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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

Webinar recording

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.

Energy | Housing

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

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Trees

Forestry

Factsheet: Site selection and preparation

Learn important considerations for choosing where to plant trees and how to prepare for planting in sites where conditions are less than ideal.

Two freshly planted trees along a city road.

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Trees

Forestry

Factsheet: Urban forestry technology and tools

Learn about key technology and tools that your local government can use to measure, analyze and make decisions about its community tree canopy.

Man using a drone to map canopy cover in his community.

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Trees

Forestry

Factsheet: An urban forestry overview

Learn about urban forestry, why it’s important and how increasing tree canopy cover can address climate change and social inequities.

Several trees lining a sidewalk in Vancouver, BC

Case Study

Asset management

How the Village of Warfield, BC, updated and modernized its asset register

Take an in-depth look at how the Village of Warfield, BC, updated its data and information for water, sanitary and road assets and created a digitized asset register.

Aerial view of construction workers onsite.

Case Study

Municipal and community buildings

Energy | Housing

Setting net-zero standards: Vancouver builds Canada’s first Passive House firehall

The City of Vancouver set ambitious zero-emission goals for municipal construction projects, using the demolition and rebuilding of its Fire Hall #17 as an opportunity to test and showcase Passive House and other sustainable building standards.

Aerial view of a modern building with rooftop solar panels in an urban environment

Case Study

Waste

Neighbouring municipalities create a pathway to sustainable procurement on P.E.I.

Charlottetown and Stratford, PE, identified sustainable procurement as an opportunity to increase their positive impact on the climate and the community. In partnership with a consultant, a five-year action plan was created to shift toward sustainable procurement, with some high-impact actions identified for more immediate change.

Cyclists riding down a tree-lined trail on a bright fall day

Case Study

Municipal and community buildings

Energy

Assessing the costs and benefits of renewable energy in Canmore, AB

The Town of Canmore’s 2018 Climate Action Plan included recommended steps to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and the Town embarked on a renewable energy feasibility study to further explore the costs and benefits of various options. Results show which options offer the highest value and are helping Canmore lower its emissions.