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Access practical, hands-on tools, resources and knowledge to help you address your municipality’s unique challenges. Whether you’re looking to refine your project idea or build local capacity, our expert resources are designed to bring clarity and vision to your project or goal—no matter where you’re starting from.

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Climate Adaptation

Factsheet: Why equity matters in municipal climate adaptation

Discover how your local government can build equity into its climate resilience activities. Read this factsheet for key definitions and helpful resources.

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Municipal buildings

Guide: Taking your indoor swimming pool to net zero

A guide with key measures and lessons learned to help you build a plan for net-zero indoor swimming pools.

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Municipal buildings

Guides: Equity and non-energy benefits of community building retrofits

Explore the equity and other non-energy benefits of retrofitting community buildings.

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Trees

Factsheet: Urban forest planning

Read up on why developing an urban forest plan is important for the long-term success of trees in your community.

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Trees

Forestry

Video: How Wetaskiwin is nurturing healing and Reconciliation through community forestry

Watch how Wetaskiwin’s Ma ma tâ wan Sakâw Healing Forest brings together urban rewilding, wetland protection and ecological Reconciliation.

Two community members planting seedlings on empty land.

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Trees

Forestry

Making the business case for trees in your community

Experts unpack how municipalities can effectively communicate the value of investing in urban forests

A person outside on a sunny day, with their head tilted back, eyes closed, and a smile on their face, savoring the air purified by the trees.

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Trees

Forestry

Video: How the City of Cornwall is achieving tree equity

This case study explores how the City of Cornwall is meeting its Climate Action Plan goals including increasing tree canopy; and restoring, enhancing, and protecting green spaces in vulnerable neighbourhoods.

A couple walking under urban tree canopy

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Trees

Forestry

Factsheet: Managing wildfire hazards while growing community canopies

This factsheet explains how urban foresters, planners and their partners can create wildfire-resilient communities by assessing risks and addressing them in urban forest management.

Wide firebreak cutting through forested area.

Case Study

Trees

Forestry

Urban forest management plans: turning goals into action

Municipal leaders and experts unpack what makes a strong urban forest management plan, the pressures shaping urban forestry, and what it takes to move from approval to action.

Municipal buildings

Case studies: Winners of FCM's 2024 Sustainable Communities Awards

Discover the outstanding environmental initiatives that received FCM’s Sustainable Communities Awards in 2024.

Three photos of 2024 Sustainable Communities Award winning projects

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Trees

Forestry

Webinar recording: Tools for valuing trees as natural assets

Explore tools and approaches to help municipalities integrate trees into asset management practices that deliver climate and community benefits.

A bird's eye view of a community forest.

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Trees

Forestry

Video: How Kitchener is scaling up its urban canopy cover

This case study portrays how the City of Kitchener,ON is expanding its urban canopy while improving climate resilience, biodiversity and tree equity across communities.