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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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Land Use
Land Use
Brownfield Roadmap: Prince Edward Island
Use this easy-to-follow path to navigate the processes, legislative framework and funding for redeveloping brownfields in Prince Edward Island.
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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
Energy
Municipal and community buildings
Energy
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.