Ontario Headwaters Institute

09/25/2026

09/24/2026

An update to the Planetary Boundaries report notes that seven of its nine boundaries have now been transgressed, per the Stockholm Resilience Centre.

Learn more on their website: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html.

09/22/2026

Our Watershed Guardian Awards for Simcoe and Grey Counties are tomorrow at 7pm! If you would like to attend and haven't yet RSVP'd, you can do so at this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezVeKeWLd0EQiQZfsTqEyLYUqrUR_Na2qKcHZ192Cn7TmbTw/viewform

If you can't attend in person but would still like to watch, you can tune in to SCGC's livestream of the Awards, which will go live tomorrow at 7pm.

SCGC and the Ontario Headwaters Institute invite you to an evening of camaraderie, celebration and connection. The Ontario Headwaters Institute will be presenting their Watershed Guardian Awards. These awards acknowledge and celebrate people and organizations making extraordinary efforts to protect....

09/15/2026

OHI announces More Watershed Guardian Awards, at https://ontarioheadwaters.ca/guardian-awards-update/.

To attend next week's awards, use the QR code on the poster!

09/08/2026

The Ontario Watershed Guardian Network has released a list of six Watersheds at Risk. See the full press release and more on our website, or at linktr.ee/ohi.

09/01/2026

OHI launches the Ontario Watershed Guardian Network, whose mission is to advocate for the health of Ontario’s watersheds, including ground-water and abundant, clean drinking water, with six leaders of respected sister organizations agreeing to be on the steering committee.

Full details including the names of the six steering committee members, whom we thank, and how to join, can be found at https://ontarioheadwaters.ca/ontario-watershed-guardian-network/.

08/21/2026

See the full poster athttps://ontarioheadwaters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Vote-for-Healthy-Watersheds-and-Abundant-Clean-Drinking-Water.pdf

It can also be found on our Linktree at linktr.ee/ohi

08/10/2026

We thank all the signatories and have sent in our final submission - directly to the Canadian and Ontario ministers responsible for the environment:

Dear Ministers Dabrusin and McCarthy,

We take the liberty of writing directly to you because the issues of concern to us, and the more than 150 signatories in our email campaign on the Canada-Ontario Agreement on Great Lakes Water Quality and Ecosystem Health (COA), require both policy leadership and appropriate funding from the highest level.

That leadership cannot come from your staff, whom we copy, for whom we have great admiration but believe are constrained by a lack of both government vision and adequate resources.

See the full submission athttps://ontarioheadwaters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/OHI-to-Ministers-on-the-Renewal-of-COA-Aug-8.pdf

08/05/2026

Thank you for helping us reach 150 signatures on our petition to protect Great Lakes ecosystem health! Our petition will be closing on Friday at 5pm, so if you haven't already, you can add your voice at https://win.newmode.net/ontarioheadwatersinstitute/supportgreatlakesecosystemhealth

Links to our active petitions, newsletter, and more can be found at linktr.ee/ohi