Air Quality Home

Welcome to Green Venture's Air Quality section. The goals of our Air Quality programs are to:

• reduce damaging air pollutants in Hamilton
• increase physical activity levels
• slow climate change

Green Venture’s air quality and greenhouse gas reduction programs focus on transportation choices and individual and organizational behavioural change. Green Venture encourages Hamiltonians to embrace active and sustainable modes of travel over single occupancy vehicle trips. Currently, most Hamiltonians drive alone. These trips lead to unnecessary and dramatic increases in both air pollution and greenhouse gas emission.

In the short term Green Venture promotes smart driving practices such as reduced idling and driving technques to increase fuel efficiency.  In the long term, Green Venture is committed to helping Hamiltonians shift to transportation modes such as public transit, walking, cycling and carpooling, that produce less or no harmful emissions. 

Green Venture receives funding and support from Clean Air Hamilton on many of our air quality initiatives. 

Green Venture is proud to be a partner in Hamilton's newest community car free event - Open Streets Hamilton.  The next Open Streets Hamilton event is June 12, 2011.  Come join us on James Street in this temporary urban park.

Green Venture's current Air Quality programs are: