The Glebe Community Association (GCA) Environment Committee in partnership with Community Actions for Sustainable Environment (CAFES) learned a lot when we organized a Climate & Your Cash - Glebe event on Sunday, November 30, 2025. We want to share these lessons with other community associations who are interested in helping their residents divest from fossil [...]
As we close out 2025 let us celebrate some of the amazing highlights that we achieved this year! April - we joined EnviroCrew from Old Ottawa South for a 'Big Waste Collection' which provided residents with a one stop drop for a range of materials that were not accepted in the City of Ottawa's recycling [...]
The Glebe Community Association (GCA) strongly supports the motion tabled on February 10, 2021 by Councillors Theresa Kavanagh and Catherine McKenney regarding nuclear waste disposal plans at Chalk River. We urge you to support this motion and urge Council to swiftly adopt and act on it, in the interests of the health and safety of [...]
The GCA Environment Committee, in collaboration with other urban core community association green committees has been an active contributor to the City of Ottawa's consultations on the coming Urban Forest Management Plan. A copy of the September 2016 consultant DRAFT is here. See our response and recommendations to this draft: 201611CoreCAsUrbanForestMgmtPlaninputs_3
In 2015 the City of Ottawa started a consultation regarding our urban forest. The GCA Environment Committee collaborated with neighbouring community associations to produce the following input to the City of Ottawa Forestry Services: 2015 11 24 Core CAs Urban Forest Mgmt Plan inputs_7