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Recent Posts
Celebrating the Champlain Oaks Project: Riverine Forest Gets New Trees
On Saturday, September 17, 2016, Riverine Forest was the site of an important urban tree planting project. Riverine Forest is a small woodland located on the edge of Champlain Park in the Westboro neighbourhood of Ottawa. Residents and volunteers from the Champlain Park Community Association (CPCA), with the support of the National Capital Commission (NCC), […]
Why do we need a Pathmaker?
Why this position at this time? Ecology Ottawa is a not-for-profit, grassroots and volunteer-driven organization working to make Ottawa the green capital of Canada. We have been working on sustainable transportation for five years through advocacy on issues like complete streets, light rail, bike lanes, street design, accessibility and funding for cycling and pedestrian infrastructure. […]
Trees Cooperate and Communicate on the Forest Internet
Trees have an internet all their own. Hidden deep under those tree trunks is an intricate communication system with hubs and networks. But this internet is not a place of selfies and cat videos, it’s a complex system of cooperation and sharing. Suzanne Simard, a professor and professional forester at the University of British […]
The Summer of Consultations: Ottawa and the Theatre of Listening
Last spring, the Premiers of the country met in Vancouver. The meeting led to the Vancouver Declaration on Clean Growth and Climate Change. This meeting was the follow-up to the government committing to 1.5 degrees’ maximum of global warming in Paris, last fall. In Vancouver, the federal government decided to set up a public consultation […]
Welcoming the March to Save our Rivers
(Le français suit) Join Ecology Ottawa on Saturday, August 20th at Major’s Hill Park at 2:30PM to welcome the March to Save our Rivers organized by STOP Oléoduc Outaouais! The marchers will be entering the City of Ottawa and head to Parliament Hill, having marched for 6 days, all the way from Saint-André d’Argenteuil, along […]
Conversations about pipelines at Bytown Day; a volunteer’s experience
I began an internship with Ecology Ottawa just over a month ago working on data management and communications. This position means that I spend all of my time in the office and not exactly at the forefront of the three campaigns, like our campaign leads, interns and volunteers. However on the Monday of the August […]
#Goals: Grow an Old Growth Forest in Your Backyard
Imagine if you could say, “In the next 10 years, I will grow an established 100 year old forest in my backyard.” Seems like an outlandish idea, especially if you live in the downtown area. But Shubhendu Sharma, an entrepreneur and forest facilitator, does just that. He’s helped plant 75 thriving forests in 25 cities […]
Lessons from Life: Why I joined Ecology Ottawa
I first came to know about Ecology Ottawa when I was looking for summer internships, and I mean, what better way to profess my love to the environment by joining the Ottawa city renewable team! My passion for the environment sparked during the BP oil spill. The spill caused a lot of harm to the […]
New Technology to Change Climate Change
In recent weeks climate change have been shown by heatwaves (more than 50C) in Iraq and India (Paul Rogers, 2016). Climate scientists have already warned about global temperature disruption. Measures have been taken and many states participated in the Paris climate summit in December. It was agreed that a limit of 1.5C should be reached […]
Orleans Climate Town Hall Meeting: Progress Being Made Within Imperfection
On Wednesday, July 20th, the Shenkman Arts Centre in Orléans hosted the last of Ottawa’s Canada Climate Action consultations. With over 100 people filling the room, Ecology Ottawa volunteers hurried to get extra chairs into the tightly packed room. The consultation started with brief presentations by Orleans MP Andrew Leslie and MPP Marie-France Lalonde: they […]
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- Ottawa behind in embracing disruptive technology: Hubley | Metro NewsBy Emma Jackson, Ottawa Metro News, September 29, 2016 Ottawa’s lagging behind when it comes to adopting new tech in city planning, one councillor says. Kanata South Coun. Allan Hubley said Ottawa staff should be looking at new, innovative ways of processing garbage, designing roads and building city infrastructure if the capital wants to keep […]
- Here’s why we can’t endanger long-term farm research for hospital site | Ottawa CitizenBy Ed Gregorich, Ottawa Citizen, September 29, 2016 Fast-growing global population. No additional land for agriculture. Climate change. These three pressures, linked through the process of food production, will become more daunting as we move toward 2050. That is the year, predicts the United Nations, when the world population will reach nine billion. To fee […]
- It’s a hospital, not a bawdy house. Experimental Farm is the best site | Ottawa CitizenBy Mohamed Adam, Ottawa Citizen, September 29, 2016 Enough handwringing over the location of the new Civic campus of the Ottawa Hospital. Let’s build it on the Central Experimental Farm where it belongs, and I guarantee you the sky will not fall. We will all wake up safe and sane the morning after the decision […]
