Category — In the Media

The Peterborough Examiner, May 28  

Pre-fabricated straw bale walls being installed.

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CHEX Newswatch May 28, 2009

Pre-fabricated straw bale walls being delivered and installed. Watch below or click chex_envirocentre to view clip

One of Canada’s most sustainable buildings
Chris Magwood discusses Trent University’s Camp Kawartha Environment Centre

March 15, 2009

Trent University will soon be home to one of Canada’s most sustainable buildings: the Camp Kawartha Environment Centre in Peterborough. The eco-friendly building will serve as a venue to teach children as well as future teachers. Construction will begin this April.

Jacob Rodenburg, the executive director of Camp Kawartha, and also a teacher at Trent University, came up with the idea for the new building. Rodenburg felt that it was necessary to create an environmental centre of this kind because future teachers, currently enrolled in teachers college, need a place where they can earn practical hands-on-experience to teach children about the environment.
“When you teach children to build a love for the environment, they’ll also want to protect it,” Rodenburg says. The building will represent a place where children will have the opportunity to learn about the environment, as well as learn about what they can do to protect it.

Rodenburg’s dream to build a sustainable environment centre will come true thanks in part to a generous donation of $100,000 by The Gainey Foundation, which was founded by Bob Gainey (general manager of the Montreal Canadiens and also a Peterborough native), and his family to honour both his late wife and daughter.

Chris Magwood, who founded The Sustainable Building Design and Construction Program at Fleming College in Haliburton, will take on the job of building the centre, with the help of his students…

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Airdate: January 29, 2009