Archives: Sustainability

Monday, August 26, 2024

Online Event: Four-Season Beauty & Biodiversity (Sept 7)

Learn how to create a habitat garden that works year-round with Blooming Boulevards! Discover how to extend the color and textural interest in your landscape through fall and winter with beautiful foliage, striking structure, and colorful branches, berries, seed pods that support the wildlife around you while you enjoy the show. Saturday, Sep 7... More

Monday, April 29, 2024

Webinar: Climate Change, Love, and Seniors (April 30)

Group of 78 invites you to this webinar Tired of beating your head against the table when talking about climate change and climate action with the seniors in your life? Join, April 30, 2024 at 1:00 ET for a webinar to learn how to communicate the urgency of our climate crisis and how we can... More

Monday, January 29, 2024

Online Event: Just Transition Guide Fireside Chat with David Suzuki & Melina Laboucan-Massimo (Jan 31)

On Wednesday, Jan. 31, join for a fireside chat between two of Turtle Island’s most prominent environmental activists on climate change and Indigenous leadership. This virtual event follows November’s official launch of the "Just Transition Guide,” a project led by Melina Laboucan-Massimo, in collaboration with Sacred Earth Solar, Indigenous... More

Monday, December 11, 2023

Online Event: Self and Collective Care: A Learning Circle on Holistic Approaches to Sustaining Activism (Dec 20)

Are you an activist who wants to learn from other activists about how they foster relationships and practices of care in their organizing and activism? Are you looking for inspiration or support in implementing new care practices into your grassroots group? Or perhaps your group already does excellent care work and you want to... More

Monday, November 13, 2023

Event: Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library: Seed Giveaway!

The Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library is proud to announce our free seed giveaway schedule. Now is the perfect time to sow native seeds. Join us to learn about native plant gardening and receive free native seeds for winter sowing. No gardening experience required! Dates depending on your location: November 18: 1:00-2:30 at Ray Friel... More

Sunday, October 22, 2023

Ecology Ottawa’s Native Plantings Map

Ecology Ottawa has created this map to identify publicly accessible plantings of native species in Ottawa. If you are involved with a project of this type that is not already included on the map, please complete this form. They are hoping this map highlights efforts to increase biodiversity initiatives across our city—and, because these... More

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Event: Solidarity in Sounds: A Concert for the Anishnabe Moose Committee (August 18) 

Join Climate Justice Ottawa and the Anishnabe Moose Committee (AMC) for a night of music, celebration and solidarity in their effort to protect their moose, culture, and lands on August 18 @ 6pm at Club Saw (67 Nicholas St, Ottawa). Tickets are on sliding scale of $15, $25, $35, and $50. A $50 ticket... More

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Event: Tour of the Flutter and Buzz Pollinator Garden (August 12)

Join the Wild Pollinator Partners for a Flutter and Buzz Pollinator Garden tour on August 12 at @10am. It is a much-loved community hub, attracting pollinators and various audiences – from a partnership with the adjacent elementary school to the wider community. This garden is an act of restorative kindness, a certified Monarch Butterfly... More

Friday, June 30, 2023

Event Announcement: Beehive Collective Ottawa (July 15)

Join the Beehive Collective on July 15th at 3pm in The Children's Garden, Ottawa (321 Main St, Ottawa) for an afternoon of storytelling and arts-based cultural exchange! The workshop focuses on climate and environmental issues while emphasizing inspiring stories of community empowerment and solutions. The Collective’s giant MesoAmerica... More

Thursday, March 17, 2022

Online Event: Sustainable Energy Speaker Series: Dr. Bronwyn Lazowski (March 24)

The Sustainable Energy Speaker Series is presented by the Carleton Sustainable Energy Research Centre. For more information on the series can be found by clicking here.   Unlocking grid modernization for energy systems transformations and net zero goals with Dr. Bronwyn Lazowski Grid modernization is a crucial component of the required... More

Friday, December 17, 2021

Repost: Doing our best to help Canada fight climate change by Lenore Fahrig

Climate Commons member and Chancellor’s Professor of Biology, Lenore Fahrig, recently published an article in the Globe and Mail discussing the feasibility of individual actions, such as home energy transitioning, that can start to address the climate crisis. You can read the article and find out more by clicking here.... More

Friday, February 5, 2021

Online Grad Course this May: Corporate Power, Fossil Capital, Climate Crisis

Corporate power • fossil capital • climate crisis A three week-long course open to social science graduate students from across Canada May 10-28, 2021 • University of Victoria Join us for the Corporate Mapping Project’s third summer institute, offered by the University of Victoria Department of Sociology. Space is limited — please RSVP... More

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