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Members of the Peoples Official Plan coalition held a press conference addressing the shortfalls of Ottawa City Council's 2023 Budget. Speakers included Alice Irene Whittaker, Executive Director, Ecology Ottawa, Angela Keller-Herzog, Executive Director, Community Associations for Environmental Sustainability (CAFES), Laura Neidhart, Chair, Just Food, Laura Shantz, Board Member, Ottawa Transit Riders, Paul Johanis, Chair, Greenspace Alliance of of Canada’s Capital and Roland Dorsay, Director-at-Large, Federation of Citizens’ Associations Ottawa (FCA).
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Rewilding Ottawa 2023 Report
Last year was a big one for our Rewilding Ottawa program. It saw the planting of three pollinator gardens with community groups in different Ottawa locations, advocacy for—and ultimately the adoption of—new regulations concerning the stewardship of boulevards, the widespread sharing of information about both of these so that Ottawans across the City could foster biodiversity in their own communities. Read the report!
Budget 2025 Rally: Ecology Ottawa calls for a Credible Response to the Climate Emergency
The morning on which the 2025 budget came to Ottawa City Council for voting, we joined several organizations calling for a budget that serves all Ottawans. You can listen to a portion of our remarks here, or read them in their entirety below.
Education as Intervention: The Climate Fresk comes to Ottawa
You may have heard of the "climate fresk." But what is it, how did it start, and what happens at one? Our Council Watcher Lesley Isaro recently attended a climate fresk in Westboro to find out.