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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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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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Plan provides catalyst for brownfield redevelopment
To give itself new opportunities and a new look, the Town of Fort Erie drafted a brownfield revitalization plan that offers developers tax and other incentives to clean up and redevelop more than 250 acres of vacant, abandoned, and possibly contaminated industrial sites.
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Former Rayleigh Correctional Site – Environmental Management and Remediation Plan
The City of Kamloops evaluated the extent of soil and groundwater contamination on a portion of the municipally-owned site of the former provincial Rayleigh Correctional Centre.
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Waste
Waste
Case study: Côte-de-Beaupré Adopts an Integrated, Development Plan
To support long-term community planning, the Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality (MRC) has produced an integrated sustainability plan.
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Land Use
2015 FCM Sustainable Communities Awards — Brownfields Plan
In the City of Langley, BC, a new Brownfield Redevelopment Strategy has delivered $192 million in new construction and 850 new jobs.
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2015 FCM Sustainable Communities Awards — Brownfields Project
In a departure from the conventional 'dig and dump' approach to contaminated soil, the City of Kingston, ON, chose an innovative underground filtering and cleaning technology to stop the flow of groundwater contaminants from Emma Martin Park into the Cataraqui River.
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Land Use
Soil-recycling study demonstrates clear benefits
Remediating the hundreds of hectares of former industrial lands on Toronto's waterfront will improve environmental health and reduce urban sprawl.
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Land Use
Case study: Gas station clean-up clears way for new development
As part of its green growth program, the City of Edmonton prepared a 10-year plan to clean up and redevelop 50 former gas stations.
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Land Use
Land Use
Case study: Taking action on brownfields
Discover how municipalities across Canada have redeveloped their brownfield sites and returned them to productive use. Read the case studies.
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2016 FCM Sustainable Communities Awards — Brownfields Program
With the aim of cleaning up former refuelling sites and revitalizing communities, the City of Edmonton's Brownfield Redevelopment Grant Program offers a generous selection of grants for all stages of brownfield remediation, including environmental performance incentives. Supported by FCM's Green Municipal Fund.
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2016 FCM Sustainable Communities Awards — Brownfields project
The Region of Waterloo and its partners helped transform an industrial brownfield site in the City of Kitchener's downtown into showcase offices, attracting tenants such as Google and reviving a central neighbourhood.