Ottawa South Eco-Action Network - OSEAN

08/19/2026

🌍 At IMMdesignlab we work for Climate Adaptation: Building Resilient Cities 🏙️

With climate change posing increasing risks to urban areas, it's crucial to prioritize adaptation efforts. Hundreds of millions of urban dwellers are vulnerable to its direct and indirect impacts.

Climate adaptation involves anticipating these effects and taking proactive measures to prevent or minimize damage, while also seizing opportunities that may arise. Research shows that well-planned adaptation saves lives and resources in the long run.
Adaptation strategies are essential at all levels of urban administration: local, regional, national, and EU. Let's work together to foster resilience, promote sustainable development, and achieve SDG11!

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08/13/2026

📅Save the Date and save those clothes or textiles that need mending!! 🪡

OSEAN is *sew* excited to announce a new Monthly mending series taking place the first Monday of every Month!

📣Join us Monday September 7th from 6-8 pm Landmark Retirement Community (140 Darlington Private) - 🚍Bus 90 and 🚲 Bike racks on site

Darn it! You can’t join us in September?
Don’t fret, we will return every month - same mending time, same mending location!

No experience necessary!
Mending mentor volunteers will be on-hand to help you with that lost button, ripped knees or that hole in your sweater you have been hoping to fix!

We will provide the supplies you need or recommend them!

Tea and snacks will be offered

Don’t have anything to mend? ☹️
Or are you mend curious? 👀😏
Come for the social aspect or just to watch, or we can provide a simple project to get you started! !

All ages welcome to come and learn (youth under 16 will need a guardian present)

🙋🙋🏾‍♂️Are you good with a needle and thread? Or a darning egg? Or sewing machine? We would love to have more mending mentors join us (send us message to learn more)

Full list of dates:
Mon Sept 7
Mon Oct 5
Mon Nov 2
Mon Dec 7
Mon Jan 4
Mon Feb 1
Mon Mar 1
Mon Apr 5
Mon May 3
Mon Jun 7
Mon July 5

08/13/2026

We highly recommend coming out to any Green Drinks event! Meet new people, learn new things and maybe leave a little less worried about our future knowing that so many people care about the planet and want to protect it.

👋 Have you RSVPd for Green Drinks this Thursday, August 13 at 5:30 pm?

We have a thrilling evening of Trivia planned with prizes to be won! Come with your friends and enter as a team, or make a team with your tablemates when you arrive.
🌿 The theme is going to be waste reduction and other environmental issues in pop culture. Come for the fun, and take some tips and tricks home with you!
🎟Green Drinks is always FREE for everyone to attend!

RSVP today https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1997026845052?aff=oddtdtcreator
Location: The Prescott | 379 Preston St.
Date & Time: Thursday, August 13 at 5:30pm to 7pm

08/05/2026

OSEAN recognizes the value of urban forests. Its why we are actively trying to protect the McCarthy Nature Corridor from development. Now to convince the National Capital Commission, Yasir Naqvi, David McGuinty and Carney that these meadows, forests and riverlands are valuable green infrastructure that are irreplacable

07/17/2026

🌳🏞️ Ottawa is unique in having significant urban greenspace, which is managed by the National Capital Commission. But that greenspace is under growing pressure as our city densifies and looks for room to build.

In this month's Climate CAFES on CKCU 93.1 FM, Angela Keller-Herzog chats with Mireille Trent, an environmental economist, member of the Ottawa South Eco Action Network, and active with the Hunt Club Community Association, about the NCC’s recent appeal of the new Zoning By-law.

📻🎼 Tune in to 93.1 FM at 8am on Monday, July 13 for another exciting episode of Climate Cafes with Angela on CKCU’s Monday Special Blend!
⏰Every second Monday of the month at 8AM only on CKCU 93.1 FM.

07/17/2026

Now is the time to check your yard for dog-strangling vine and ideally dig it up from it’s roots. But if you are feeling daunted or overwhelmed by the number of plants - cutting off the seed pods to prevent them from releasing seeds is the second best option. Check out this post for proper disposal AND for more info visit our resource page for some invasive species Identification and removal fact sheets: https://www.osean.org/invasive-species-removal

Huge thank you to the many groups and tireless volunteers who are working to remove invasive plants in our community and protect biodiversity

With the recent heat wave, the weather has been favourable for the growth of many plant species, including the invasive Dog Strangling Vine (DSV). DSV has the ability to spread rapidly, crowding out native plants. It is particularly harmful to Monarch butterflies, which often mistake DSV for milkweed and lay their eggs on it. Unfortunately, Monarch caterpillars cannot survive on DSV.

Over the next couple of weeks, if you have a few spare moments, please consider taking a walk through any nearby park, trail, or other green space and bring a bag to collect DSV seed pods. Seed pods are currently turning yellow, making them easier to spot amongst green foliage.

Once the seed pods are collected, please place the sealed bag in full sun for two to three weeks before discarding them with regular household waste. Please do not place these seed pods in the compost as this may allow the seeds to spread.

Thank you for your help in protecting native plants, ecosystems, and wildlife.

Friends of WRENS WAY
Ottawa South Eco-Action Network - OSEAN

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Avec la récente vague de chaleur, les conditions météorologiques ont favorisé la croissance de nombreuses espèces végétales, y compris le dompte-venin, une plante envahissante. le dompte-venin peut se propager rapidement et évincer les plantes indigènes. Elle est particulièrement nuisible aux papillons monarques, qui la confondent souvent avec l’asclépiade et y pondent leurs œufs. Malheureusement, les chenilles du monarque ne peuvent pas survivre sur cette plante.

Au cours des prochaines semaines, si vous avez quelques instants à consacrer à cette initiative, nous vous invitons à faire une promenade dans un parc, un sentier ou tout autre espace vert à proximité et à apporter un sac afin d’y recueillir les gousses de graines du dompte-venin. Les gousses commencent actuellement à jaunir, ce qui les rend plus faciles à repérer parmi le feuillage vert.

Une fois les gousses recueillies, veuillez placer le sac bien fermé en plein soleil pendant deux à trois semaines avant de le jeter avec les ordures ménagères. Veuillez ne pas déposer ces gousses dans le compost, car cela pourrait permettre aux graines de se propager.

Merci de votre aide pour protéger les plantes indigènes, nos écosystèmes et la faune.