Guide
Waste
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.
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Tool
Energy
Energy
Resource library: Community Buildings Retrofit
Find practical case studies and guidance for planning your local community building retrofit.
Energy | Housing
Case Study: Building greener Indigenous housing
Guide
Energy
Energy
Community Efficiency Financing market guide
Guide to help Canadian municipalities assess potential home energy upgrade programs
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Webinar recording
Energy | Housing
Energy | Housing
Webinar recording: How to get a project started, tips for small francophone communities
If you’re a small francophone municipality looking to develop sustainability projects and access funding, watch this webinar to learn how others overcame common challenges.
Webinar recording
Transportation
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.
Webinar recording
Transportation
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.
Case Study
Transportation
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.
Case Study
Transportation
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.
Case Study
Transportation
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.
Case Study
Transportation
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 Study
Transportation
Transportation
Case Study: A shift to sustainable transport in Atlantic Quebec
In an effort to reduce GHG emissions from transportation and provide more equitable transport options, a group of municipalities in the Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine region teamed up with transit organization RÉGÎM to create TCiTé, a shared mobility project.
Webinar recording
Transportation
Transportation
Webinar recording: How to electrify your municipal fleet
Learn how to electrify your municipal fleet of vehicles, leading to reduced GHG emissions and healthier communities.
Guide
Transportation
Transportation
Priority Municipal Actions to Enable Zero Emission Vehicle Adoption
GMF and Low Carbon Cities Canada (LC3) collaborated to create six priority municipal actions to accelerate zero emission vehicle adoption.
Video
Transportation
Transportation
Video: The ongoing story of Banff’s hybrid bus fleet project
Listen to Michael Hay, Manager of Environment & Sustainability telling the story of Banff’s hybrid bus fleet
Video
Transportation
Transportation
Video: New electric vehicle-sharing system reduces emissions and generates revenue
Six municipalities in Quebec have added electric vehicles to their fleets and made them available to residents through a car-sharing system.
Webinar recording
Energy
Energy
Webinar recording: The 5 keys to a green municipal project business case
Watch this webinar recording and discover the five critical focus areas you need to address to get your project started, from financing and partnerships to integrating a triple-bottom-line approach.
Case Study
Transportation
Transportation
Case study: Innovative on-demand transit system gets Cochrane, AB, residents where they’re going
With a better understanding of community needs and local transit options, the Town developed an on-demand transit system that provides affordable, accessible transportation to the community and operates at one-third the cost of a similar fixed route service.
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Waste
Waste
Case studies: 2020 Sustainable Communities Award winners
Discover the outstanding environmental initiatives that received FCM’s 2020 Sustainable Communities awards.
Case Study
Land Use
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.
Case Study
Transportation
Transportation
Case study: Region of Waterloo, ON, develops LRT to connect its urban centres
In 2019, the Region of Waterloo, ON, welcomed its first passengers on the ION Light Rail Transit system.
Case Study
Transportation
Transportation
Community-led vehicle charging network drives big shift in rural setting
Thanks to a bold, shared vision and effective collaboration, new infrastructure for electric vehicles has attracted tourists and reduced emissions across BC’s rural Kootenay region.
Case Study
Transportation
Transportation
New electric vehicle-sharing system reduces emissions and generates revenue
Six forward-thinking municipalities in Quebec have added electric vehicles to their fleets and made them available to residents and partners through a car-sharing system for municipalities in the region.
Case Study
Transportation
Transportation
Tourist hub in Rockies rolls out Canada’s first all-hybrid bus fleet
To reduce its GHG impacts, the Town of Banff replaced its diesel transit buses with hybrid biodiesel-electric models, becoming the first municipality in Canada to run an all-hybrid fleet.
