Ecology Ottawa

Ecology Ottawa welcomes new community waste diversion funding, urges improvements

Ecology Ottawa delegated to City Council's Environment and Climate Change Committee meeting today to support a proposed new funding stream for community waste diversion initiatives and urge several improvements. This new funding responds directly to advocacy by Ecology Ottawa dating to 2024. Over 250 people signed the petition, and Committee members explicitly cited community input as influencing this proposal.

Ecology Ottawa urges improved bike parking in the new Zoning By-law

Ottawa City Council’s Planning and Housing Committee and Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee met on December 17 in a joint meeting to discuss the final draft of Ottawa’s new Zoning By-law. We learned that staff had proposed undoing some of the gains made on bike parking, which is of course critical to transitioning our city from car dependency to sustainability. Please read our delegation!

Ecology Ottawa calls for community investments in environment in Ottawa’s 2026 Budget

Ecology Ottawa was at Environment and Climate Change Committee to speak to the City’s 2026 budget. While the City is investing in a variety of measures to reduce GHG emissions and strengthen climate resiliency, these measures don’t go far enough. We propose that the City better engage the community, as they committed earlier this fall.

What’s in our Trash? The results of Ottawa’s Four-Season Waste Audit

The Waste Audit is part of Ottawa’s Solid Waste Master Plan, which was approved by City Council in June 2024, as a guide for Ottawa’s waste management over the next 30 years. The information collected from the Waste Audit is meant to identify areas for improvement and trends within waste diversion and management efforts.

What’s in the 2026 municipal budget?

With an over $900M operating budget, our transit system continues to be both expensive and yet unreliable. It’s hard to square the budget’s stated theme of affordability with yet another fare increase, and the so-called “historic investments” with the fact that most money in the budget is for the LRT lines and debt service payments. Trains are expensive, but they do not in themselves constitute a good transit network.

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Active City

An active city connects communities with world-class public transportation builds safe streets for all users, ages and abilities focuses on moving people, not just cars.

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Living City

Integrates nature into the very fabric of urban planning, defend trees, plants, animals, rivers and greenspace, solves challenges by working with - not against - nature.

Renewable City

Knows that 100% renewable energy is 100% possible, says "no" to new fossil fuel infrastructure, creates clean energy jobs.

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15 Minute Neighbourhoods 2024

Climate Equity 2025

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We Watch City Council

We watch over and engage closely with Ottawa City Council. We celebrate environmentally responsible actions, we bring to light the things that hurt our local environment, and we advocate for greater ambition across a range of local issue areas.

We Organize Communities

We work to create a mobilized constituency of Ottawans who demand action and leadership on the environment. We engage thousands of Ottawa residents each year at the door, at events and through their community associations. We do this so that we know – and they know – what local environmental issues are top of mind, and what can be done about them.

We Work in Partnership

The environmental crisis can only be solved by an engaged community working together across various sectors and levels of government. We work to engage and mobilize support from Ottawa residents, political representatives, local businesses, community associations, industry and professional associations, cultural groups and citizens groups.

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Media Releases

Ecology Ottawa challenges City's problematic report on right turn on red

Ecology Ottawa addressed a meeting of Council's Public Works and Infrastructure Committee on Thursday to oppose a report recommending against protecting pedestrians and cyclists downtown with a ban on Right Turns On Red. This report was full of problems: the complete omission of research literature, wholly inadequate statistics, and an acquiescence to dangerous driver behaviour.

How is Ottawa's Urban Tree Canopy Doing?

The City of Ottawa released the results of a Tree Canopy Mapping last September. So what is this, and why is it important? And above all, how is our urban tree canopy doing? Our Council Watch Intern Kristen Busby breaks it down.

Ecology Ottawa welcomes new community waste diversion funding, urges improvements

Ecology Ottawa delegated to City Council's Environment and Climate Change Committee meeting today to support a proposed new funding stream for community waste diversion initiatives and urge several improvements. This new funding responds directly to advocacy by Ecology Ottawa dating to 2024. Over 250 people signed the petition, and Committee members explicitly cited community input as influencing this proposal.

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Ecology Ottawa welcomes new community waste diversion funding, urges improvements

Ecology Ottawa urges improved bike parking in the new Zoning By-law

Ecology Ottawa calls for community investments in environment in Ottawa’s 2026 Budget

What’s in our Trash? The results of Ottawa’s Four-Season Waste Audit

What’s in the 2026 municipal budget?

Our Programs

Active City

Living City

Renewable City

Our Approach

We Watch City Council

We Organize Communities

We Work in Partnership

Join Us – Rejoignez-nous

Media Releases

Ecology Ottawa challenges City's problematic report on right turn on red

How is Ottawa's Urban Tree Canopy Doing?

Ecology Ottawa welcomes new community waste diversion funding, urges improvements

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