The national capital’s leading local environmental group, Ecology Ottawa, will be hosting its most exciting event of the year, the 5th annual Great Glebe GREEN Garage Sale, on Saturday, May 26 at 680 & 690 Bank Street (at Glebe Avenue, in the Rogers Plus and Kunstadt Sports parking lots).
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Ecology Ottawa turns trash into treasure with the Great Glebe GREEN Garage Sale
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Take action to protect our rivers
Take action to protect our rivers
Every year, the City of Ottawa dumps hundreds of millions of litres of untreated sewage directly into the Ottawa River. Now you have an opportunity to help stop this travesty once and for all.
Please click here to sign a petition addressed to all Ottawa area MPs, MPPs urging them to ensure that funding for the Ottawa River Action Plan flows soon.
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John Baird is suggesting that Ottawa should choose between clean water and light rail transit
April 17, 2012 At a March 30 post-budget breakfast address to the Ottawa business community Ottawa-West Nepean MP John Baird remarked that ongoing spills of raw sewage into the Ottawa River went beyond being an environmental issue, he felt it was a moral issue. He fell short, however, of pointing to any line item in [...]
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Archived: Protect our rivers from untreated sewage (federal 2012 Budget campaign)
April 3, 2012 [Please note: the campaign related to the federal 2012 Budget has now concluded; we are re-tooling the overall campaign and will re-launch it very soon] Take Action to Protect our Rivers Every year, the City of Ottawa dumps hundreds of millions of litres of untreated sewage directly into the Ottawa River. Now [...]
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Press release: Environment Committee to discuss bold new vision (or total waste of taxpayers’ money)
Feb. 21, 2012 (Ottawa) — The City of Ottawa’s Environment Committee is set to discuss three plans today that fall under the heading of Choosing our Future. These plans are the result of a four-year planning process and, if fully embraced, they would save Ottawa residents billions of dollars a year in energy costs, increase support for local farmers, help protect our parks and rivers, promote high-tech businesses, and build a world class public transportation system, among many other things. However, the staff report to be approved at Committee today does not commit the city to do much more than “receive” the plans.
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Ottawa River Action Plan Responses from area Members of Parliament
February 3, 2012 From: paul.dewar@parl.gc.ca Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Subject: RE: Please commit to funding the Ottawa River Action Plan Thank you for your email regarding the Ottawa River Action Plan. I have repeatedly called on the government to take action to protect the Ottawa River, which is now designated a national heritage river. [...]
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Internship Opportunity (Digital Skills, Graphic Design, Social Media)
February 1, 2012 INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY Position: YMCA Digital Skills, Graphic Design, Social Media Intern Type: full-time, 20 week paid internship (late-February to mid-July 2012) Compensation: $16.00/hour, 40 hours/week Organization: Ecology Ottawa www.ecologyottawa.ca Location: Ottawa, Ontario Application deadline: before the end of the day on Sunday, February 12, 2012 Internship Project Description The successful candidate will [...]
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Press release: Ecology Ottawa praises the NCC’s greenbelt expansion plan, denounces developers opposed to the idea
Jan. 26, 2012 (Ottawa) — Ecology Ottawa praised the National Capital Commission (NCC) today for its plan to further expand Ottawa’s greenbelt and denounced members of the development community who are already working to undermine this responsible move. “The NCC’s intention to add a 10 per cent expansion beyond the existing Greenbelt over 50 years is exactly that type of visionary idea that Ottawa needs more of,” said Graham Saul, chair of Ecology Ottawa.
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Media Clips — July-December 2011
January 25, 2012 Three hours and 57 minutes … Ottawa Citizen, December 22 2011 By Patricia LeBouef OTTAWA — VIA Rail says new express trains to be added Jan. 24 will travel between Ottawa and Toronto in three hours and 57 minutes — the quickest time ever between the national and provincial capitals. VIA Rail [...]
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Municipal Financing of Energy Efficiency Retrofits
January 23, 2012 In a presentation to the Environment Committee during the 2012 Draft Budget consultations, Ecology Ottawa recommended the City undertake the following three clean energy and energy efficiency initiatives in 2012: 1. Municipal Financing of Energy Retrofits. We are asking that the City fund a feasibility study of a municipal financing program for [...]
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