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Mini Forest Summit: Generating Momentum for the Urban Forest Movement in Canada
How thrilling is it to be in a room full of people who share the same vision — the vision of Canadian communities with thriving mini forests. I had the pleasure to experience this at the Mini Forest Summit held in Ottawa on October 19. I represented Green Communities...
Over 8,000 deep energy retrofits in 3 years raises hope about achieving GHG targets, but federal incentives must grow: Report
Peterborough, On, 8 November 2023: Green Communities Canada has completed an in-depth review of federal data on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Canada’s low-rise housing sector and makes recommendations for improving the effectiveness of the Canada Greener...
Kingston Home Adds Solar and Heat Pump to Get 84 Per Cent Energy Savings
Diana Wyatt and Craig Campbell live in a 1997-built family home located in the greater Kingston area. In spring 2022, Campbell and Wyatt undertook a deep energy retrofit that dropped their home’s energy use from the grid by 100 GJ — an 84 per cent reduction in energy...
GCC welcomes a new member organization
Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO) is Green Communities Canada’s newest member organization. A unit of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke, KEPO started as a grassroots movement protesting the damming of the Lachine Rapids as well as illegal dumping, and has...
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 Henry, 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...
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