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Watershed Management Insights from an Indigenous-Led Community Flood Plain Mapping Project
Featured image: Turtle Island, by Mi’Kmaq artist Louretta Gould In 2021, more than $2B of damage was recorded in Canada due to severe weather events. Aging and poorly maintained stormwater infrastructure paired with increased severity and duration of rain events puts...
Mississauga Students give School Streets an A+ for Fun!
Singing, bubble blowing, chalk drawing, and many more activities were enjoyed along a temporary car-free Havenwood Drive as part of the City of Mississauga’s School Streets pilot project. To celebrate the initiative, students, elected officials, and community members...
How green infrastructure can make our cities safer, healthier and more climate resilient
Pic Courtesy: Chesapeake Bay Program. CC BY-NC 2.0 Cities in Canada are losing greenspace at an alarming rate, per a recent satellite study conducted by Statistics Canada. The research found that three quarters of Canada’s largest urban centres were detectably less...
Car-free ‘School Streets’ launch in Markham
The Markham School Streets Pilot launched at John McCrae Public School, creating temporary road closures during peak school drop-off and pick-up times. The Pilot is closing Sticker Avenue for four consecutive Wednesdays in May.
17 Native summer-blooming plants for your Rain Garden
Tired of your garden getting soggy during a heavy rain and drying up with the summer heat? Building a water wise rain garden with the right plants will help soak up excess rainwater and bank it for those hot and dry days. We have compiled a list of plants that will...
GCNews May 2022: Electrifying the ride to school
An estimated 2.2 million Canadian children take the school bus each year, exposing them to air pollution from diesel-fueled vehicles. Green Communities Canada, in partnership with Équiterre, is working to change that by greening the school bus commute. The Canadian...
Key features of the Toronto Active and Safe Routes to School Pilot Project
Toronto’s Active and Safe Routes to School (ASRTS) pilot project has tested methods to improve safety along designated routes to school and to encourage more students to walk and wheel on their school journeys.
Five ways to cope with climate/eco anxiety, according to a registered therapist
Written with input from Alix Taylor Climate anxiety or eco-anxiety is on the rise. Increasing scientific evidence and reports that time is running out to act on climate change are likely not helping the situation. Many studies show that children and youth are...
GCNews April 2022: GCC unveils its new Strategic Plan
Green Communities Canada is excited to unveil its new Strategic Plan. Building on more than 25 years of collective impact as a leading community-based climate action movement, the new plan maps how we will work together with our members from across the country to...
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