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Resource Land Use Land Use

Tool: Benefits of Sustainable Brownfield Activities

Cleaning up contaminants and redeveloping a brownfield site can bring communities a number of environmental, economic and social benefits. You can achieve even greater benefits by incorporating sustainable approaches throughout the site remediation and risk management activities. Environmental b…

December 17, 2018

Case Study Community efficiency financing Community efficiency financing

Learn how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency retrofit programs

Climate change is significantly impacting communities across Canada. Recognizing that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are driving these climate disruptions, municipalities are leading the way in developing ambitious plans to reduce emissions. Unfortunately, reducing the GHGs emitted from homes is…

May 26, 2020

Resource Transportation Transportation

Webinar recording: Solutions to municipal sustainability challenges

This webinar series focuses on topics that were featured at FCM's 2018 Sustainable Communities Conference, which was held in Ottawa, ON, from February 6 to 8, 2018. Is your municipality looking for sustainable solutions to waste management, to neighbourhood infrastructure retrofit or t…

November 14, 2018

Case Study Waste Waste

Case study: Quebec community serves as a model zero-waste example

Project type Grant amount Community Pilot project $32,700 Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie, Montréal, QC
Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie is a densely populated central part of Montréal with nearly 140,000 residents. In 2016, 63 per cent of it…

August 19, 2019

Case Study

Case study: Sustainable future for a riverside village

St. François Xavier Sustainable Community Plan The Rural Municipality of St. François Xavier created a sustainable community plan to influence planning and development decisions affecting village infrastructure, transportation, community design and the environment. Over the course of a year,…

December 14, 2018

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Case study: Gander seeks to address growth

Integrated Community Sustainability Plan The Town of Gander grew by 11 per cent between 2006 and 2011 — about  100 housing starts a year over the past five years.

This growth is straining Gander's infrastructure, particularly the town's sewage system. It is also incr…

December 10, 2018

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Case study: County of Lambton Integrated Community Sustainability Plan

The County of Lambton developed an Integrated Community Sustainability Plan (ICSP) to identify its environmental, social and economic goals, and determine the ways in which it will achieve them. Lambton County is made up of 11 local municipalities, and includes three First Nations and a mix of u…

December 4, 2014

Case Study Energy Energy

Case study: Sunshine Coast completes regional energy and sustainability plan

The Sunshine Coast Regional District developed two plans that move it toward a more sustainable future.

The first is a broad strategy called We Envision: One Coast, Together in Nature, Culture and Community. It sets out 13 interrelated mini-plans to achieve environmental, so…

December 4, 2018

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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. One of the fastest-growing municipalities in Ontario, the city wanted to develop a plan that would preserve th…

December 4, 2018