EnviroCentre, in partnership with the City of Ottawa, is bringing Bike to Work Week to Ottawa. You can pledge to cycle to work 1 to 5 days and be eligible for fabulous prizes. EnviroCentre will help you organize or join a bike train, and you can join fellow commuter cyclists at 156 bank Street for giveaways, bike tune ups and the Bruce Timmerman’s Cycling Award on Thursday, June 10th.
Contact elyse.mccann@ottawa.ca for more information.
Updates coming soon!
Police remind cyclists of the rules of the road
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ecoENERGY Update
For the second time since it was elected, the current federal government has suspended its own energy retrofit grants program, giving delivery agents like EnviroCentre 24 hours notice to deal with thousands of new audits already booked.
The good news is that the Province of Ontario is continuing to provide grants of up to $5,000 plus the $150 rebate on the cost of the first audit. People who have already had an audit as well as those who have already booked the first audit, will still be eligible for grants if they upgrade their house and get a second audit before March 2011.
The current federal government announced an additional $80 million in the latest budget to complement the $90 million that has already been invested in cost-effective, energy-efficiency upgrades that have generated good jobs in every community across Canada. The total investment of $170 million pales in comparison to the billions of being spent on outdated, capital-intensive, fossil fuel megaprojects.