Pelham Business Association supports environmental sustainability

By For PelhamNEWS

Posted 2 years ago

The Pelham Business Association will rallying its members to build awareness about environmental sustainability within the Pelham community.

Lee Norton, a certified presentation specialist of Climate Project: Canada, will speak at the PBA’s next Business Showcase at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 12, at the Urban Steakhouse and Lounge.

In April 2008, with the support of Dr. David Suzuki, former American vice president Al Gore brought together 275 carefully selected Canadians to participate in a training session based on the messages of his 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

Out of this collaboration Climate Project: Canada was born.

Norton, building on the latest scientific research, has developed an updated presentation entitled Climate Disruption. It addresses questions such as how climate change impacts food, energy supplies and world peace, the PBA said in a news release.

It further outlines what cities, countries and Canada are doing to address climate change as well as what individual consumers and business owners can do to make a difference.

One of the messages of the PBA’s soon to be launched Pelham Think Local marketing campaign highlights the environmental benefits of shopping locally for good and services.

“Not only do local stores help to sustain vibrant walkable town centres”, said PBA community affairs director Cathy Berkhout-Bosse, “but as active participants in the daily life of the community where we live, we recognize that we are more directly accountable for our own environmental practices both at home and in our businesses.”