Environment Ideas Sought
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Ecology Ottawa
Ecology Ottawa Community Network Brief summary: Ecology Ottawa believes that building grassroots strength is the key to achieving change. With this in mind, we are launching a new campaigning arm called the Community Network and looking for volunteers who want to join us.
The Network will bring together environmental leaders from as many of Ottawa’s 100 neighbourhoods as possible. These Community Organizers will work together on city-wide campaigns but they will advance those campaigns at the neighbourhood level.
This will include things like facilitating a neighbourhood team of Ecology Ottawa volunteers, engaging other local organizations (including community associations), building lists of supporters in their neighbourhood (through things like petition drives), and making sure that City Councillors are hearing from their constituents.
We are looking for people that are interested in joining the Ecology Ottawa Community Network and taking leadership in their neighbourhood. Ecology Ottawa is offering training and support, as well as the opportunity to share experiences and work with other environmental leaders across the city.
If we can imagine coordinated action in communities across the city, then we can begin to imagine transforming Ottawa into the environmental leader that we want it to be. Ecology Ottawa believes that it is time redouble our efforts to develop a capacity to run truly city-wide campaigns—campaigns that are grounded at the community level but are rolled out in neighbourhoods across Ottawa.
There are at least 91 distinct neighbourhoods (or communities) in the city. If we can get local organizers from a majority of these neighbourhoods to come together and agree to all roll-out common environmental campaigns in their respective communities, we’ll be able to create a powerful force for change at City Hall. That’s what the Ecology Ottawa Community Network is all about.
We are proposing an Ecology Ottawa Community Network that is made up of people that want to run city-wide campaigns and are prepared to organize in their own community. If you want to know more, please contact Graham Saul at graham.saul@ecologyottawa.ca or on his cell at 613-558-3368.
Macoun Marsh Environmental Restoration