Community efficiency financing
Energy
Successful solar hot water pilot leads to major program expansion
Halifax Regional Municipality, NS, offered direct financing to homeowners to install solar-powered water heating systems, lowering energy bills, water consumption and GHGs.
Community Efficiency Financing
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Community efficiency financing
Innovative municipal financing removes barriers to energy-efficiency upgrades for homeowners
Local energy generation
Case study: Building sustainable communities with district energy
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Case study: Sustainable future for a riverside village
The Rural Municipality of St. François Xavier created a sustainable community plan to influence planning and development decisions affecting village infrastructure, transportation, community design and the environment.
Case study: Vancouver becoming world's greenest city
Already known for environmental sustainability, the City of Vancouver has adopted a plan to become the world's greenest city by 2020.
Case study: Sustainability Plans
The northwest B.C. Town of Smithers has completed comprehensive sustainability plans that will reduce public and private sector energy use and GHG emissions.
Case study: Island community seeks to preserve quality of life
To foster job-generating growth without undermining its laid-back cottage-country lifestyle, the Town of Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands adopted a plan to extend the local tourist season and attract investment in golf courses, small breweries, honey farms and other businesses that appeal to visitors.
Sustainable affordable housing
Energy
John Street Apartments and Municipal Garage Project
The John Street Apartments (now called Chapelview) was undertaken in response to a growing need for affordable housing in the Regional Municipality of Peel.
Land Use
Case study: A sustainable vision for Grand Falls
The Town of Grand Falls created a five-year sustainable community plan that articulates the town's goals across eight themes, including economic development, environmental leadership and healthy living.
Water
Case study: Bromont 2030 A shared vision for sustainability
The City of Bromont, a tourist haven, is experiencing a population boom. The municipal council is taking steps to ensure that this growth occurs while respecting the environment, the surrounding countryside and the quality of life in the community.
Water
Case study: Regional Integrated Community Sustainability Plan
The United Counties of Leeds and Grenville developed a Regional Integrated Community Sustainability Plan (ICSP) that provides a strategic framework for its 12 municipalities (10 members and two partners) to address sustainability objectives and priorities.
Land Use
Case study: Aligning policies in an eco industrial zone
Partners in Project Green (a partnership managed by the Toronto Regional Conservation Authority) created tools to help harmonize land-use policies in the eco-industrial area around Toronto's airport.
Case study: Campbell River works with First Nations to plan a sustainable future
The Campbell River Community Plan charts a course to preserve the environment, develop the economy and manage growth.
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