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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.
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Case Study
Energy | Housing
Plan Parksville – A vision for our future
The City of Parksville has developed a new Official Community Plan to address issues such as smart growth, climate change, downtown revitalization, sustainable tourism and shoreline protection.
Case Study
Energy | Housing
Mississauga puts green in its DNA
The City of Mississauga has a master plan to instill environmental consciousness in its corporate DNA.
Land Use
Case study: City of Corner Brook Integrated Municipal Sustainability Plan
The City of Corner Brook developed a 10-year integrated municipal sustainability plan (IMSP) that serves as a hybrid document, combining the goals and objectives of an integrated community sustainability plan with the legislative authority of a municipal plan.
Webinar recording
Land Use
Webinar recording: How to build partnerships to help revitalize your brownfields
Waterfronts were once bustling engines of a past industrial economy; some now sit vacant — void of the productivity that once supported their communities.
Guide
Waste
Six sustainability ideas that have gone mainstream in Canada: Article series
In a series of six articles, we explore inspiring projects and sustainability solutions being implemented in cities and towns of all sizes across Canada.
Webinar recording
Land Use
Webinar recording: Fostering brownfield redevelopment
Learn best practices in brownfield revitalization you can apply in your municipality, and understand FCM's brownfield funding opportunities and resources.
Case Study
Energy | Housing
Integrated Community Sustainability Plan
The city of Kingston wanted to create a sustainability plan with a difference.
Case Study
Energy | Housing
Integrated Planning for Community-Based Sustainability Framework
The City of Rivière-du-Loup has prioritized economic, environmental and social development in the community.
Case Study
Land Use
Sediment studied as a source of fill
To reduce economic and environmental costs, the District of Squamish tested sediment in a nearby ocean channel for use as fill in a major waterfront redevelopment project.
Case Study
Land Use
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.