2025 Initiatives

Spring Community Wide Cleanup

The foundation, and the first critical step for a CGB city, is the Spring Community Wide Cleanup. It's hard to create community connection, lovely gathering spaces, and beautiful venues if a space is full of litter or offensive graffiti or weeds in cracks and crevices.

Each year since 2019, businesses and organizations have stepped up to sponsor our CGB bags and many of these sponsors are doing their own pickups with their employees, patrons and students, and getting involved in beautifying their own spaces. Bags are ordered by the participants and delivered by volunteers right to their door. Teams of volunteers hit the streets, trails and parks for this event, Litter pickups are ongoing Spring to Fall and CGB biodegradable bags are picked up free of charge on your regular garbage pickup day by Miller Waste.

Looking to start your litter pickup? Click below to order your bags. Looking to plan a pickup for your business or organization? Email us at cleangreenbeautifulnb@gmail.com to coordinate!

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What else are our community volunteers doing for CGB?

Orchards

Aiming to increase our environmental sustainability and food stability, CGB has planted orchards around North Bay. Since 2020, CGB has planted 12 orchards in and around the city, with 2 more to be planted this coming season. Apple, Pear and Plum are hardy to our area.

Greening School Yards

Planting shade trees, will continue at multiple schools this year. Planting shade trees creates green spaces for children and staff, while providing educational opportunities of the importance of sustainability principles. We're raising the bar of kindness for plants and people.

School Beautification Grants

School Beautification Grants will continue in 2025 as well! In 2024 ($1000) was given as well, to two schools and organizations who created a CGB innovative project to enhance their school or grounds.

Community Gardens

In 2025, we plan to continue to identify local areas and assisted them in creating or enhancing vegetable gardens, food forests, to add a welcoming aesthetic presence, food for their community and social connection opportunities for residents in that area. Creating edible gardens is a great way to promote sustainability practices and is the 2025 Communities in Bloom theme!