The Urban Climate Alliance presents "Municipal climate action in Ontario - Working towards sustainable, resilient, and vibrant communities at the local level".
The Urban Climate Alliance is composed of Citizens Environment Alliance of Southwestern Ontario, Ecology Ottawa, Environment Hamilton, and Toronto Environmental Alliance.
The Urban Climate Alliance thanks the Echo Foundation for their support of cross-community collaboration.
Watch the recording here!
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!
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.
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.