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Partnering for progress: accelerating deep energy retrofits in canada
Green Communities Canada (GCC) would like to thank our funders Peter Gilgan Foundation, Trottier Family Foundation, and McConnell Foundation (along with in-kind contributions from Google and Salesforce) for supporting the development of our national Deep Energy...
ONTARIO BIKE BUSES ARE REVAMPING STUDENTS’ ROUTES TO SCHOOL
If you don’t yet know what a “bike bus” is, it is time to take note. The concept started gaining social media attention in 2021 through videos from Barcelona showing hundreds of children cycling to school together while taking over entire streets. After the “bicibús”...
Living Cities Canada Fund Will Create New Green Spaces In 28 Communities in 2023-24
Peterborough, ON, 4 October, 2023: Increasing heat events are threatening the safety and well-being of Canadians. Accessible and thriving green spaces can help make our cities better places to live. Green Communities Canada (GCC) is excited to support the creation of...
Transform Stream Projects Undertake Community Mapping to Implement Equitable Green Infrastructure
Climate change affects everyone differently. As poet Damian Barr famously wrote, “We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm. Some are on super-yachts. Some have just the one oar." Barr originally penned this line about the pandemic, but power and...
Geothermal Heat Pump Helped Reduce This Home’s Energy Use By 64 Per Cent
Karen Watts-Plater, her partner David Harvey, and mother-in-law Margaret Plater live on a small hobby farm in the Beaver Valley in central Ontario. The trio's home is an 1875-built house on a farm Watts-Plater and her late husband John Plater bought over twenty years...
GCNews September: A commitment to equity, diversity, & inclusion
Support from the federal government’s Community Services Recovery Fund is enabling Green Communities Canada to work with our member organizations to advance our collective commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and reconciliation through a shared, facilitated...
School Travel Data Collection Pilot to Take Place Across BC and Ontario
In early 2023, Green Communities Canada received $100,000 in funding from Infrastructure Canada’s National Active Transportation Fund to conduct research about how students across British Columbia and Ontario get to school. To do this important research, Green...
EDI Project Led By Green Communities Canada Gets Support From the Government of Canada
Green Communities Canada is taking another step towards the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) commitments we made in our Strategic Direction. We have been successful in our application to the Government of Canada’s Community Services Recovery Fund. With support...
BC Homeowner Achieves 62 per cent reduction in home energy consumption
Tim Matthews and his family of four bought their home in the Killarney neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, in March 2020, on the eve of the first pandemic lockdown. At the time of purchase, the duplex built in 1971 had a gas furnace and gas water heater....
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