Ottawa River Institute

            Over 170 people gathered at the Agricultural Hall in Cobden on Wednesday, Jan 27^th for a free workshop presented by the Ottawa River Institute.  Presenter and wood heat specialist John Gulland, of Killaloe, offered a wealth of valuable information on wood burning during his two hour presentation entitled, Burn it Smart!  High Efficiency, Low Emission Wood Burning.

            The large group of attendees were treated to a dynamic presentation that contained many pointers and data on wood burning appliances, firewood purchasing and storage, wood burning safety, chimney installations, and burning wood more efficiently with lower smoke emissions.

 

 3rd Annual Seedy Sunday in the Ottawa Valley!  Free Admission. 

Come for an hour, stay for the day. Explore the seeds and plants for sale, local food producers, gardening presentations, and an exchange table for swapping seeds, plants and other gardening goods.  Enjoy the "100-Mile Lunch" sold by the Ottawa Valley Food Co-operative, local musicians, and meeting with friends.  All new and experienced gardeners, locavores and the curious will want to attend!

Fellowes High School, 420 Bell St. Pembroke ON 

Sunday March 7, 2010 Time: 10am-3pm

For more information contact Claire Lepine at:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 613-628-1836

NEW!  The Ottawa River Institute's Energy Upgrades Resource List is a list of Renfrew County building contractors and carpenters who perform work in the areas of energy efficient home building and renovations, and home energy upgrades. Also listed is contact information for some Renfrew County Home Energy Auditors.

The Energy Upgrades Resource Lists will be available at all Ottawa River Institute's events over the next few months.

To download your copy click on the attachment below.

The Ottawa River Institute presented eight Home Energy Upgrades workshops across Renfrew County again in October and November of 2009.  These extremely popular and informative free workshops were offered in the communities of Killaloe, Pembroke, Griffith, Eganville, Arnprior, Renfrew, and Beachburg-Lapasse.
  Seventy-five appreciative households received kits of materials to take-home and apply to their homes to increase the home's energy efficiency and help to create a more comfortable home.

Thanks go out to the Ottawa River Power Corporation, Renfrew Hydro and Eganville Generation who helped to financially support the purchasing of the take-home kits, and thanks also to Mike and Peggy Brooks of Brooks Energy Solutions and Dave Johnson of Know Your Home Inspections who provided Blower Door test demonstrations at two of the eight workshops. 

Two newspaper articles reporting on these workshops are posted below.

The Ottawa River Institute and the Ottawa Valley Food Co-operative have collaborated on a newly published guide for Ottawa Valley food lovers!  The Local Food Buying Guide for the Upper Ottawa Valley, is a very thorough guide to finding and buying delicious food products from local food producers and farmers across the Upper Ottawa Valley.

To read more about this guide, or to download a copy, click here.

ORI is proud to call attention to its Art Gallery members' show currently on display at the Purvis Gallery in Pembroke. 

Painters John Almstedt, Bea Biderman, Kathy Haycock, John Macgillivray, Jordan Smith and Kathrin Winkler have paintings there for the month of July.

ORI is proud to have such talented painters associated with us! We are also very grateful indeed for recent donations of works to ORI by John Almstedt, Bea Biderman, Kathy Haycock, Jordan Smith and Kathrin Winkler.  

We hope you'll take a look at ORI's talented Art Gallery members' paintings at Purvis Gallery.  

ORI cooperated with H2Ottawa and the Renfrew Public Library to provide an information session about solar domestic hot water (SDHW) on Monday, May 25th. Click on the News tab at the top of this page to find an article about SDHW and the H2Ottawa SDHW program. 

Please click here to find a report on this very successful event!