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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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Energy

Factsheets: Community Buildings Retrofit initiative

Learn how to retrofit existing community buildings to lower GHG emissions and extend their life cycle.

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Community efficiency financing

Case Study: An innovative path toward net-zero homes

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Energy

Webinar recording: How to start reducing GHG emissions in community buildings

Watch the discussion on how to create a GHG reduction pathway for community buildings.

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Case study: How one affordable housing provider created a net zero strategy

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Water

Case study: Neighbourhood model helps Toronto Region communities implement infrastructure retrofits

Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) and its nine participating partner municipalities saw a need for innovative approaches to expedite municipal infrastructure renewal, sustainability and climate action plans.

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Land Use

Case study: Campbell River, BC, develops plan to protect against rising sea levels

Learn how Campbell River, BC, developed an action plan to protect their community and coastline from the risk of sea level rise due to climate change.

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Sustainable affordable housing

Energy

Regional Energy Coaches

Regional Energy Coaches help affordable housing providers plan energy efficiency retrofits and new builds.

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Municipal and community buildings

Energy

Factsheets: Municipal Energy Roadmap

These factsheets offer specific guidance around building-level solutions, community-level solutions, and long-term strategies to help you drill down and meet your objectives.

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Local energy generation

Energy

Forestry waste proves ideal heat source for small town

In 2012, Saint-Ubalde, a small rural town in Quebec, launched a project to convert biowaste into biofuel to heat several municipal and institutional buildings.

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Municipal and community buildings

Energy

Canada’s first net-zero energy municipal library shows what’s possible

The City of Varennes, QC, is the first Canadian municipality to construct an institutional building that will soon produce as much energy as it consumes.

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Municipal and community buildings

Energy

New energy-efficient pool and fitness centre boost well-being in remote northern community

The City of Iqaluit, NU, rejuvenated its downtown core by transforming an abandoned and contaminated site into a popular and sustainable community hub

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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.