The Fourth Annual Ottawa Environment Fair 2025

November 20, 2025

The Fourth Annual Ottawa Environment Fair 2025

Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

— Bahá’u’lláh

Hosted by the Ottawa Environment Forum (formerly the Ottawa Cluster Environment Group, the Fourth Annual Ottawa Environment Fair occurred on the cool, crisp day of October 25, 2025 at the Ottawa Bahá'í Centre at 211 MacArthur Avenue. While overall attendance was modest this year at around 50 people, meaningful conversations were abundant and rich with opportunities to share common spiritual values in the context of an effective approach to addressing the overarching challenge to humanity manifested in the climate crisis.

This year's Fair enhanced and well reflected the ongoing development of intimacy between the Bahá'í community and that of diverse like-hearted organizations and individual leaders in the larger environmental advocacy community.

This event remains a core offering of our group as we transition towards encouraging the application of spiritual values in addressing the climate crisis in multiple areas and neighborhoods around the vast urban, suburban, and rural space that constitutes the city of Ottawa.

Those interested in learning more or in establishing a spiritually inspired, multifaith environment group in their own community are invited to contact us at email: info@OttawaEnvironment.ca or visit www.OttawaEnvironment.ca

The following is a list of participating organizations.

Community Action for Environmental Sustainability (CAFES): Formerly known as Community Associations for Environmental Sustainability, it has been working since 2010 to help community associations in Ottawa share ideas and achieve common environmental goals by uniting our voices.

Rotary Club Ottawa South: It takes action to create lasting change in the community and the world through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders. This is achieved by providing service to others, promoting integrity, and advancing world understanding, goodwill, and peace, with a local focus on helping children, seniors, and the disadvantaged in the Ottawa South area.

VegOttawa Association: It is a volunteer-run nonprofit organization committed to raising awareness about the benefits of a plant-based and vegan lifestyle such as environmental impact, individual and public health.

Ecology Ottawa: Its mission is to engage Ottawa residents in a growing environmental movement and galvanize people power to effect systemic change that ensures the wellbeing of both people and nature in the city.

Plant Based Treaty: Its treaty urges individuals, groups, businesses and cities to endorse this call to action and put pressure on national governments to negotiate an international Plant Based Treaty as a companion to the UNFCCC Paris Agreement. The treaty would put food systems at the heart of combating the climate crisis, aiming to halt the widespread degradation of critical ecosystems caused by animal agriculture, to promote a shift to more healthy, sustainable plant-based diets and to actively reverse damage done to planetary functions, ecosystem services and biodiversity.

Gentle Ways for Our Planet: It inspires individuals to make a positive environmental impact and leave a gentler footprint on the planet, with our useful tools, concrete initiatives, and trustworthy information about climate action.

Greening Sacred Spaces: It supports faith communities in being environmental stewards within their local communities, connecting them with opportunities and resources.