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Green Ottawa With an events calendar, a directory, a facebook group and more, this is a great starting point for connecting with green-minded people, places, organizations and opportunities across the region.
Ecology Ottawa promotes citizen participation in decisions that shape Ottawa’s environment and to hold city council accountable for its environmental performance. Lots of resources and links.
Just Food works with rural and urban food producers and eaters, low-income community members and community organizations and partners to increase local/regional access to sustainable, nutritious food. Produces a local food guide, runs the Community Garden Network, promotes community supported agriculture and local farmers, and more.
Tucker House is a charitable retreat and environmental learning centre that promotes sustainable living through a wide variety of programs. Their 30-acre facility is located in Rockland, just east of Ottawa.
The Living Lightly Project is an open initiative that encourages participants to share their vision of a better way of living with each other and with the world at large.
The Otesha Project Otesha means means “reason to dream” in Swahili. This Ottawa-based organization was created to mobilize youth to create local and global change through their daily consumer choices. Their education programs and bicycle tours use theatre, multi-media, and storytelling to engage a wide range of audiences.
Seventh Generation Community Projects promotes integrated sustainable living practices in the greater Ottawa area by hosting events,creating resources, networking, and supporting green businesses. If you really want to make a significant reduction in your household energy consumption, check out Scott McKenzie’s article Powering Down—The 80% Solution.
Canadian Organic Growers Ottawa is, luckily for us, a very active chapter of COG; and its Growing Up Organic program (which has had links to our Children’s Garden) is doing great work introducing kids to food growing, and bringing organically grown food into schools, day care centres and other institutions.
The Ottawa Riverkeeper is a citizen-based action group that brings people together to protect and promote the ecological health and diversity of the Ottawa River and its tributaries. It is a member of the very successful Waterkeeper Alliance, an international grass roots advocacy organization founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Transition Ottawa is a new initiative to connect and support community-based initiatives that contribute to a more resilient, more dynamic and less oil dependent city. SLOE has become a member group of the organization.
The “Midtown” Footbridge movement is gaining strength; it now has its own Facebook page!
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability is an international association of local governments and national and regional local government organizations that have made a commitment to sustainable development. More than 815 cities, towns, counties, and their associations worldwide comprise ICLEI’s growing membership. ICLEI works with these and hundreds of other local governments through international performance-based, results-oriented campaigns and programs.
Since 1978, the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) has worked to show urban communities how to develop more sustainably.
WorldChanging.com works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty of people are working on tools for change, but the fields in which they work remain unconnected. That the motive, means and opportunity for profound positive change are already present. That another world is not just possible, it’s here. We only need to put the pieces together.