Shoreline Cleanups
Take action and contribute to shoreline conservation efforts by leading a cleanup with your community! Preserve the health and beauty of Canada’s freshwater by picking up litter and tracking what you find.
- Checklist for Solo and Small Team Shoreline Cleanup by Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
- Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup poster
- Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup waiver forms
- Guide to Solo Shoreline Cleanups (safely during COVID-19 pandemic) by Ottawa Riverkeeper
- Site Coordinator Guide by Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
- Individual Data Card by Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
- Organizing Your Own Cleanup by Ottawa Riverkeeper
- Plastic Pollution in the Laurentian Great Lakes – What we know and how we can act handout by Watersheds Canada and University of Toronto
- “The Problem with Plastics” blog
- “Microbeads – Not a Very Tiny Piece of Jewellery” blog
- “Using Benthic Macro-invertebrates as a Way to Assess Aquatic Pollution Levels” blog
- “Canada Prepares to Ban Single-Use Plastics” blog
- “Know, and love, your lake!” blog
- City Stream Watch 2019 Summary Report by Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority, Rideau Valley Conservation Authority, and South Nation Conservation
- Inland Waters Biodiversity – What’s the Problem? by Convention on Biological Diversity
- Protecting Canada’s Wetlands by Nature Conservancy of Canada
- Making a Splash Activity Book by 4-H Canada
- Wetlands by Canadian Wildlife Federation
- Wetlands factsheet by Hinterland Who’s Who
- “Algae: Pond Scum or Essential?” blog
- The Riparian Zone handout by Watersheds Canada
- “The Many Health Benefits of Nature” blog
- “Septic Systems: they may be out of sight, but they shouldn’t be out of mind!” blog
- “Top 5 Ways to Support Winter Wildlife” blog
- “Stay Natural, Stay Safe around Ticks” blog
- “Happy Earth Day! 3 Free and Easy Ways to Create Wildlife Habitat” blog
- Who Can I Reach Out to for Future Projects? handout by Watersheds Canada and Greening Sacred Spaces
- A Muslim’s Guide to Climate Change by Bahu Trust and Kamran Shezad
- Faith and the Environment Toolkit by Community Environment Alliance retrieved from Faith & the Common Good
- A Guide to Developing a ‘Green Team’ in Your Faith Community by Faith & the Common Good
- Water Smart – Protecting Water from Source to Tap by City of Ottawa
This collection of resources is a part of the Freshwater Stewardship Engagement Toolkit which was created for the Ottawa Faith Community Capacity Building Program. Watersheds Canada and Greening Sacred Spaces launched this program to provide faith communities in Ottawa and the surrounding area with the tools and resources their leaders and volunteers need to identify a freshwater stewardship need in their community. Six faith communities will lead greening projects using this information toolkit and microgrant program opportunity. Thank you to the Ottawa Community Foundation and TD Friends of the Environment Foundation for making this important project possible!