Engaging Ottawa renters in retrofits
OCAF is supporting Ottawa ACORN to meaningfully bring Ottawa low- and moderate-income renters into the climate and retrofit conversation. This initiative will educate and empower tenants to take climate action, and engage their landlords on identification of building retrofit opportunities to improve living comfort and energy savings. Retrofitting apartment buildings isn’t just good for the […]
Institutional Investors Dig Into Detail on Deep Energy Retrofits for MURBs
By Tina Nicholson and Nathaniel Sneyd-Dewar Some of Ottawa’s leading institutional investors are taking a closer look at the prospects for deep energy retrofits in the city’s multi-unit residential buildings (MURBs) after joining a six-month workshop series co-hosted by the Ottawa Climate Action Fund (OCAF), a project of the Ottawa Community Foundation, and the Ottawa […]
Future Homes Ottawa Gears Up for More Building Retrofits
OCAF is supporting the Future Homes Ottawa Project, a community collaboration led by EnviroCentre and the Ottawa Energy Collective, to mobilize community engagement and participation in the kind of deep retrofits required to improve homes and transform neighbourhoods into low-emissions, resilient, climate-proofed communities of the future. EnviroCentre has completed the first phase of its Future […]
OCAF’s First Grant: The Ottawa Future Home Project is advancing neighbourhood-scale deep retrofits
The Ottawa Future Home Project is a community collaboration, led by EnviroCentre and the Ottawa Energy Collective, to mobilize community engagement and participation in the kind of deep energy retrofits required to improve our homes and transform our neighbourhoods into the low-emissions, resilient, climate-proofed communities of the future. The project brings together Ottawa’s leading experts […]