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Wednesday, March 8, 2023
The Cross Canada Campus Tour is a free initiative part of the Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival with support from the Canada Council for the Arts that enables free film screenings for campus groups and classes. Your group or class can select a film, then book a date for your on... More
News broke recently that hundreds and hundreds of trees have been clear cut from Tewin lands. This is unacceptable. Our ecosystem is too valuable. Ecology Ottawa has a petition and letter that you can send to Mayor Sutcliffe and the chairs of the Environment and Climate Change and the Planning and Housing committees. Ecology Ottawa is... More
Thursday, February 23, 2023
In December last year, Earth Scientist Dr. Rose Abramoff, was fired from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Climate Change Science Institute in the USA for unfurling a banner with Dr. Peter Kalmus (a climate scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab) that read “Out of the lab and into the streets” before a plenary talk in the meeting of... More
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
2023 Worldwide Climate Teach-In When? Wednesday, March 29th (or anytime that week!) Join the Carleton Climate Commons, History Rebellion, Scientist Rebellion and many other organizations in the upcoming WORLDWIDE TEACH-IN ON CLIMATE AND JUSTICE on and around March 29, 2023. Last year this event engaged an estimated 50,000 students at more than 300... More
Sunday, February 19, 2023
The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change When: March 2nd, 6:30-8PM (EST) Where: Online Check out this upcoming webinar organized by the Centre on Hate Bias and Extremism at Ontario Tech: We warmly welcome you to join us for a The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far Right Conspiracy... More
Monday, February 13, 2023
Feb. 16: Noons for Now: Open Discussion Our last teach-in of the month is dedicated to an open discussion. We will pick up threads from previous conversations to see where they take us, and we will develop new ideas for concrete actions to engage in individually and as a community. Everyone is welcome, whether... More
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Feb. 9: Using Heat Pumps to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Homes in Ottawa with Bill Nuttle and Holly Bickerton We will hear from two homeowners from Ottawa who have used air source heat pumps to reduce GHG emissions from older, pre-1950s homes. Electricity generated in Ontario is over 90 percent fossil-free. Replacing a... More
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