Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2007 		Français
New funding opportunity for municipal solid waste projects
GMF will award up to $10 million in loans and $2 million in grants under this Request for Proposals (RFP).

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Director’s message
Communities across Canada are adopting sustainable development as a way to improve quality of life, reduce costs and reach higher standards of air, water and soil quality, and climate protection.

The FCM Centre for Sustainable Community Development offers resources to support that action.

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Ucluelet wins awards
This has been an extraordinary year for the District of Ucluelet, B.C.

It started in June at FCM’s 69th Annual Conference and Municipal ExpoTM in Montreal when Ucluelet won a 2006 FCM-CH2M HILL Sustainable Community Award for sustainable community planning.

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FCM Capacity Building Workshops
A national series of workshops to explore capacity building needs.

Agir avec les collectivités
Federal workshop on sustainable development
February 6-8, 2007
Montreal, Quebec

Americana 2007
International Environmental Technology
Trade Show and Conference
March 20-22, 2007
Montreal, Quebec

Tools for Action
The International Forum on Applied
Sustainable Development: Tools for Action
June 18-20, 2007
Sherbrooke, Quebec
Update: Capacity building

In 2006, the FCM Centre for Sustainable Community Development (CSCD) launched a municipal Capacity Building program.

To develop the program, CSCD is consulting with municipal governments to gather feedback on their needs as they pertain to six areas of municipal activity: brownfields, energy, planning, transportation, waste and water.  

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News: GMF fosters change

CSCD recently began examining the impact of Green Municipal Fund (GMF) grants for feasibility studies, field tests, sustainable community plans and assessments.

The Centre took a close look at how these studies translated into the implementation of capital projects. The findings were simple: GMF studies foster exciting change in communities. 

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News: GMF transfers knowledge

CSCD is pleased to release case studies of three GMF-funded initiatives
Update: Community Energy Mission 2006
From the moment your vehicle crawls out of England's Heathrow Airport onto the M4, you know that even the worst Canadian traffic jam cannot compare with what London commuters face every day.

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News: ACT solutions

The Affordability and Choice Today (ACT) program encourages housing affordability and choice through regulatory reform.

Through projects carried out in municipalities across the country, ACT has generated a significant body of work and a range of regulatory solutions that can be adapted by communities throughout Canada.

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