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Climate Adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Factsheet: Why equity matters in municipal climate adaptation
Discover how your local government can build equity into its climate resilience activities. Read this factsheet for key definitions and helpful resources.
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Guide
Municipal and community buildings
Municipal and community buildings
Guide: Taking your indoor swimming pool to net zero
A guide with key measures and lessons learned to help you build a plan for net-zero indoor swimming pools.
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Municipal and community buildings
Municipal and community buildings
Guide: Equity and non-energy benefits of community building retrofits
Explore the equity and other non-energy benefits of retrofitting community buildings.
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Trees
Trees
Factsheet: Urban forest planning
Read up on why developing an urban forest plan is important for the long-term success of trees in your community.
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Municipal fleet electrification
Transportation
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.
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Case studies: 2022 Sustainable Communities Award winners
Discover the outstanding environmental initiatives that received FCM’s 2022 Sustainable Communities Awards.
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Municipal fleet electrification
Transportation
Municipal fleet electrification
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.
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Land Use
Land Use
Case Study: How Parkland County has uncovered the value of natural infrastructure
While natural assets such as wetlands are known to provide both tangible and intangible benefits for communities, their value can be hard to put a number on. The Alberta municipality of Parkland County has been experiencing extreme weather events and degradation of natural infrastructure. They evaluated the costs and benefits of maintaining and restoring wetlands and other ecosystems.
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Community efficiency financing
Energy | Housing
Community efficiency financing
Energy | Housing
Case Study: Helping Maritime homeowners boost energy efficiency
In three municipalities in P.E.I. and Nova Scotia, a new program is offering financing to homeowners to help them retrofit their houses for better efficiency — and to save money on energy costs, too.
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Waste
Waste
Case Study: How Lac-Saint-Jean’s Réemploi+ program is building a circular economy
A challenge facing many municipalities is how to divert more waste from landfill, both to lower GHG emissions and to reduce their need for landfill space. In Quebec’s Lac-Saint-Jean region, communities and waste management have teamed up to create Réemploi+, an organization that is creating a system for waste diversion and reuse while also developing skills training opportunities.
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Waste
Waste
Case Study: How Guelph-Wellington is building a sustainable food future
In order to find the most impactful ways to reduce food waste, Guelph-Wellington conducted a study that examined the local food system from production to export and consumption. It found a number of solutions to the food waste problem that have the potential to both address economic inequality and reduce the community’s carbon footprint.
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Municipal and community buildings
Energy
Municipal and community buildings
Energy
Case Study: Creating a shared path to net zero ice rinks
Many Canadian municipalities have declared a climate emergency and are seeking ways to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. One major contributor to these emissions is ice rinks, which make up about one-quarter of energy usage from municipal buildings. In order to find cost-effective ways to reduce the carbon footprint of these facilities, a group of municipalities teamed up to analyze the issue and create net zero road maps for themselves, as well as a pathway for other rinks to follow.
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Case Study: One Ontario community teams up to save turtles
Roads and vehicle traffic are a significant source of injury and mortality for wildlife, and road ecology experts are looking for ways to improve this situation, especially for species at risk. In one Ontario community, a road construction project presented an opportunity to try a new approach to reducing its impact on turtles and snakes. A group of partners came together to rescue reptiles from the roadside and research the effectiveness of various mitigation methods. The result? More than 3,500 turtle eggs saved, at a lower cost than traditional barrier fencing.
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Asset management
Asset management
Change management and asset management go hand-in-hand in Kelowna
Through its comprehensive asset management program, Kelowna is making data-driven decisions, improving operational efficiencies and reducing duplication of effort.
