Green Living Ottawa

Nature for Everyone, Everywhere! An Amazing Opportunity for Youth Photo by Nicolai Papove Gregory, NPG Studio, submitted by Jennifer Haughton, CPAWS-OV Guest post by Jennifer Haughton, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) Ottawa Valley Chapter. Thank you…

Check out "Nature for Everyone, Everywhere!," a free program for youth aged 18-30 to gain environmental leadership skills. All youth, particularly newcomer youth, are welcome to apply. Learn more in this guest post from Jennifer Haughton @cpaws-ov.bsky.social: greenlivingottawa.com/2026/03/04/n...

Oak and Woodpecker
Woodpecker on Oak
2026

Statement: $5 Billion in Transit Cuts a Huge Step Backwards - Environmental Defence Statement from Sam Hersh, Clean Transportation Program Manager Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Cutting $5

Last week, the govt finally admitted they cut public $5 billion from the Canada Public Transit Fund.

Without predictable federal funding, cities will be forced to cut service or raise fares outcomes that disproportionately hurt low-income riders.

From me on behalf of @environmentaldefence.ca:

Event poster with photos of people talking near a heat pump and a kid's smiling face in a heat pump cut out. Text reads: HINTONBURG HEAT PUMP & HOT CHOCOLATE TOUR HEAT PUMP Tour a couple Hintonburg homes with Heat Pumps and get your questions answered. We'll finish the tour with hot chocolate, snacks, conversation + outdoor winter play at Hintonburg Park! SATURDAY FEB 21ST 10 am - 12 pm Near Hintonburg Park Locations available closer to date Register: VISITAHEATPUMP.CA FOR OUR KIDS OTTAWA

Heat pumps! Hot chocolate! Hintonburg!

Learn more about heat pumps from regular folks in a low-pressure family-friendly environment. Sign up at visitaheatpump.ca

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New Year, New Ottawa? Ideas and Events May this new calendar year bring you renewed energy for the paths ahead—to move through sometimes overwhelming challenges toward a more sustainable and just world. The concept of “new year&#8…

Help create a more sustainable and just city with @freetransitottawa.bsky.social's New Vision for Public Transit; @ecologyottawa.bsky.social Mapping Care and Climate Equity workshop; @scan-ottawa.bsky.social's Finding Common Ground with @veldoncoburn.bsky.social greenlivingottawa.com/2026/01/17/n...

Does the City of Ottawa's draft 2026 budget really pursue affordability?

#OttCity @en.ottawa.ca describes its draft 2026 Budget as pursuing affordability—usually with reference to keeping property taxes low.

But does this approach really yield #affordability?

Please read our letter with the Peoples Official Plan coalition.

www.ecologyottawa.ca/pop-letter-b...

Funding the City We Want: Ottawa’s Budget 2026 O-Train – D. Deby photo Following weeks of consultations and committee deliberations, the City’s 2026 budget goes to Ottawa City Council on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025 for a final decision. The …

Ottawa's proposed 2026 municipal budget underfunds important social and environmental services (like transit) while allocating more for things that aren't likely to improve residents' well-being. See the latest post, and join the call for a better budget! greenlivingottawa.com/2025/12/09/f...

Lansdowne 2.0 cost stays put at $419M as city reveals builder | CBC News The City of Ottawa has named EBC Inc. as the successful bidder to build Lansdowne 2.0, as the project moves toward a final decision at council with a total cost that has barely budged in two years.

Excellent reporting by ⁦‪Arthur White-Crummy‬⁩ … I am deeply disturbed that #ottcity has not released the wording for the Lansdowne 2.0 RFP. They seemed to have learned nothing from the LRT2 predicament debacle. Where is the transparency?

Penultimate
Autumn on Maple
2025

Late Summer's Smile
Grasses on Kitchi Zibi Mikan
2025

Would love to see the stats and analysis for Ottawa.

This is important.

While billionaires profit from arms deals, Canadians face cuts to essential services. Canada is arming global conflicts and escalating military budgets.
Standing for peace is standing for justice, equity, and the future of our communities.
#DrawTheLine #InvestInCareNotWarfare #FreePalestine

When you think “don’t pave paradise” applies to sidewalks, but doesn’t apply to this; you might have a terminal case of car-brain

Draw the Line Ottawa-Gatineau Poster courtesy of Fridays For Future Ottawa Every day seems to bring intensifying crises, each more unthinkable than the last. Canada is burning, while its political leaders pull out the same old …

Change is in the air! We're drawing a line on September 20. Be a part of Draw the Line in Ottawa-Gatineau, and follow @ottawaclimate.bsky.social for updates! greenlivingottawa.com/2025/09/08/d... #DrawTheLine #OttawaMarch2025 #GatineauMarch #PeoplePeacePlanet

Excellent!

If #OttCity invest in year round cycling infra (and related) instead of the hundreds of millions we spend on roads we’d save money. Worried about your taxes? Start thinking about where it all goes and how we could do better, deliver better, live better.

What climate emergency?!?

Current Conversations: The Rights of Rivers – July 30th, 2025 - Ottawa Riverkeeper | Garde-rivière des Outaouais Join us for this enriching conversation to learn about Indigenous expertise about rivers, their rights, our responsibilities towards them, and their importance.

See details and registration at ottawariverkeeper.ca/theme-event/...

Rivers, Rights and Relations: The Ottawa River / Kichi Sibi Kichi Sibi (Ottawa River) from Kìwekì Point – D. Deby photo What if we treated the natural world around us with respect? As if we (humans) were part of it, contributors to it and interdepende…

This evening, 6-8pm! Learn about the importance of rivers and initiatives to have the inherent rights of rivers recognized in law. Hosted by @ottriverkeeper.bsky.social with speakers Gilbert Whiteduck, Abraham Francis and George Brown. greenlivingottawa.com/2025/07/29/r...

ALT (continued): Background image of trees and river, alongside human figures holding signs; and logos of Anishnabe Moose Studies, Climate Justice Ottawa, ACEP/CAPE Local 502 (CIRNAC-NCR), A7G, Seniors for Climate Action Now!, Research for the Front Lines, The Youth Harbour, and Ecology Ottawa.

ALT: Red and black text reads Defend the Land: Lessons from Indigenous perspectives of colonization and how to fight back with Sakej Ward. Free! July 26, 2025, 2-4pm, Main Library Auditorium, 120 Metcalfe Street, Ottawa. With update on the Anishinabe Moose Committee from Coordinator Waba Mako! ...

Beyond the Bills 2: Sustainable Alternatives Image via Climate Justice Ottawa In the previous post, I wrote about problematic federal and provincial “nation-building” legislation, and alternatives that move towards a just and sustainable futu…

Today! A great opportunity to learn about and support alternatives to unsustainable systems and practices. greenlivingottawa.com/2025/07/25/b...

So looking forward to this!

We hope to see you there!!

It will be an in incredible opportunity for settlers and climate activists to learn from and support the work frontline land defenders have done to protect the land and water. 🌿

We are hosting a FREE event TOMORROW July 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM at the Ottawa Public Library – Main Library Auditorium.

Register here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/defend-the...

Hersh: Free Transit isn’t just possible, it’s popular Mayor Mark Sutcliffe boasted that Canada Day had record-breaking ridership on the LRT Line 1. He forgot to mention OC Transpo was free.

Transit is an equity issue. ottawacitizen.com/opinion/sam-...

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