Planning

Edging Forward. Ann Dale, Fernweh Press, 2018.

Edging Forward: Achieving Sustainable Community Development

Dec 07 2018 | IN Resilience | REVIEWED BY Sabrina M. Chiefari

Keeping the wheel turning in the drive towards sustainability.

The 2015-2017 Jane Glassco Northern Fellows. Deline, NWT/Photo by Pat Kane

Northern voices driving northern policy

Nov 30 2018 | IN Planning | BY A\J Staff

Using smart public policy to build up the North.

Incremental Livable - An A\J Q & A with Gordon Harris

Nov 12 2018 | IN Planning | BY A\J Staff

There's an urban revolution happening atop Burnaby Mountain showing sustainability and profitability do mix.

Pigeons perch on a window ledge. (Jan Mehlich. 2006.) CC BY-SA 3

Where are all the dead pigeons?

Jul 03 2018 | IN Wildlife | BY Steve Portugal

Fewer animals are as at-home in cities as the rock pigeon. Yet while they live among humans worldwide by the tens of millions, where do they go when they die?

Could your house hold carbon?

Jan 11 2018 | IN Technology | BY Kristi Mahy

Sustainable housing doesn't go far enough. It's time for net zero housing: where more carbon is sequestered than released in a finished building.

little clay figurines of people stand on a map

A Sense of Community

Jul 2016 | IN 42.1 Faith, Hope and Charities | BY Semini Pathberiya

Full article available online

Understanding our ecosystem of environmentalism through a journey of discovery attempting to answer: what is the Canadian environmental community?

Bigger Better Greenbelts

Sep 2015 | IN Careers 41.4 | BY Ella Haley

10 years later, Ontarians call for more protected areas across the province's most fertile lands

Infrastructure Power to the People

Sep 08 2015 | IN Planning | BY Stu Campana

Depave Paradise is proving we don’t have to wait for greener infrastructure

CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and Field House competition pool.

Going for the Green at the Pan Am Games

Jun 2015 | IN Fashion 41.3 | BY Dean Campbell

Full article available online

The Toronto 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games are building a legacy for the community.

Wicked

Sep 2009 | IN Your Town - Sustainability by Design 35.5 | BY Deborah Curran

Full article available online

If you feel like community sustainability is a moving target, that's because it is.

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