Ottawa Prioritizing Building Community Resilience Strategy to Combat Climate Change
Building community resilience is one of the top focused areas in the Ottawa 2024 priorities of emergency preparedness as the City of Ottawa is developing a new emergency management strategy and public alerting system to enhance emergency response and adapt to the new climate-changing reality. Advancing ways to increase communication and information sharing, and working with community groups and associations…
The 25th Hour: Pandemic Slowdowns Helped Dominican Beach Cleaners
The slowdown in tourism caused by COVID-19 has given beach cleaners in the Dominican Republic a chance to catch up.
The 25th Hour: Permafrost and the Dempster and Inuvik Tuktoyaktuk Highways
Carleton University PhD student Emma Stockton is completing her thesis on the thawing permafrost’s effect on ground conditions along the Dempster and Inuvik Tuktoyaktuk Highways in the Northwest Territories.
The 25th Hour: Winter 2020 Episode 2
This episode of The 25th Hour explores what people in Ottawa are doing to combat climate change.
The 25th Hour: The Business of Sustainable Energy
RoCo Industries are passionate about proving you can live an eco-friendly lifestyle without even leaving your home.
The 25th Hour: Making Green Garments Possible
Jonathan Rausseo and Taylor Pugh are trying to combat fast fashion in new and unique ways as part of the sustainable fashion movement.
Ottawa’s tree canopy must be larger to achieve real benefit, say environmentalists
Although 30 per cent tree canopy cover is the ideal amount for Canadian cities, environmentalists say more is needed to have substantial change.