Resources

Energy

Webinar recording: Planning for net-zero emissions

Municipal leaders and experts discuss strategies for achieving net-zero emissions targets and scaling up climate action efforts at the local level.

Waste

Webinar recording: Net-Zero Circularity: Procurement

Watch this webinar recording to see how circular procurement can help put the principles of a circular economy into action.

Webinar recording: Become a Climate Champion for Your Community

Watch this webinar recording to see how community climate champions face unique challenges in their role as they drive forward new ideas, mobilize partners, build relationships, and make tough decisions.

Water

Webinar Recording: Sustainable municipal water management

Watch the webinar recording to discover current trends and research on the importance of sustainable municipal water management.

Home energy and resilience upgrades

Energy

Video: Durham Region, ON launches novel financing model

A video showcasing innovative and accessible financing options for home-energy upgrades.

Land Use

Learning Journey: Brownfields Redevelopment in your community

Find out how to rehabilitate and redevelop brownfields

Sustainable affordable housing

Energy | Housing

Case Study: Building greener Indigenous housing

Municipal fleet electrification

Transportation

Webinar recording: Removing funding and policy barriers to municipal fleet electrification

Watch this recording to learn how to electrify your municipal fleet of vehicles, reduce GHG emissions and build a healthier community.

Asset management

How to implement asset management in your municipality

Discover how to make asset management practices a part of your municipality’s daily business decision-making framework. Learn from a video, case study and checklist, developed to support your municipality.

Asset management

Balancing sustainable service delivery and municipal budgets

Waste

Resources: Strengthening your municipality’s circular economy initiatives

Find case studies, exercises and worksheets to help your municipality reduce waste and strengthen its circular economy initiatives.

Municipal and community buildings

Energy

Community Buildings Retrofit Advisory Service

The CBR Advisory Service is a new service that is intended to help smaller municipalities by matching them to industry leaders who understand best practices in the CBR field and can help provide personalized coaching and advice, including clarified goals, insights, and replicable results.

Municipal fleet electrification

Transportation

Webinar recording: Expert advice on electric vehicles for municipalities

Watch this webinar recording to hear from industry experts and municipal staff who have already embraced electrification on lessons learned and how to overcome common challenges.

Home energy and resilience upgrades

Energy

Community Efficiency Financing market guide

Guide to help Canadian municipalities assess potential home energy upgrade programs

Local energy generation

Energy

Webinar recording: An introduction to district energy

Learn how a centralized heating and cooling system can help your municipality reduce GHG emissions and save money.

Municipal fleet electrification

Transportation

Article series: How communities across Canada are electrifying their municipal fleets

This article series features inspiring ideas and projects being implemented in Canadian cities and towns of all sizes. Each article explores an innovative approach to electrifying municipal fleets.

Municipal fleet electrification

Transportation

Kingston overcomes fleet electrification barriers by adopting a leasing model

Confronted with financial, technological and policy barriers to electrification, the city developed a proactive strategy around a leasing policy to build their EV fleets. Discover how leasing can ease supply chain issues and support electrification until advanced EV technology becomes available in the market. This article is part of a series called Electrifying municipal vehicles.

Municipal fleet electrification

Transportation

West Vancouver overcomes fleet charging barriers by upgrading the electrical capacity of municipal facilities

Facing common roadblocks related to lack of charging infrastructure? Learn how the city overcame these barriers by conducting a full electrical system update of two key municipal facilities and installing chargers for existing and future EVs. This article is part of a series called Electrifying municipal vehicles.

Municipal fleet electrification

Transportation

Calgary scales its electric fleets to reduce transportation emissions

When municipal staff was tasked with incorporating hybrid and fully electric vehicles into the municipal fleet, they encountered a variety of procurement, operational and process barriers. Learn how they broke through these barriers and acquired more than 30 EVs in 3 years to create one of the fastest growing EV fleets in western Canada. This article is part of a series called Electrifying municipal vehicles.

Case studies: 2022 Sustainable Communities Award winners