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Energy
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
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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Land Use
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.
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Land Use
Land Use
Former Rayleigh Correctional Site – Environmental Management and Remediation Plan
The City of Kamloops evaluated the extent of soil and groundwater contamination on a portion of the municipally-owned site of the former provincial Rayleigh Correctional Centre.
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Local energy generation
Energy
Local energy generation
Energy
County studies creating electricity from waste
Dufferin County is considering an energy-from-waste solution for its garbage.
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Waste
Waste
Case study: Côte-de-Beaupré Adopts an Integrated, Development Plan
To support long-term community planning, the Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality (MRC) has produced an integrated sustainability plan.
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Water
Water
Article series: Tips for a successful wastewater treatment plant upgrade
Implement a successful wastewater treatment plant upgrade with help from this series of three articles packed with best practices from GMF-funded projects. Read the articles.
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Transportation
Transportation
Lockeport proposes a vision for its future
The Town of Lockeport developed an integrated community sustainability plan in collaboration with its citizens to guide its environmental, social, cultural and economic development for 30-plus years.
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Case study: City lays groundwork for sustainability
To spur its economy and freshen its look, the City of Saint John made plans to overhaul its aging water system, reduce poverty in five struggling neighbourhoods, and clean up the unsightly and polluted downtown Marsh Creek waterway.
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Case study: Sustainability “greenprint” is far-reaching
The City of Markham developed an integrated sustainable community plan to serve as a blueprint for environmental, economic, social and cultural development over the next 50-plus years.
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Water
Water
Case study: Facility upgrades help Cranbrook enhance agricultural production
Learn how Cranbrook, BC, modernized its wastewater treatment plant, resulting in cleaner effluent that can be used for agricultural irrigation. Read the case study.
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Water
Water
Case study: How Barrie’s new wastewater plant improves capacity and efficiency
Learn how the City of Barrie, ON, expanded its wastewater treatment plant to minimize sewer runoff, increase biogas production and serve the city's growing population.
