Get involved with OBEC
Join volunteers, partners, and project champions, shaping a more sustainable Ottawa.
Ways to participate
Volunteer with OBEC
Tell us how you’d like to help we’ll match you with opportunities across Ottawa (and the BEC network).
Volunteer sign-up
Share a few details and how you’d like to help. We’ll be in touch by email.
Join OBEC
Support community-led sustainability. Pick the level that fits you.
Supporter (Free)
Stay connected and show your support. Receive updates, invitations to events, and access to our project library.
A simple way to stay close to the work.
Member
Become an active part of the EcoCity Ottawa community. Access exclusive updates, events, and opportunities to shape our work.
Organizational Partner
For businesses, schools, and community organizations. Collaborate on projects, share resources, and amplify your sustainability impact.
Host a Public Action Lab (PAL)
Want to bring people together around a sustainability challenge in your community? We'll help you design and run it.
Gather
Bring together your community group, school, or neighbourhood: anyone with a shared interest or challenge.
Engage
We facilitate conversations, surface ideas, and help the group co-design a project that's actually doable.
Act
Leave with a clear plan, community buy-in, and the tools to make it happen.
Start a Community Sustainability Plan (CSP)
A CSP helps your neighbourhood, school, or organization build a locally grounded plan for sustainability. It creates space for community members to brainstorm ideas, set priorities, and implement change, building a lasting culture of sustainability.
Locally grounded
Built from the needs your community knows best
Practical and flexible
Adaptable to any scale or sector
Community-led
Your plan, your priorities, your action
Partner with OBEC
Schools, hospitals, businesses, associations, and community organizations are all welcome. We work with partners to co-create projects, share resources, and build cross-sector sustainability action across Ottawa.
Access to our tools, facilitation, and project library
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Joint project development with your organization
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Answers to common questions about volunteering, Public Action Labs, and partnering with us.
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