Urban Connector Blog
Informed and engaged citizens make our communities great. Urban connectors are innovators, change makers, and city builders. They are people who get involved to make their community a better place. With two-thirds of the world population estimated to be urban dwellers by 2050, we need to get cities right – for people, governments and budgets. More than 8 of 10 Canadian already live in urban environments where there are endless opportunities to grow healthy and prosperous communities. This blog explores some of these possibilities with a focus on energy and climate change.
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Getting to implementation
March 10, 2021 — An effective community energy plan will have engaged a broad cross-section of the community in its development. The simple reason why is that successful implementation rests on the buy-in and contributions of the community - public sector, private sector, civil society and individuals. Maintaining momentum after the initial planning process can be challenging. Communities quickly learn that they don’t...
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Going against the tide
November 11, 2020 — Community energy planning allows a community to understand their local energy system so they can identify the best local opportunities to reduce energy consumption, emissions, and costs. This is what it means to be an energy conscious community. So, community energy planning is going with the tide when it comes to fighting climate change. Half of Canada’s greenhouse gas...
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Energy Conscious Communities Defined
November 10, 2020 — What is an energy conscious community? There are lots of technical ways to describe it, but I believe it comes down to this. An energy conscious community understands its local energy system. When we relied on a pre-industrial energy system – when we burned wood for warmth and to cook our food, raised working animals to plow the land...
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