In these pivotal times, how can we all be doing the work that matters?

How can we put our passion, skills and energy to work for a better world?

What’s stopping us?

Join us this Thursday, October 15, for Green Drinks Ottawa with Peter Blanchard, founder of GoodWork.ca.

Peter walked away from an unsatisfying corporate career, gave up his apartment, packed his belongings into his parents’ basement, and set off to explore other possibilities. He eventually returned to build GoodWork, connecting Canadians with opportunities to work for a better world.

Peter will briefly share his story, then it’s over to you. Around your table, you’ll exchange ideas and possibilities for doing more “good work”—whether through a career change, volunteering, starting something of your own, or finding ways to better contribute where you are.

You don’t need to be looking for a job or have your next step figured out. Come with your questions, experiences and curiosity, and meet others who care about our communities and the planet.

When: Thursday, October 15, 2026, 5:30–7pm
Where: Sala San Marco, 215 Preston St., Ottawa
Details: GoodWork.ca/greendrinks

Green Drinks Ottawa is hosted by CAFES Ottawa.

There is hope.

Even in — especially in — the darkest moment.

Climate gives us everything we need to live.

It gives us everything that we love, cherish, everything we care about.

To ignore it — or pretend we’re helpless and nothing can be done — is nothing less than suicidal.

There is hope, if you take action.

Will you join the team?

Take action on Climate – GoodWork.ca/TakeAction

Climate change jobs, careers & volunteering – GoodWork.ca/Climate

Even when the ‘wolves’ seem to be winning, don’t let it get us down! Real change comes from the heart. We will overcome!

Let’s work for it – GoodWork.ca/Climate. Climate jobs, careers, participation & volunteer positions.

Image source: 1 Million Women, AU

Tearing up bike lanes?

Or tearing up humanity?

Are leaders in your community threatening to tear up bike lanes, supposedly to improve traffic?

This is where it’s leading.

For drivers, pedestrians and cyclists — for all of us alike.

Why is our government actively encouraging us to choose a lifestyle that’s even more addicted to cars? Is it a clever lie, designed to grab votes from those who choose to remain ignorant?

But even if all our bike lanes and sidewalks are torn up, it won’t be a victory for drivers.

Don’t fall for the politicians who want to divide us — pitting drivers against cyclists — for their own profit.

Traffic, inflation, violence and climate disaster will continue to escalate. If we continue to make irresponsible choices like this. But there is a better way!

Think about it. Drivers will face the consequences as much as pedestrians, cyclists and everyone else. It’s destructive, even murderous, for all of us.

Please join and support a cycling, walking or climate action group in your community! Let’s work together for a greener, healthier world…

What can you do?

What can you do to support cycling and active mobility?  

Together we are strong! Join or follow one of these…

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Climate change, American style

This is what climate change looks like, American style. But it’s the same or worse, around the world.

Record breaking storms and heat waves. Millions and millions are struggling. Yet in this in-depth coverage, there is not one mention of climate change. Why not — let’s blame the electricity utility…

WATCH: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6446524 (5 minutes)

If we don’t stop driving, flying, consuming without limit — this is just the beginning.

Rather than the problem, would you like to be part of the solution?

Don’t wait for the neighbours. Work for climate action, as if your life matters! — GoodWork.ca/Climate

What are you up to today?

Are we awake, alive? Do our lives matter? Or maybe even… our kids? Or do cars and corporations matter more? Would you let billions perish as a result of thoughtless driving back and forth, belching climate chaos? Will you act as if your life matters?

Or do you prefer extreme weather, food shortages, housing crisis, war?

Please think about this and rise to the challenge! Do what you can, no less, no more. All our lives depend on it. There is so much you can do — if only you wake up, turn off the Neflix, get off your butt, act as if life matters.

What matters more?

Climate action | Climate jobs

Airpocalypse

It’s like an oven out there.

Finally, I too have turned on the A/C. Doing my bit to escalate the climate crisis, bring on a dire future. But only out of desperation.

How many of us turn on the “air” without giving a thought to the consequences? Or without fully considering the alternatives? Would you do it if you knew it was killing your own kids? Because… it is.

A/C is a con job, it always has been.

It’s a simple fact that so-called air conditioning heats up the air outside much more than it cools it down inside. And in the process, contributing massively to smog, climate crisis, ecological destruction. Putting us all on escalating, downward spiral.

Even snoozing in the shade is happier, healthier and much more sustainable. But wait for it… we’re cutting down the shade.

This is the world we’re building… but it doesn’t have to be this way.

Work for real change!

#climatechange #climatecrisis #climatemergency #flyless #driveless #sustainableliving #depave #degrowth

Cool!?!

Fancy cars aren’t “cool”. They never have been. Shallow egos, destroying themselves and their world. #Wildfires #Tornados #Floods #Heatwaves #Famine. Our addiction to cars and consumerism is nothing if not murderous.

What’s really cool? People who spend their time and energy on life, not consumer stupidity. People who leave the wheels at home and find a better way.

Yes, in our self-destructed world — built with little foresight by the oil and motor companies — I too have a car, out of necessity. But it is a modest car and I use as little as possible. I would not spend one extra dollar on this fundamentally corrupt industry.

What is this paved, smoggy hell that our communities have become? Is this the best we can do? Will we work together to build happy, healthy communities from which we don’t to “hit the highway” and escape?

Yes, electric cars are a notch better, but only a notch. It’s still a highway to hell.

Cars are not cool. They are murder weapons, destroying our communities, our lives, our world. So the next time somebody drives by you in a BMW, Mercedes, whatever …give your head a shake. They are the lowest depths of society, absolutely nothing to aspire to.

But we are creatures of habit, most people haven’t begun to think this through. The bottom line: it is our climate that gives us air, water, food, life. Cars and materialist, consumer culture are destroying all this. Meanwhile, the illusion of a “life of leisure” and the “open road” have tricked us into a fatal situation.

Will you join the forces for change?

#driveless #flyless #depave #sustainableliving #degrowth #carfree #localism

If we are to survive what’s coming, we need to take our feet off the gas. And instead, learn to use the legs and brains we were born with.

No hell worse than cars

I picked up my son from work today, driving my “car”.

Why?

Because the air is so bad that it would be unhealthy to walk or cycle.

Bitter irony. The wildfires — caused by fossil-fool driving, flying, consuming — gave me no choice but to burn more fossil fuels. So I drive, only to cause more wildfires, more climate chaos.

Once in our car, temporarily sealed off from the world, my son says, “it feels like I’m cheating”.

“Everyone is cheating”, I replied. We’ve all been lured into a world where we’ve forgotten how to use our own legs, how to live in our own bodies, our own communities.

Instead we sit on our butts and press the gas pedal.

It’s killing us and our world.

There is a better way, a better life! Are we even looking?

Image: AndySinger.com

You *are* the change

Are conformity, outdated habits and norms … keeping you from doing the right thing with your life?

Is fear keeping you stuck — “working for the man” — in the age of climate crisis?

Is it causing you to contribute needlessly to the destruction of our world? Mother Earth — our air, climate, food & water?

Is “playing it safe” really what you want and need to be doing with your life energy?

Take the leap — work for change! GoodWork.ca/Now

#purpose #meaningfulwork #greenjobs #greencareers #rightlivelihood #sustainableliving #greenliving #careerchange #socialchange #activism #advocacy #survival