November 30, 2011
(Red Deer, Alberta) – An upcoming program for residents, Residential Composting for Red Deerians, was recently selected by the Shell Fuelling Change program to receive a grant of $10,000. Now through a voting process Red Deer has the opportunity to receive an additional grant for a total of $25,000 for the composting program. The City of Red Deer will be launching the residential organics composting program in the spring of 2012, with the goal of increasing awareness and participation in compositing at home.
The City of Red Deer is delivering a challenge to all Red Deerians to go online and vote at fuellingchange.com for Red Deer’s residential composting program. It is easy to vote: just log in, create a profile and automatically you are given 10 votes. Additional votes can be gained by using receipts from a Shell Station.
“We received the news from Shell that our project had been accepted by the FuellingChange program in late-October,” said Bailey Doepker, Environmental Program Specialist. “The voting process started a couple of weeks ago and a number of projects already have a lot of votes, but I feel Red Deerians have a great sense of community and competitiveness, which will help us to catch up.”
The idea behind FuellingChange is social investment program that grants $1 million each year to environmental projects that improve the state of Canada’s Land, Air and Water. Applications that meet the criteria for FuellingChange submissions were uploaded onto a website so the public and Shell customers can vote for their favourite environmental projects. Shell will then award grants in the amount of $25,000, $50,000 and $100,000 to initiatives that receive the most votes in the categories of Land, Air and Water.
For more information on this initiative please visit fuellingchange.com
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For more information, please contact:
Bailey Doepker
Environmental Programs Specialist
The City of Red Deer
403-342-8750
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