Events

Check out KEN's 'Change in the Air' Seminar Series!

Green Gardening with Ed Lawrence
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
7 pm to 9 pm
Glen Cairn United Church
140 Abbeyhill Drive, Kanata
Donations of $2 appreciated
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Ed Lawrence recently retired after thirty years as head gardener for Rideau Hall and six other official residences in the National Capital Region. Ed shares his gardening expertise every Monday on the CBC's noon-time gardening show, "Ontario Today." At our May seminar, he will delve into low-impact gardening and answer your questions. He will also be available to sign copies of his new book, Gardening with Ed.

Other Local Events

Public Information Meeting, City of Ottawa Official Plan

Thursday, May 15, 2008, 7 pm
Colonel By Room, 2nd Floor
City Hall
110 Laurier Avenue West

This meeting will give you more info about preliminary proposals for changes to the City of Ottawa's Official Plan. The proposals, tabled with the Planning and Environment Committe last month, relate primarily to 1) Urban Intensification, 2) Urban Boundary, and 3) Amount of Rural Development. For more info, click here.
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Gardening Without Pesticides Seminars

Tuesday, April 22 to Wednesday, June 4
Different locations across Ottawa

Sign up for one of the City of Ottawa’s free seminars and learn about managing your lawn and garden from trained horticulturalists. Gain practical knowledge about lawn and garden maintenance, landscape alternatives, pest management and much more. For more info, click here or call 613-580-2424 ext. 23657.
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Project Ecosphere - Ottawa Environmental Fair

August 2-3, 10 am to 5 pm
Cumberland Heritage Village Museum
Cumberland (east Ottawa), Ontario

Group ECOSPHERE, in collaboration with the Cumberland Heritage Village Museum of the City of Ottawa, will hold its first multidisciplinary fair dedicated exclusively to ecology and the environment. It will include companies operating in green building, new technologies, organic farming and alternative medicines, as well as speakers and community organizations who will inspire the population to make changes in their everyday lives. For more info, click here.

Campaigns

Citizen's Climate Change and Peak Oil Action Plan for Ottawa

The Canadian Biodiversity Institute is convening a Citizen's Task Force to develop this plan. It will hold four public workshops over the next two years to to raise awareness, develop content for the plan and begin to implement it. To get involved, email ann@schoolgrounds.ca
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Uranium Exploration

Support Ecology Ottawa in its fight to stop uranium exploration in the Ottawa watershed. Read and sign the petition by clicking here. To find out more about this issue and what else you can do, visit Ecology Ottawa.
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Bottled water campaign

Help Polaris Institute petition the City of Ottawa to reduce the use of bottled water by participating in a letter writing campaign. For more information visit Inside the Bottle.
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South Ottawa Wetlands

Support the letter-writing campaign launched by Ottawa-based Greenspace-Alliance to preserve the Leitram wetlands in the south of Ottawa. For more information, visit Greenspace-Alliance.