Tool
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.
Tool
Municipal and community buildings
Municipal and community buildings
Guides: Equity and non-energy benefits of community building retrofits
Explore the equity and other non-energy benefits of retrofitting community buildings.
Tool
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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Guide
Asset management
Asset management
Guide: How to develop an asset management policy and strategy
Learn how to set up a sustainable asset management approach in your municipality. Hear from other communities that have successfully built asset management systems.
Guide
Asset management
Asset management
Guide: Building sustainable communities with asset management
Discover how asset management practices help municipalities sustainably manage infrastructure and deliver services over the long term.
Webinar recording
Transportation
Transportation
Webinar recording: Solutions to municipal sustainability challenges
Watch our webinar recordings to learn how you can address sustainability challenges in waste management, transportation and asset management in your municipality.
Video
Asset management
Asset management
Video: Why invest in asset management
Is your municipality struggling to plan for growth, the effects of climate change and infrastructure updates? Watch this video to see how asset management planning can help.
Webinar recording
Land Use
Land Use
Webinar recording: Introduction to the brownfield redevelopment process
Watch this webinar recording for an introduction to the process of developing a brownfield site in your community, from the environmental assessment to site remediation.
Tool
Asset management
Asset management
Asset management resource library
Are you searching for the best guides, tools and templates to help you implement asset management at your municipality? Check out our curated library organized by topic.
Case Study
Home energy and resilience upgrades
Energy
Home energy and resilience upgrades
Energy
2015 FCM Sustainable Communities Award — Energy program
Homeowners in Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), NS, can take advantage of municipal financing through the Solar City program to install solar-powered water heating systems, lower their energy bills, and reduce water consumption.
Case Study
Home energy and resilience upgrades
Energy
Home energy and resilience upgrades
Energy
2016 FCM Sustainable Communities Awards — Energy Program
Toronto's Home Energy Loan Program (HELP) and High-Rise Retrofit Improvement Support Program (Hi-RIS) provide low-interest, long-term loans to finance energy and water efficiency retrofits for private residential buildings.
Guide
Land Use
Land Use
Guide: Tendering a municipal brownfield project
Conducting an efficient tendering process is a key step in managing a successful brownfield redevelopment project.
Case Study
Transportation
Transportation
Small municipality faces its challenges head-on
The urban-rural Town of Minto developed an integrated sustainable community plan to help it meet the challenges of slow population growth and a shortage of jobs.
