CAFES Ottawa
@cafesottawa.bsky.social
Community Action for Environmental Sustainability (CAFES) is a network of community associations, other organizations and citizens working to promote environmental sustainability in our city. https://linktr.ee/cafesottawa
Giving Tuesday is coming! 🌱
Next week, we’ll be launching our year-end campaign — and thanks to several generous supporters, every donation made between now and December 31 will be matched 1:1, up to $7,500.
Thank you for being part of Ottawa’s community climate movement. 💚
Next week, we’ll be launching our year-end campaign — and thanks to several generous supporters, every donation made between now and December 31 will be matched 1:1, up to $7,500.
Thank you for being part of Ottawa’s community climate movement. 💚
November 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Giving Tuesday is coming! 🌱
Next week, we’ll be launching our year-end campaign — and thanks to several generous supporters, every donation made between now and December 31 will be matched 1:1, up to $7,500.
Thank you for being part of Ottawa’s community climate movement. 💚
Next week, we’ll be launching our year-end campaign — and thanks to several generous supporters, every donation made between now and December 31 will be matched 1:1, up to $7,500.
Thank you for being part of Ottawa’s community climate movement. 💚
Amazing opportunity for youth wanting to make their voices heard in local climate action!
Join youth from across Ottawa on November 29th, 2025 for a day of climate leadership, learning, and action. 🌿💚
Here’s the link to RSVP and be part of the change. www.eventbrite.ca/e/ecology-ot....
Here’s the link to RSVP and be part of the change. www.eventbrite.ca/e/ecology-ot....
November 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Amazing opportunity for youth wanting to make their voices heard in local climate action!
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Calling on Ottawa: protect your wetlands!
They keep our communities safe from floods, filter our water, and shelter countless species. Let decision-makers know their protection matters now more than ever. Read our letter below.
They keep our communities safe from floods, filter our water, and shelter countless species. Let decision-makers know their protection matters now more than ever. Read our letter below.
This open letter was signed by CAFES, @ontarionature.bsky.social, @ecologyottawa.bsky.social, Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club, and Friends of Stittsville Wetlands. It was submitted to Ottawa councillors and staff on November 14.
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ON Nature magazine - To City of Ottawa re Changes to Local Provincially Significant Wetlands - Page 1
Tara Redpath Senior Planner (Acting) 110 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1 November 14, 2025 Dear Tara Redpath, Subject: Take Action to Protect Ottawa’s
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November 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Calling on Ottawa: protect your wetlands!
They keep our communities safe from floods, filter our water, and shelter countless species. Let decision-makers know their protection matters now more than ever. Read our letter below.
They keep our communities safe from floods, filter our water, and shelter countless species. Let decision-makers know their protection matters now more than ever. Read our letter below.
🚨 Ottawa's proposed official plan and zoning bylaw amendments would reduce municipal protections for 94.3 ha of wetlands in Goulbourn and Richmond Fen.
Read our open letter urging the City to strengthen municipal protections for our wetlands ⬇️
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Read our open letter urging the City to strengthen municipal protections for our wetlands ⬇️
catalog.ontarionature.org/to-city-of-o...
November 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
🚨 Ottawa's proposed official plan and zoning bylaw amendments would reduce municipal protections for 94.3 ha of wetlands in Goulbourn and Richmond Fen.
Read our open letter urging the City to strengthen municipal protections for our wetlands ⬇️
catalog.ontarionature.org/to-city-of-o...
Read our open letter urging the City to strengthen municipal protections for our wetlands ⬇️
catalog.ontarionature.org/to-city-of-o...
🧵Meet the speakers for our first Climate & Your Cash event on November 30th!
Buy your tickets for the Glebe and Kanata editions here ➡️ bit.ly/ClimateCash
Buy your tickets for the Glebe and Kanata editions here ➡️ bit.ly/ClimateCash
November 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
🧵Meet the speakers for our first Climate & Your Cash event on November 30th!
Buy your tickets for the Glebe and Kanata editions here ➡️ bit.ly/ClimateCash
Buy your tickets for the Glebe and Kanata editions here ➡️ bit.ly/ClimateCash
🌎💵 Climate & Your Cash: Kanata edition!
🗓Friday, December 12
🕓4-6 PM
📍Kanata North Business Association (350 Legget Drive)
Buy tickets today ➡ bit.ly/ClimateCash
🗓Friday, December 12
🕓4-6 PM
📍Kanata North Business Association (350 Legget Drive)
Buy tickets today ➡ bit.ly/ClimateCash
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🌎💵 Climate & Your Cash: Kanata edition!
🗓Friday, December 12
🕓4-6 PM
📍Kanata North Business Association (350 Legget Drive)
Buy tickets today ➡ bit.ly/ClimateCash
🗓Friday, December 12
🕓4-6 PM
📍Kanata North Business Association (350 Legget Drive)
Buy tickets today ➡ bit.ly/ClimateCash
🌎🎬 Join our Executive Director Angela tomorrow for a film screening of the movie "Incandescence" and discussion about the challenges and opportunities of #cop30!
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The Importance of COP30 – Challenges and Opportunities Day 3
Join us to explore COP30’s challenges and opportunities!
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November 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
🌎🎬 Join our Executive Director Angela tomorrow for a film screening of the movie "Incandescence" and discussion about the challenges and opportunities of #cop30!
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-import...?
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🌎💵 We are hosting another event series!
Climate & Your Cash is your opportunity to discover sustainably focused individuals and organizations creating real change in the financial, investment and insurance worlds!
Get your tickets today ➡️ bit.ly/Climate_and_...
Climate & Your Cash is your opportunity to discover sustainably focused individuals and organizations creating real change in the financial, investment and insurance worlds!
Get your tickets today ➡️ bit.ly/Climate_and_...
October 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
🌎💵 We are hosting another event series!
Climate & Your Cash is your opportunity to discover sustainably focused individuals and organizations creating real change in the financial, investment and insurance worlds!
Get your tickets today ➡️ bit.ly/Climate_and_...
Climate & Your Cash is your opportunity to discover sustainably focused individuals and organizations creating real change in the financial, investment and insurance worlds!
Get your tickets today ➡️ bit.ly/Climate_and_...
October 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🌳 Join us on October 7 from 12-2 pm for our Trees and Greenspace Caucus! 🌳
Register here ➡ us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register here ➡ us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🌳 Join us on October 7 from 12-2 pm for our Trees and Greenspace Caucus! 🌳
Register here ➡ us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register here ➡ us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
CAFES is hosting DoSi for the Ottawa leg of their 'Wanting to Start Again' tour, which combines classical music with space to reflect on our feelings about the climate crisis.
Buy your tickets for the Glebe, Manotick, and Carp shows here ➡ bit.ly/ClimateConce...
Buy your tickets for the Glebe, Manotick, and Carp shows here ➡ bit.ly/ClimateConce...
October 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
CAFES is hosting DoSi for the Ottawa leg of their 'Wanting to Start Again' tour, which combines classical music with space to reflect on our feelings about the climate crisis.
Buy your tickets for the Glebe, Manotick, and Carp shows here ➡ bit.ly/ClimateConce...
Buy your tickets for the Glebe, Manotick, and Carp shows here ➡ bit.ly/ClimateConce...
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Join a tour of Overbrook homes to speak to residents about their heat pumps and get your questions answered!
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/tour-of-he...
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@forourkidsog.bsky.social
#Ott
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@forourkidsog.bsky.social
#Ott
September 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Join a tour of Overbrook homes to speak to residents about their heat pumps and get your questions answered!
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/tour-of-he...
@ecologyottawa.bsky.social @cafesottawa.bsky.social @envirocentre.bsky.social @electrify613.bsky.social
@forourkidsog.bsky.social
#Ott
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@ecologyottawa.bsky.social @cafesottawa.bsky.social @envirocentre.bsky.social @electrify613.bsky.social
@forourkidsog.bsky.social
#Ott
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1/x 🧵 🔌💡 #Greensky. Hey climate peeps! Here’s a local victory to celebrate, and some lessons from it. Last night, the Town of Poughkeepsie, NY, voted to overturn its 18-month moratorium (6 months, renewed twice) on grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS).
September 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
1/x 🧵 🔌💡 #Greensky. Hey climate peeps! Here’s a local victory to celebrate, and some lessons from it. Last night, the Town of Poughkeepsie, NY, voted to overturn its 18-month moratorium (6 months, renewed twice) on grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS).
CAFES is delegating on the following issues:
🌳Invasive Plants (based on community dialogue)
🌳Blue Box Transition to IPR (highlighting lack of recycling in schools)
🌳Tree Planting Strategy
🌳GHG Inventories
🌳Climate Change Master Plan Progress and Audit
🌳LT2 Procurement Process for Kanata Solar
🌳Invasive Plants (based on community dialogue)
🌳Blue Box Transition to IPR (highlighting lack of recycling in schools)
🌳Tree Planting Strategy
🌳GHG Inventories
🌳Climate Change Master Plan Progress and Audit
🌳LT2 Procurement Process for Kanata Solar
September 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
CAFES is delegating on the following issues:
🌳Invasive Plants (based on community dialogue)
🌳Blue Box Transition to IPR (highlighting lack of recycling in schools)
🌳Tree Planting Strategy
🌳GHG Inventories
🌳Climate Change Master Plan Progress and Audit
🌳LT2 Procurement Process for Kanata Solar
🌳Invasive Plants (based on community dialogue)
🌳Blue Box Transition to IPR (highlighting lack of recycling in schools)
🌳Tree Planting Strategy
🌳GHG Inventories
🌳Climate Change Master Plan Progress and Audit
🌳LT2 Procurement Process for Kanata Solar
If you plan to come to #DrawTheLine in Ottawa, we need volunteers on the day of!
🌍 We need you! 🌍
👉 Volunteer the day of the Draw The Line March on Sept 20:
🎤 Sound & Stage
🛡️ Marshals
🪑 Chairs Wagons
🧹 Clean-up
🔥 Chant Team
🎨 Banners
📝 Petition Collectors
On Sept 20, let’s draw the line — for People, Peace, and the Planet. ✊💚
www.fridaysforfutureottawa.org/get-involved/
👉 Volunteer the day of the Draw The Line March on Sept 20:
🎤 Sound & Stage
🛡️ Marshals
🪑 Chairs Wagons
🧹 Clean-up
🔥 Chant Team
🎨 Banners
📝 Petition Collectors
On Sept 20, let’s draw the line — for People, Peace, and the Planet. ✊💚
www.fridaysforfutureottawa.org/get-involved/
September 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
If you plan to come to #DrawTheLine in Ottawa, we need volunteers on the day of!
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Ecology Ottawa is having a Tree Giveaway this weekend!
Pick up a tree September 13th from 9-12 at the Nepean Horticulture Society Annual Fall Plant Sale, located at Cityview United Church!
Pick up a tree September 13th from 9-12 at the Nepean Horticulture Society Annual Fall Plant Sale, located at Cityview United Church!
September 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Ecology Ottawa is having a Tree Giveaway this weekend!
Pick up a tree September 13th from 9-12 at the Nepean Horticulture Society Annual Fall Plant Sale, located at Cityview United Church!
Pick up a tree September 13th from 9-12 at the Nepean Horticulture Society Annual Fall Plant Sale, located at Cityview United Church!
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Our Executive Director William van Geest spoke with Alan Neal on CBC's All in a Day about @en.ottawa.ca's recently released GHG Inventory and Tree Canopy Mapping.
In brief: we're not meeting the urgency of the climate crisis.
Have a listen: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #Climate #OttCity #Ottawa
In brief: we're not meeting the urgency of the climate crisis.
Have a listen: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #Climate #OttCity #Ottawa
© CBC/Radio-Canada 2025. All rights reserved.
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September 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Our Executive Director William van Geest spoke with Alan Neal on CBC's All in a Day about @en.ottawa.ca's recently released GHG Inventory and Tree Canopy Mapping.
In brief: we're not meeting the urgency of the climate crisis.
Have a listen: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #Climate #OttCity #Ottawa
In brief: we're not meeting the urgency of the climate crisis.
Have a listen: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #Climate #OttCity #Ottawa
☀️Register for the next meeting of the CAFES Climate Caucus ☀️
When: September 9, 12-2 pm via Zoom
Prepare for the upcoming Environment and Climate Change Committee meeting with the CAFES network!
Sign up here ➡️ us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
When: September 9, 12-2 pm via Zoom
Prepare for the upcoming Environment and Climate Change Committee meeting with the CAFES network!
Sign up here ➡️ us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
September 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
☀️Register for the next meeting of the CAFES Climate Caucus ☀️
When: September 9, 12-2 pm via Zoom
Prepare for the upcoming Environment and Climate Change Committee meeting with the CAFES network!
Sign up here ➡️ us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
When: September 9, 12-2 pm via Zoom
Prepare for the upcoming Environment and Climate Change Committee meeting with the CAFES network!
Sign up here ➡️ us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Happening tomorrow! #Ottawa
🌿Join CAFES on September 3 for a community dialogue on invasive species management in Ottawa!
Bring your ideas for how the City of Ottawa can expand programming, removal, replacement, mapping, education and community stewardship opportunities on invasive species.
📍 Jim Durrell Recreation Centre
Bring your ideas for how the City of Ottawa can expand programming, removal, replacement, mapping, education and community stewardship opportunities on invasive species.
📍 Jim Durrell Recreation Centre
Ottawa Invasive Species Community Dialogue Event - Sept 3rd
Join us at the Ottawa Invasive Species Community Dialogue Event for a day of learning, sharing, and taking action together!
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September 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Happening tomorrow! #Ottawa
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🚨 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! 🚨
On Saturday, September 20, 2025, we’re Drawing the Line — For People. For Peace. For the Planet. 🌍✊
The 2025 Ottawa–Gatineau DRAW THE LINE March is going to be big — and we need you to help make it happen! Sign Up here:
www.fridaysforfutureottawa.org/get-involved/
On Saturday, September 20, 2025, we’re Drawing the Line — For People. For Peace. For the Planet. 🌍✊
The 2025 Ottawa–Gatineau DRAW THE LINE March is going to be big — and we need you to help make it happen! Sign Up here:
www.fridaysforfutureottawa.org/get-involved/
August 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
🚨 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! 🚨
On Saturday, September 20, 2025, we’re Drawing the Line — For People. For Peace. For the Planet. 🌍✊
The 2025 Ottawa–Gatineau DRAW THE LINE March is going to be big — and we need you to help make it happen! Sign Up here:
www.fridaysforfutureottawa.org/get-involved/
On Saturday, September 20, 2025, we’re Drawing the Line — For People. For Peace. For the Planet. 🌍✊
The 2025 Ottawa–Gatineau DRAW THE LINE March is going to be big — and we need you to help make it happen! Sign Up here:
www.fridaysforfutureottawa.org/get-involved/
🌿Join CAFES on September 3 for a community dialogue on invasive species management in Ottawa!
Bring your ideas for how the City of Ottawa can expand programming, removal, replacement, mapping, education and community stewardship opportunities on invasive species.
📍 Jim Durrell Recreation Centre
Bring your ideas for how the City of Ottawa can expand programming, removal, replacement, mapping, education and community stewardship opportunities on invasive species.
📍 Jim Durrell Recreation Centre
Ottawa Invasive Species Community Dialogue Event - Sept 3rd
Join us at the Ottawa Invasive Species Community Dialogue Event for a day of learning, sharing, and taking action together!
www.eventbrite.ca
August 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🌿Join CAFES on September 3 for a community dialogue on invasive species management in Ottawa!
Bring your ideas for how the City of Ottawa can expand programming, removal, replacement, mapping, education and community stewardship opportunities on invasive species.
📍 Jim Durrell Recreation Centre
Bring your ideas for how the City of Ottawa can expand programming, removal, replacement, mapping, education and community stewardship opportunities on invasive species.
📍 Jim Durrell Recreation Centre
🌳🔎 Did you know that August is tree check month?
You can promote tree health by checking your local trees for invasive species. This is the time of the year when damage is most obvious, even to the untrained eye.
Learn how to check your trees in the guide below ⬇️
You can promote tree health by checking your local trees for invasive species. This is the time of the year when damage is most obvious, even to the untrained eye.
Learn how to check your trees in the guide below ⬇️
August is Tree Check Month! | Invasives Canada
This August, check your trees for signs of invasive species like these emerald ash borer larvae galleries. Image: @iNaturalist, ©naturalistwiz
Protecting Canada's Tree Health
Trees support Canad...
www.invasivescanada.ca
August 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
🌳🔎 Did you know that August is tree check month?
You can promote tree health by checking your local trees for invasive species. This is the time of the year when damage is most obvious, even to the untrained eye.
Learn how to check your trees in the guide below ⬇️
You can promote tree health by checking your local trees for invasive species. This is the time of the year when damage is most obvious, even to the untrained eye.
Learn how to check your trees in the guide below ⬇️
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Communities are burning, flooding, and being displaced while fossil fuel corporations rake in record profits.
We demand an end to fossil fuel subsidies, just transition to renewable energy, Investment in youth climate programs & global climate justice
#DrawTheLine
We demand an end to fossil fuel subsidies, just transition to renewable energy, Investment in youth climate programs & global climate justice
#DrawTheLine
August 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Communities are burning, flooding, and being displaced while fossil fuel corporations rake in record profits.
We demand an end to fossil fuel subsidies, just transition to renewable energy, Investment in youth climate programs & global climate justice
#DrawTheLine
We demand an end to fossil fuel subsidies, just transition to renewable energy, Investment in youth climate programs & global climate justice
#DrawTheLine
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This is a great idea! We all have items that we no longer use - or need for something bigger or smaller. Especially those of us with quickly growing kids 😜.
Bring your items and come home with something secondhand.
Bring your items and come home with something secondhand.
On September 13, join us for a free "Swap & Drop" event to swap your gently used fall and winter items for something new-to-you!
Drop your items off from 9-11 am and shop from 10 am to 2 pm! See the link below for the list of items we accept!
📍Jim Durrell Recreation Centre #ottawa
Drop your items off from 9-11 am and shop from 10 am to 2 pm! See the link below for the list of items we accept!
📍Jim Durrell Recreation Centre #ottawa
Free Swap & Drop: Fall Pop Up
Join Ottawa South Eco-Action Network (OSEAN), CAFES, and Eco West Enders for a free Swap event on Saturday, September 13!
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August 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This is a great idea! We all have items that we no longer use - or need for something bigger or smaller. Especially those of us with quickly growing kids 😜.
Bring your items and come home with something secondhand.
Bring your items and come home with something secondhand.
On September 13, join us for a free "Swap & Drop" event to swap your gently used fall and winter items for something new-to-you!
Drop your items off from 9-11 am and shop from 10 am to 2 pm! See the link below for the list of items we accept!
📍Jim Durrell Recreation Centre #ottawa
Drop your items off from 9-11 am and shop from 10 am to 2 pm! See the link below for the list of items we accept!
📍Jim Durrell Recreation Centre #ottawa
Free Swap & Drop: Fall Pop Up
Join Ottawa South Eco-Action Network (OSEAN), CAFES, and Eco West Enders for a free Swap event on Saturday, September 13!
www.eventbrite.ca
August 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
On September 13, join us for a free "Swap & Drop" event to swap your gently used fall and winter items for something new-to-you!
Drop your items off from 9-11 am and shop from 10 am to 2 pm! See the link below for the list of items we accept!
📍Jim Durrell Recreation Centre #ottawa
Drop your items off from 9-11 am and shop from 10 am to 2 pm! See the link below for the list of items we accept!
📍Jim Durrell Recreation Centre #ottawa