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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 and community 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 and community 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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Municipal and community buildings

Energy

Supporting local success stories across the Canadian Prairies

Discover how GMF funding is helping communities with unique local contexts reach their economic, social and climate goals.

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Municipal and community buildings

Energy

Toolkit: Improving energy efficiency in Alberta community buildings

Explore how municipalities across Alberta are improving community buildings with energy-efficient upgrades. Discover practical advice and proven strategies.

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Local energy generation

Energy

Case study: Lac-Mégantic on the path to energy transition

Lac-Mégantic has a plan to build back sustainably after a train derailed downtown. Learn how Mission Mégawatt has the whole community on board.

Case Study

Municipal and community buildings

Energy

Case study: How recreation centres can function as resilience hubs

After Hurricane Fiona, a local recreation centre in Pictou County became a temporary shelter for incoming power crews. Learn how the community turned to this facility in a time of crisis.

Guide

Municipal and community buildings

Energy

Guide: How to maximize funding for community building energy efficiency upgrades

Learn how to leverage GMF's Community Buildings Retrofit initiative to boost energy efficiency and cost savings.

Webinar recording

Municipal and community buildings

Energy

Webinar recording: Addressing municipal challenges through sustainability

A webinar on the socioeconomic benefits of environmental initiatives and how to increase your GMF funding chances.

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Municipal and community buildings

Energy

Save energy, cut costs: Using GMF support in Quebec

Discover how municipalities in Quebec are upgrading their community buildings to lower costs, create local jobs and enhance building comfort.

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Sustainable affordable housing

Energy

Webinar recording: Building for the future with better community housing

Watch the discussion to learn about an award-winning sustainable affordable housing project.

A rendering of the new development at 420 Kingscourt Drive in Region of Waterloo. It has two brown-brick buildings, each in an L shape with four storeys, and a driveway and courtyard in the middle, surrounded by greenery.

Case Study

Municipal and community buildings

Energy

Case study: Retrofitting three community facilities for shared heating

Learn how Abbotsford, B.C.’s recreation centre’s Heat Recovery & Optimization (HeRO) project is reducing emissions and boosting accessibility.

Photo of the Abbotsford Recreation Centre

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Municipal and community buildings

Energy

Case study: Caledon’s Corporate Energy Revolving Fund is sustaining itself

Learn about Caledon’s innovative solution to implementing energy efficiency measures without incurring significant upfront costs.

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Local energy generation

Energy

Case study: Sustainable heating from unlikely sources

Metro Vancouver’s award-winning policy turns waste heat into community power.

A waste heat to energy building in Metro Vancouver

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Retrofit of recreational or cultural facility

Energy

Case Study: The City of Markham’s Battle of the Buildings

The City of Markham’s Battle of the Buildings competition educated and encouraged facility staff to reduce electricity consumption through low-cost operational and behavioral changes.

Photo of the City of Markham's Cornell Community Centre, ON

Webinar recording

Sustainable affordable housing

Energy

Webinar recording: How housing providers can help residents during energy retrofits

Watch the discussion on how to take advantage of the Housing Providers’ Toolkit.

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Webinar recording

Local energy generation

Energy

Webinar recording: New GMF funding and support to accelerate community energy systems

Watch our webinar to explore GMF’s new funded learning offer: Accelerating Community Energy Systems. Discover best practices, funding insights and strategies for your municipality.