Press Coverage

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2025

MMSB Champions for a Greener Future: Western Environment Centre

CBC Newfoundland Morning Radio Interview: How communities deal with sewage and stormwater is a big issue, and wastewater monitoring is a heavy burden on NL towns (Mar 5, 2025)

Saltwire News Article: Want to start a garden? A new seed program launched at Corner Brook library can help (April 26, 2025)

CBC Newfoundland Morning Radio Interview: C if for carrot, T is for tomato. Home gardeners can search through a repurposed card catalog this spring and get seeds for free at Corner Brook’s public library (April 25, 2025)

2024

NTV News: Corner Brook greenhouse dome paying dividends (Aug 2, 2024)

NTV News: New Corner Brook greenhouse draws attention for unique design (May 29, 2024)

Le Gaboteur: L'innovation agricole: un succès estival à Corner Brook (Sept 9, 2024)

NTV News: Volunteer group dedicated to harvesting, distributing surplus urban fruit (Oct 13, 2024)

CBC Newfoundland Morning Radio Interview: Environmental group makes city a greener place, one compost bin at a time (Oct 29, 2024)

2023

CBC Newfoundland Morning Radio Interview: Foraging in the forest to find fungi for food (Sept 8, 2023) LINK NOT AVAILABLE

CBC News Article: An 'oasis of green' in an industrial parking lot: Corner Brook gets a new greenhouse (June 10, 2023)

Saltwire News Article: New downtown Corner Brook greenhouse aims to keep conversation about food sustainability ‘out in the open’ (June 5, 2023)

Sunnyslope Neighbours Magazine Article: Western Environment Centre Growing Like a Breeze (Issue 66 May 2023)

CBC Newfoundland Morning Radio Interview: Katie Temple on sourdough bread making classes (Jan 4, 2023) LINK NOT AVAILABLE

2022

Saltwire News Article: Growing opportunity: Corner Brook collaboration sets up geodesic greenhouse project (Dec 16, 2022)

CBC Newfoundland Morning Radio Interview: They’ll build it from the ground up (Dec 13, 2022) LINK NOT AVAILABLE

Fit to Eat Podcast S3E7: Western Environment Centre and community gardens (Dec 2022)

CBC Radio The Signal (Crosstalk) Interview: Composting and homesteading (Nov 22,  2022) LINK NOT AVAILABLE

CBC News Article: 'No need to rush' on wind farm impact assessment, says environmental group Aug 25, 2022

2021

CBC News Article: No fruit left behind! Fruit-picking program opens in Humber Valley (Aug 29, 2021)

CBC News Article: Community composting tackling food waste in Corner Brook, one house at a time (July 21, 2021)

SaltWire News Article: Going to waste in Corner Brook… and that’s a good thing (Mar 12, 2021)

Sunnyslope Neighbours Magazine Article: Meet Katie Temple of the WEC (Issue 44 July 2021)

2018

SaltWire News Article: Katie Temple of Corner Brook's Western Environment Centre welcomes details of western region's new garbage and recycling program (May 16, 2018)

SaltWire News Article: Gardeners learn about no-till gardening during workshop in Little Rapids (May 6, 2018)