We believe that Ottawa residents are concerned about issues such as climate change, pollution and waste, and that they want sustainable communities where clean energy, air, and water, public transit, active transportation and greenspace protection take priority. We provide residents with the information and tools needed to understand local environmental issues and promote environmental leadership at all levels impacting the City of Ottawa.

Our Programs

Active City

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.

Breathe Easy

Vision Zero

Safe Streets

Living City

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.

Biodiversity

Tree Campaign

Green Infrastructure

Renewable City

Renewable City

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

 

Electric School Buses

Ottawa Climate Equity

15 Minute Neighbourhoods

 

Our Approach

We Watch City Council

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 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

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

Join us in oppostition to Bill 23!

Join us in oppostition to Bill 23!

The Province's Bill 23 'More Homes Built Faster Act', uses the housing crisis as a cover for destroying tenant and environmental protections. All the while building unaffordable homes on wetlands & farmland and bankrupting municipalities across Ontario.
Join Ottawa ACORN, Ecology Ottawa, Horizon, CAWI, city councillors and the many other organizations and residents organizing against Bill 23 for a rally on Wednesday, December 7th at 9AM at the Provincial Courthouse (161 Elgin St).
Public consultations on the bill end Dec 9th - we need all of Ottawa to stand together against Bill 23! You can RSVP to attend the rally here.
Bill 39 is fundamentally undemocratic

Bill 39 is fundamentally undemocratic

We have just made a written submission on Bill 39, the Better Municipal Governance Act, or as it is being labelled here, the Minority Rule Act. Along with many organizations across the province, we protest against the autocratic tendencies of this Progressive Conservative Provincial Government, culminating in Bill 39, which would allow approval of by-laws with just one third of Council votes using so called "strong mayor" powers. Bill 39 is not democratic and must be withdrawn. 

The People's Official Plan written submission on Bill 23

The People's Official Plan written submission on Bill 23

The member organizations of the People's Official Plan (POP) coalition reject Bill 23 on the basis that it will not meaningfully increase affordable housing nor take into account environmental and food security impacts while also contributing to costly expanding sprawl. The proposal will lead to environmental destruction during a climate emergency, when we need to be protecting the green space, watersheds and foodlands we have left. The host of policies proposed in Bill 23 are detrimental to legitimate and pressing concerns, including homelessness and core housing needs, food security, climate risk, affordability, urban trees and parks and public engagement in the planning process.

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Ottawa, ON K1P 5H2

Ecology Ottawa acknowledges that our efforts to protect the environment take place on the traditional unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe people. As an organization and as individuals dedicated to environment and justice, we are deeply grateful to Indigenous peoples for their ongoing stewardship of these lands since time immemorial. We recognize that we are on a journey of Truth and Reconciliation. We are committed to listening, learning and working to decolonize our efforts towards healthy and sustainable environments for all people.