Community News Archive

Here is an interesting organization that is looking at how to reinvent your story to support the change you want.

Based on the 2010 Environmental Performance results Canada has scored an EPI of 66.4 ranking the country at number 46.

Victoria Smith, a Royal Roads University graduate and Manager, Aboriginal & Sustainable Communities—Customer Care is a BC Hydro Corporate Supervisor for BC Hydro's Sustainable Communities Research Collaborative (“SCRC”) Program.

The international scientific community has identified five Grand Challenges that, if addressed in the next decade, will deliver knowledge to enable sustainable development, poverty eradication, and environmental protection in the face of global change.

The five Grand Challenges are:

Green Matters and Green Shops, two cutting-edge greenhouse gas reduction initiatives created by the City of Fredericton, received international recognition from the organization International Awards for Liveable Communities.

An interesting question that's for sure. However that's the conclusion of the International Energy Agency, the Paris-based organization that provides energy analysis to 28 industrialized nations.

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ICLEI has released their Changing Climate, Changing Communities: Guide and Workbook for Municipal Climate Adaptation.

Presentations from a workshop entitled A Critical Conversation: Building Municipal Infrastructure, held this past February at Carleton is now available at http://www.cure-crfmu.org/critcon.html.

Ken Lyotier, a research partner on the Agency Project, has been named as 'Vancouver's Community Torchbearer'

The Network for Business Sustainability released a report today describing the top sustainability challenges facing business in 2010.