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 […]
OCAF Celebrates the Launch of the Ottawa Community Housing Electric Vehicle Car Sharing Program
Ottawa is on the road to making electric vehicles available to communities that need them most with the launch of an electric vehicle (EV) carsharing program accessible to five Ottawa Community Housing Corporation (OCH) communities in the urban core located between Little Italy and Chinatown and puts electric cars within easy reach to about 500 […]
EV Experience/Expérience VÉ Hits the Road
The Ottawa Climate Action Fund (OCAF), an initiative of the Ottawa Community Foundation (OCF) and the OCF are proud to be founding sponsors of EnviroCentre’s EV Experience/Expérience VÉ, a milestone on the road to decarbonizing transportation and an exciting opportunity for anyone who ever gets behind the wheel of a car. The project officially launched […]
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 […]