TEA Actions to Grow the Greenbelt into Toronto
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2009: TEA starts talking to City Councillors about growing the Greenbelt into public lands along the Humber and Don River Valleys 2010: City Council agrees to grow the Greenbelt -in principle- into Toronto 2011: TEA works with other organizations to get the Province to change the Greenbelt Plan to allow urban river valleys to become part of the Greenbelt. 2012: TEA collects over 500 signatures in two weeks to support a Provincial proposal to change the Greenbelt Plan to allow public lands in urban river valleys to become part of the Greenbelt. 2013: TEA collects over 1,500 letters of support from Torontonians to City Councillors asking them to act and grow the Greenbelt into Toronto. 2014 (February): TEA succeeds in getting City Council to the next step in growing the Greenbelt into Toronto. (Etobicoke Creek is added by Council, and staff is directed to begin the process.) 2014 (March): TEA works to focus public support for growing the Greenbelt, leading up to an anticipated City Council vote in June.
 Fall Colors along the East Don River (S. Wineland)
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