosa River
• O.R. agricultural legacy
• Fall event at Drumlin Farm
• Elevator Project

#3 April – Link

• Superintendant’s house
• University of Guelph Landscape Architecture class designs for our future
• Visit to Evergreen Brickworks
• GRCA Heritage Day at Legion
• Indigenous History
• Endorsed by Canadian Solar

2014

#2 June – Link

• City Council moves “to support in principle the vision of Yorklands Green Hub as part of the Guelph Innovation District Plan”.
• Clythe Creek checkup by Ontario Streams
• Jane’s Walk 2014, Bioblitz with Nature Guelph and Trout Unlimited

#1 January – Link

• Our vision and mission, early endorsing organizations, visit to MPP Sandals. Citizens supporting Ontario’s prosperous and sustainable future.
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