Local Profiles

This page tries to identify and profile people and organizations in Ottawa that are trying to make a difference in improving our resilience to energy price shocks, our ability to obtain quality affordable food, and our ability to reduce our carbon footprint. If they can can do it, then why can't you?

Crude Awakening: Preparing Ottawa-Gatineau for Peak Oil
The objectives of this Ottawa-based forum have been to: • bring together diverse and interested residents of Ottawa and Gatineau to address the emerging challenges of peak oil. • provide opportunities for participants to exchange ideas, experiences, knowledge to collectively better understand the future of peak oil in our community. • ignite interest, imagination, resources within community to work now on planning and making choices for declining fossil fuel.

Read the full report of their first community forum.