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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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Transportation
Transportation
Case study: Ways Ottawa increases cycling with green transit options
Follow Ottawa's lead and integrate transit and cycling to increase bike use year-round.
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Waste
Waste
Case study: How Saint-Hyacinthe turns organic waste into biogas and revenue
Learn how a Quebec community creates biogas plus environmental and economic benefits from organic waste.
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Energy
Energy
Case study: Innovative projects prepare older Brampton suburbs for climate change
Learn how Brampton, ON, is preparing its older suburbs for climate change.
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Municipal and community buildings
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Municipal and community buildings
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Case study: Why net-zero energy buildings reduce emissions and costs for communities
This article is part of a series called Six sustainability ideas that have gone mainstream in Canada.
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Land Use
Land Use
Ladysmith Waterfront Brownfield Study
The Town of Ladysmith commissioned three studies of contamination at a former industrial site on its waterfront, to review options for remediation.
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Land Use
Land Use
Phase II Environmental Site Assessment and Remedial Action Plan, Cooper Site
As part of a plan to build a University of Waterloo satellite campus next to its downtown core, the City of Stratford completed a Phase II Environmental Site Assessment and Remedial Action Plan for the Cooper Site, a 7-hectare former industrial site.
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Energy
Energy
Case study: Saint John explores options for district energy system
The City of Saint John studied the feasibility of a district energy system to serve buildings in the downtown area. These systems distribute thermal energy from a central facility to heat and cool multiple buildings.
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Land Use
Land Use
Case study: Community Sustainability Plan
The Town of Ladysmith developed a Sustainable Action Plan that provides the framework for sustainable prosperity throughout the 21st century. Adopting the plan is an important step toward achieving the Town's Sustainability Vision, which it developed in 2008-2009.
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Land Use
Land Use
District moves to revitalize downtown neighbourhood
To revive a downtown drained of stores and shoppers by malls on the highway that has skirted the community since 1990, the district of West Kelowna drafted a 25-year plan to remake the central Westbank Centre neighbourhood as a pedestrian-friendly place to live, work and play.
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Energy
Energy
Toronto’s Exhibition Place brightens pedestrian pathway with LED lights
Eager to showcase green technologies and save on electrical costs, Toronto's Exhibition Place replaced 50 high-pressure sodium lampposts along a pedestrian walkway with light-emitting diode (LED) fixtures.
