Category: Environment

Bike to Work Month

From: Mandy Wilson <mandy.wilson@envirocentre.ca>
Sent: Wed, Apr 26, 2017 2:55 pm
Subject: May is Bike to Work month – get your community involved!

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With the support of our core partner: The City of Ottawa, along with other great community organizations; we are working toward getting more people to try commuting by bike!

Last year, there were over 2,500 participants who cycled more than 8 times around the planet!

This year, we’ll be giving away over $10,000 in prizes throughout the month.

We are including our Workplace Handbook and Poster to help you get things rolling:
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Spring Cleanup 2017 – April 29

LIFE’S MESSY.

APRIL 29 WE CLEAN IT UP.

Champlain Park is looking for volunteers for our annual Spring Cleanup. The snow is melting extra fast, and trash accumulated over a long winter has started to appear.

The cleanup, part of the City’s Cleaning the Capital campaign, is a chance for neighbours of all ages – kids, teens, and adults – to get together, say hello, and help spruce up the neighbourhood.

We’ll meet at the fieldhouse on Saturday, April 29 at 10 a.m. Juice, coffee, and cookies will be served. There is a map so that people can choose an area to work on. We’ll wrap up by noon. In case of rain, we’ll meet instead on Sunday, April 30.

The designated cleanup areas are the south side of Premier above the transitway; the boulevard on Northwestern and the path at its north end; and along the fence on Patricia and Pontiac and in the NCC forest between the fence and the parkway. It can also include the area along the river at the foot of Carleton, or any other public spaces you think could use some help.

We recommend wearing pants and long-sleeved shirts, appropriate footwear and gloves. The City will provide garbage bags.

If you have any questions or suggestions, call Andrea Murphy or Ian Reid at 613-715-9504.

Andrea has tweeted a cleanup summary and a rusty treasure photo at https://twitter.com/AndreaMurphy12/status/858409677532606464

Old Home Earth Day Event – April 22

From: Angela Keller-Herzog < akellerherzog@gmail.com>
Date: 19 April 2017 at 17:11
Subject: Invite: Old Home Earth Day Event – Sat Apr 22

Hello Everybody,

A warm invite for you to drop by the Glebe Community Centre for Earth Day. We have put together a pretty fabulous program for people interested in home energy retrofits, energy incentives, new technologies, decarbonizing our homes!

We have speakers, mini-workshops, discussion corners, and tradefair-style info tables. Start is at 10am with a Power-Up light breakfast and panel discussion. Lots of stuff going on till 3pm.
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Walk in the woods with naturalist Owen Clarkin – April 22 – Reminder

For full details, see the original post.

Join naturalist Owen Clarkin for a walk through the Champlain Woods and various streets to learn how to identify trees when there are no leaves present.

When:    22 April –  rain or shine
Time:     10 am – noon
Where:  Champlain Park Fieldhouse
Event organized by: Catherine Shearer

Refreshments at the Fieldhouse following the walk where Owen will continue to answer questions.

Ottawa Park Summit – April 22

Ottawa Park Summit

April 22, 2017, 1 – 5 PM

Join us on Earth Day for this FREE event!

This innovative event will bring together people from across the City of Ottawa that are active in their local parks to generate ideas and build momentum for better parks in our great city. This will include keynote speakers on critical issues, discussions among city park staff and community partners, as well as breakout workshops on specific issues such as community gardens, park naturalization and tree planting, and investing in local parks.

More information (l’information en français aussi) and registration at http://www.ecologyottawa.org/park_summit


17 04 13 park summit poster.pdf

Pontiac Depaving Park Expansion Update

Seen in councillor Jeff Leiper’s Kitchissippi Ward Newsletter #88:

Pontiac Street partial closure update

It has been a bit of a slog to accomplish the street closure for a portion of Pontiac that we’ve been seeking since last fall. There were some outstanding questions about drainage from staff that we believe we’ve now worked through, and we expect to put jersey barriers in place as a first phase of closure relatively soon. In response to a community request, we’re delaying that until the end of the school year in order to minimize disruption to school buses and drop-off. The background to the closure is here. We’ve yet to figure out a timetable for de-paving, but are working on it!

Walk in the woods with naturalist Owen Clarkin – April 22

Winter seems to be going, coming back, going … but eventually the buds on the trees will swell and spring WILL arrive. To enhance your appreciation of our urban forest and as a kick-off activity for Champlain Park’s environment activities, join naturalist Owen Clarkin for a walk through the Champlain Woods and various streets to learn how to identify trees when there are no leaves present.

When:    22 April –  rain or shine
Time:     10 am – noon
Where:  Champlain Park Fieldhouse
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Course on Growing Organic Food, also a Seeds Course

Subject: New organic gardening course – Growing Organic Food
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 10:54:42 -0500
From: julia@cog.ca

Canadian Organic Growers is offering a new course this growing season – Growing Organic Food. If you are interested in learning about where your food comes from, how it was grown, or you just want to learn the how to grow and source your own food – this course is for you! Digging deep into organic gardening and permaculture principles with local gardeners, foragers, and farmers alike, we will mentor you through an entire food growing season so you can gain the essential gardening skills and the confidence to source your own food.
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Environmental Projects Grant Deadline – March 31

From: CEPGP <CEPGP@ottawa.ca>
Sent: Tue, Feb 28, 2017 6:02 pm
Subject: City of Ottawa Community Environmental Projects Grant Program March 31 Deadline / Programme de subventions aux projets communautaires liés à l’environnement de la Ville la date limite est le 31 mars

Deadline for the City’s Community Environmental Projects Grant Program is March 31, 2017

Are you looking for an opportunity to put your environmental ideas into action? The City of Ottawa is now accepting applications for the 2017 Community Environmental Projects Grant Program (CEPGP).
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