2025 Initiatives

Spring and Fall 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!

Order Bags!

Orchards

Aiming to increase our environmental sustainability and food stability, CGB has planted orchards around North Bay. Since 2020, CGB has planted 14 orchards in and around the city, at local schoolyards and organizations. 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 continue in 2025 with the donation multiple grants! In 2024, $1000 was given to two schools and organizations who created a CGB innovative project to enhance their school or grounds. Stay tuned for garden updates.

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!

Streetscapes

Clean, Green, Beautiful proudly launched the 2025 Streetscapes Program, recognizing outstanding lawns, landscapes, and storefronts that enhance the beauty of North Bay. This annual initiative celebrates properties that exemplify beautification, environmental responsibility, and civic pride.

Streetscapes saw the expansion of 6 categories this year and received

170 Nominations! To view the 2025 Winners and categories, click below.

Streetscapes has also expanded in 2025 to include two new competitions. Fall 2025 saw the addition of the "Fall Décor Photo Contest" and Winter 2025 will see the addition of the "Snow Place Like Home" competition.

Learn more about Streetscapes

Adopt-A-Highway

CGB adopted the section of Highway 11 from the Stockfish Ford, all the way to the North Bay Regional Health Centre. In 2025, we hosted three group highway cleanups and look forward to hosting more highway cleanups in 2026!

Murals

In 2025, CGB has expanded our Public Art initiative to include the beautifully done mural installed on the McIntyre Street, at the former City Laundry

(497 McIntyre Street East). This mural was designed and painted by local artist, Corbin Elliot, and the project was led by Mural Lead, Tom Richardson. This initiative aims to bring beauty to every neighbourhood in North Bay.

Hydro-Boxes

CGB is in the process of wrapping 10 Hydro-Boxes / Transformers along Main Street to add to the beauty of our downtown core. All art is done by local artists. Interested in sponsoring a box? Email cleangreenbeautifulnb@gmail.com!

Giveaways

This year, CGB has given away Reusable Pocket Ashtrays to help prevent cigarette butt litter on our streets and in our waterways. We also have printed physical copies of our litter pickup safety handbooks for all volunteers to bring with them on their pickups.

Public Education

CGB continues to work towards increase public education regarding environmental stewardship and the shared responsibility of our planet. Social media educational campaigns included "Think Before You Flick" (Cigarette Butt), "Say No to Plastics", "Edible Gardens" and more.

CGB has also hosted "Ask an Arborist" sessions at local markets, and video shorts to increase public awareness and education regarding tree care. All schools receiving trees, will also receive "I am a Living Being" tree care tags to ensure proper maintenance can occur.