Manitoba’s Green Living Hub

We’re here to help Manitobans make meaningful changes to improve the environment of our province and our planet. From workshops and events to online resources, Green Action Centre strives to provide information for schools, households, workplaces, and community groups on how to Live Green & Live Well.

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Green Living Resources for Manitobans

Sustainability Resources for Homes

At Green Action Centre, we do our best to integrate our work into our daily lives. Want to learn about backyard composting, or find some great new DIY ideas? Consider signing up for our monthly Living Green, Living Well newsletter or following us on social media. As your ‘Green Living Hub,’ we’re here to help you make choices that improve your health, reduce waste, and connect with issues that improve your community.

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Sustainability Resources for Workplaces

Our workplaces have an ecological footprint. Think of the resources consumed, the waste produced, cleaning products used, and the energy needed to run lights, heat and cool the work space, and operate equipment. Greening our workplaces has multiple benefits – reducing costs, increasing the comfort and efficiency of the work space, boosting the personal well-being of employees, reducing environmental impacts, and meeting the social responsibility goals of the business.

Looking for Green Action Centre’s social enterprise, Compost Winnipeg? Click here for details!

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Sustainability Resources for Schools

A great deal of our programming is aimed at schools and educators, providing them with the resources and support to more deeply integrate sustainability education into their classrooms. Interested in having our environmental educators present to your class? Want to start a walking school bus in your neighbourhood? Interested in composting at your school, or exploring waste reduction through hands-on activities with your students? We can help.

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Sustainability Resources for Communities

Green Action Centre aims to provide environmental solutions and thoughtful policy analysis. Whether you want to start composting in your community, ensure your kids are safe on their way to school, or develop a sustainability committee in your neighbourhood, we’d love to help! Keep an eye on our blog and events pages to stay up-to-date on the green actions we’re involved in, and drop us a line if you’d like to connect.

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Green Living Resources for Manitobans

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Community

Green Action Centre aims to provide a useful source of sound environmental solutions and thoughtful policy analysis. Whether you want to start composting in your community, ensure your kids are safe on their way to school, or develop a sustainability committee in your neighbourhood, we’d love to help! Keep an eye on our blog and events pages to stay up-to-date on the green actions we’re involved in, and drop us a line if you’d like to connect!

Community Resources

Impact by the Numbers

2024/2025

Through innovative programs and support of local champions, more kids are biking and walking to school. Here are some of our accomplishments from this past year.

3500+

Students participated in ASRTS bike and walk events

228

Students participated in Clean Air Day!

10+

Workshops and presentations delivered to students, parents and teachers!

Blog Posts

News, Stories, and Information

Find an engaging mixture of stories, updates, news, and useful information published on a regular basis.

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CHANGING LANES WRAP-UP

On February 25th Green Action Centre welcomed Todd Litman to Winnipeg for a series of meetings and presentations to share his research at the Victoria Transport Institute at Changing Lanes: Better Value For Winnipeg’s Transportation Investments.

CHANGING LANES WRAP-UP

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January 28, 2026

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Jack Frost Challenge - 2026

There's snow doubt about it, the Jack Frost Challenge is back for its fifteenth year!

Jack Frost Challenge - 2026

There's snow doubt about it, the Jack Frost Challenge is back for its fifteenth year!

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Events

In your community and beyond

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Resources

For Green Living in Manitoba

Our resources, guides, tools, and presentations cover all kinds of topics, areas of focus, and skill levels for people of all ages and demographics

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July 8, 2019

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How to be a Conscientious Camper

Going beyond "Leave No Trace"

How to be a Conscientious Camper

Going beyond "Leave No Trace"

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Composting Basics and Getting Started

Backyard composting is a cost effective method that is particularly appealing for gardening, as they’re able to use the finished product as organic fertilizer.

Composting Basics and Getting Started

Backyard composting is a cost effective method that is particularly appealing for gardening, as they’re able to use the finished product as organic fertilizer.

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Presentations
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For acquiring skills, awareness, and knowledge.

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Rag Rug Workshop

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Protecting Mother Earth

Intended for First Nation classrooms, this presentation provides a basic understanding of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in relation to Indigenous worldviews – how we are connected with the planet and how we must find a harmonious balance with our environment for the sake of the next seven generations. This includes actions students can take at home, in school, or within their community. Examples will explore what other schools in First Nation communities around Manitoba are doing to reduce their impact on Mother Earth.

Protecting Mother Earth

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Programming

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Active And Safe Routes to School

Active and Safe Routes to School (ASRTS) is a set of programs and services coordinated by Green Action Centre to reverse the trend of driving children to school.

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First Nations Waste Minimization Program

Minimizing and reducing waste in your community can result in immediate environmental benefits, both locally and globally.

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Compost
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Together, we can keep methane producing organic waste out of the landfill. Compost Winnipeg collects a wide variety of organics including meat, bones, dairy, compostable packaging and soiled pizza boxes.

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Workplace Commuter Options

Explore knowledge, policy alternatives, provide tracking and evaluation, and advise on green infrastructure choices to help make sustainable commuting both appealing and within reach.

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EVENT

Jack Frost Challenge

Gather a team of 1-5 family members, friends, or co-workers to complete 130 total kilometres of walking, running, biking, skating, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, tobogganing, & more!

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TOOL

GoManitoba

Find a sustainable way to commute. Explore Commuting Options in Your Area.

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Did You Know

The amount of waste in Manitoba landfills that could have been composted is 40%. If everyone in Manitoba committed to composting, we could divert almost half of the waste that ends up in landfills!

Canadians toss over 3 million tonnes of plastic every year - 47% of which is single use plastic packaging for food, beverage and personal care items. Imagine if we all said no to single-use plastic packaging - we could cut Canada's plastic waste in half!

Transportation in Manitoba, including road, rail, marine, air and off-road vehicles, is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions associated with climate change. It accounts for 37% of GHG emissions in our province.

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Manitoba’s Green Living Hub

Green Living Resources for Manitobans

Sustainability Resources for Homes

Sustainability Resources for Workplaces

Sustainability Resources for Schools

Sustainability Resources for Communities

Green Living Resources for Manitobans

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School

Community

Impact by the Numbers

2024/2025

Blog Posts

News, Stories, and Information

CHANGING LANES WRAP-UP

CHANGING LANES WRAP-UP

Jack Frost Challenge - 2026

Jack Frost Challenge - 2026

Events

In your community and beyond

Resources

For Green Living in Manitoba

How to be a Conscientious Camper

How to be a Conscientious Camper

Composting Basics and Getting Started

Composting Basics and Getting Started

Presentations and Workshops

For acquiring skills, awareness, and knowledge.

Rag Rug Workshop

Rag Rug Workshop

Protecting Mother Earth

Protecting Mother Earth

Programming

Active And Safe Routes to School

First Nations Waste Minimization Program

CompostWinnipeg

Workplace Commuter Options

Jack Frost Challenge

GoManitoba

Did You Know

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