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CAFES Ottawa @cafesottawa.bsky.social · 5d

On the agenda:
🌳Updates on the September ECCC meeting and Invasive species dialogue
🌳Janet Mason speaking about invasive species in Ottawa
🌳 Forêt Capitale Forest update
🌳Community tree planting on Oct 18th
🌳Updates on the Carleton community engagement project
🌳Tour de Table

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CAFES Ottawa @cafesottawa.bsky.social · 5d

🌳 Join us on October 7 from 12-2 pm for our Trees and Greenspace Caucus! 🌳

Register here ➡ us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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CAFES Ottawa @cafesottawa.bsky.social · 6d

🎻🎹‘Wanting to Start Again’ is a violin-piano concert experience that addresses the complicated and difficult feelings that arise when living in a world being ravaged by climate change. This program arose from a feeling of hopelessness and grief fueled by the fires that happened in Banff and Halifax.

DoSi- Wanting to Start Again Trailer

YouTube video by Windwood Music Festival

www.youtube.com

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CAFES Ottawa @cafesottawa.bsky.social · 6d

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...

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Eugenie Waters @eugeniewaters.bsky.social · 10d

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

Poster promoting a tour of heat pumps in the Overbrook neighbourhood from 9:30am on Sunday Oct 5th.

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Jeff Seidman (he/him) @jeffsseidman.bsky.social · Sep 4

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).

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CAFES Ottawa @cafesottawa.bsky.social · 22d

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

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CAFES Ottawa @cafesottawa.bsky.social · 26d

If you plan to come to #DrawTheLine in Ottawa, we need volunteers on the day of!

Fridays For Future Ottawa @ottawaclimate.bsky.social · 27d

🌍 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/

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Laine Johnson @lainejohnson.bsky.social · 26d

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!

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Ecology Ottawa @ecologyottawa.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

www.cbc.ca

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CAFES Ottawa @cafesottawa.bsky.social · Sep 8

☀️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...

CAFES Ottawa @cafesottawa.bsky.social · Sep 2

Happening tomorrow! #Ottawa

CAFES Ottawa @cafesottawa.bsky.social · Aug 28

🌿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

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

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Fridays For Future Ottawa @ottawaclimate.bsky.social · Aug 27

🚨 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/

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CAFES Ottawa @cafesottawa.bsky.social · Aug 28

🌿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

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

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CAFES Ottawa @cafesottawa.bsky.social · Aug 27

Want to discuss how the City of Ottawa can better address invasive species?

Register for our community dialogue here ➡️ bit.ly/InvasiveSpec....

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!

bit.ly

CAFES Ottawa @cafesottawa.bsky.social · Aug 27

🌳🔎 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 ⬇️

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

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Fridays For Future Ottawa @ottawaclimate.bsky.social · Aug 25

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

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For Our Kids: Ottawa-Gatineau @forourkidsog.bsky.social · Aug 20

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.

CAFES Ottawa @cafesottawa.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

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

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CAFES Ottawa @cafesottawa.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

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

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RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · Aug 17

🔥Canada is Burning🔥
A warming planet is reshaping our lives. Our future is at stake.

Join us for a powerful webinar - John Vaillant, bestselling author of Fire Weather
‪@johnvaillant.bsky.social‬
@s4can.bsky.social
@cafesottawa.bsky.social
Registration
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Kanata North @kanatanorth.bsky.social · Aug 14

As Hydro Ottawa is looking to increase its capacity for energy production in the City, they are looking at two projects in Kanata North for the construction of a solar generation facility.

Learn more at our virtual information session on August 25:

www.kanatanorth.ca/the-kanata-s...

The Kanata Solar I & II Project Community Information Session – Kanata North

As Hydro Ottawa is looking to increase its capacity for energy production in the City, they are looking at two projects in Kanata North for the construction of a solar generation facility. This facili...

www.kanatanorth.ca

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Climate Action Network Canada @canrac.bsky.social · Aug 14

📣 TONIGHT! Join the nearly 3,000 people who have already registered for the #DrawTheLine mass Organizing Call tonight, featuring Juno-nominated musicians and a panel stacked with inspiring activists. ✊

RSVP now so you don’t miss out! shorturl.at/5FMKn

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Horizon Ottawa @horizonottawa.bsky.social · Aug 8

In under 24 hours, 500+ residents emailed their councillor about youth fare hikes!

Speak out and call on the city to reverse this decision by adding your voice today: www.horizonottawa.ca/save_youth_t...

Demand OC Transpo Reverse the Youth Fare Hikes

www.horizonottawa.ca

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CAFES Ottawa @cafesottawa.bsky.social · Aug 8

If you're not able to listen live, find the recording here: cod.ckcufm.com/programs/43/...

CKCU: Monday Special Blend

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CAFES Ottawa @cafesottawa.bsky.social · Aug 8

📻 Did you know that CAFES has a radio show?

This month, Angela will be discussing David Suzuki's bombshell interview with CAFES interns Emma Bainbridge and James Adair.

Tune in this Monday, August 11, at 8 AM on CKCU 93.1 FM!

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