Home energy and resilience upgrades
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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Land Use
Home energy and resilience upgrades
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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Asset management
One mayor’s approach to managing his community’s assets
Find out how the mayor of Pointe-Fortune started a municipal asset management process after completing a workshop.
Local Leadership for Climate Adaptation
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Asset management
Changing organizational culture in a tangible way
The Asset Management Competency Framework for Canadian Communities is a tool to help municipalities understand and build the knowledge and skills needed for asset management.
Local Leadership for Climate Adaptation
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Water
Mississauga road low-impact development stormwater pilot project
The Region of Peel put in place the Mississauga Road Project – a first for this type of green infrastructure approach to stormwater management in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
Municipal fleet electrification
Transportation
Regional Electric Car-Sharing System: The SAUVér Project
Ten Quebec municipalities are adding electric cars to their fleets, which will also be shared with the community. This innovative program will also develop a route for electric vehicles to travel longer distances and be charged at multiple stations along the route.
Asset management
Case studies: Using data to address water infrastructure vulnerabilities
Municipal assets and public services are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, placing local leaders at the frontlines of risk reduction and adaptation.
Local Leadership for Climate Adaptation
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Asset management
Case study: Raising the bar on asset management
A focus on sound, evidence-based planning has helped the City of Selkirk reverse a decades-long decline and become something of a leader in municipal asset management.
Local Leadership for Climate Adaptation
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Asset management
Case study: Better planning for Cowichan Valley Regional District
Cowichan Valley Regional District hopes that asset management can help overcome the many challenges it faces regarding infrastructure, service delivery and climate change.
Local Leadership for Climate Adaptation
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Asset management
Case study: Partnership produces results for five Ontario communities
By sharing knowledge and expertise, five communities in southwest Ontario have increased their capacity to manage community assets effectively.
Local Leadership for Climate Adaptation
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Asset management
Case study: Building asset management capacity in northern communities
Learn about the Joy of Governing, created by the Association of Yukon Communities (AYC).
Local Leadership for Climate Adaptation
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Asset management
Case study: Collaboration breeds success
Seven towns along Newfoundland’s west coast banded together to meet a shared challenge: ensuring that community infrastructure continues to deliver essential services such as clean drinking water and waste disposal.
Local Leadership for Climate Adaptation
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Water
Case study: Manitoba town leads innovation in northern communities
In 2016, the growing Town of Neepawa had pushed its lagoon system to the brink. The community decided to upgrade its wastewater system while taking future growth and sustainable development into consideration.
Energy
BC community centre supports families and children
The city of Maple Ridge, BC completed a GMF-funded study to determine the technical and financial feasibility of implementing energy efficiency guidelines for the centre.
Waste
Case study: Quebec community serves as a model zero-waste example
A GMF-funded pilot project in a densely-populated Montreal, QC, neighbourhood is expected to increase waste diversion by 30 to 50 per cent, and provide a replicable example to other communities.
CCRI
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Energy
Improving health and comfort for residents in the GTA
The City of Hamilton will help develop lessons learned and best practices for future scale-up efforts, and will add a multi-unit residential complex to the initiative.
Transportation
Case study: Nova Scotia's longest paved bike path in Cape Breton
A new bike path in Cape Breton, NS, not only connects key communities with the university, it takes vehicles off the road, lowers GHGs and stimulates the local economy. Learn more.
Asset management
Case study: Village of Ryley, AB
Local Leadership for Climate Adaptation
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Asset management
Case study: Rural Municipality of Frenchman Butte No. 501, SK
Local Leadership for Climate Adaptation
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Water
Case study: Okotoks proves natural stormwater management works
Okotoks, AB, is the 2018 winner in the water category of FCM’s Sustainable Communities Awards. See how natural stormwater systems benefit their community.
Case study: Small BC community gets big benefits from asset management
Starting from scratch, this small community adopted asset management practices that increase the village's sustainability and resilience.
Local energy generation
Energy
Case study: Switch to biomass cuts costs and GHG emissions in Yellowknife
The City of Yellowknife's Biomass District Energy System is the 2018 winner in the energy category of FCM's Sustainable Communities Awards.
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