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Calgary and North Vancouver recognized in award |
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Monday, 10 May 2010 10:08 |
 Two of our member cities (Calgary and North Vancouver) have been recognized in a prestigious award won by the Design Centre for Sustainability at UBC. Both cities worked with the Design Centre, collaborating on research around quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from land use and transportation patterns. The research was entitled ‘Getting to Minus 80: Defining the Contribution of Urban Form to Achieving Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Targets’. Pat Gordon, our PLUS Network Senior Program Officer, led the work when she was with the City of Calgary. Pat said, ‘Working with the researchers at the Design Centre at UBC was very useful for us. They supplied considerable academic rigor to our city-wide planning work. This award is well deserved and they are to be congratulated!”
Two of our member cities (Calgary and North Vancouver) have been recognized in a prestigious award won by the Design Centre for Sustainability at UBC. Both cities worked with the Design Centre, collaborating on research around quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from land use and transportation patterns. The research was entitled ‘Getting to Minus 80: Defining the Contribution of Urban Form to Achieving Greenhousee Gas Emission Reduction Targets’. Pat Gordon, our PLUS Network Senior Program Officer, led the work when she was with the City of Calgary. Pat said, ‘Working with the researchers at the Design Centre at UBC was very useful for us. They supplied considerable academic rigor to our city-wide planning work. This award is well deserved and they are to be congratulated!” |
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Colima wins National Prize |
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Thursday, 06 May 2010 09:56 |
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On Friday, April 23rd, Colima’s Institute for Planning for the Municipality of Colima received the Special National Prize for Urban Transportation and Mobility after presenting their most recent initiatives at an international forum. The honorable mention was focused on their project “Contributions from a Small City on Transportation and Mobility in Mexico: A Case Study of the Urban Metropolitan Zone of Colima”.
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Report on the Sustainable Cities : PLUS Network Workshop on Implementation |
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Wednesday, 17 February 2010 13:22 |
Ottawa, February 9th 2010
 A group of city practitioners from the PLUS Network met in Ottawa Canada to launch a dialogue on the theme of implementation – the theme of the PLUS Network’s 2010 Conference which will be held in Ottawa in September 2010. While many cities are moving from planning to implementation, there are still many members of the Network that are undertaking implementation without having undergone a comprehensive planning exercise.
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Welcome to the PLUS Network's newest member - the Town of Olds, Alberta, Canada! |
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 12:19 |
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 Demonstrating the same initiative that recently made the Town of Olds Alberta's first officially-designated Fair Trade Community, Olds was also the first to follow through with the guidelines of the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association for integrated sustainability planning. Now, as a result of that initiative, Olds has become the newest member of the Sustainable Cities PLUS (Partners for Long-term Urban Sustainability) Network based in Vancouver.
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PLUS Network Member City wins big in the sustainability stakes! |
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 12:08 |
 PLUS Network member The City of Montpelier, Vermont received a welcomed announcement last week of $8 million (US) to fund a new combined heat and power district energy system that will run on locally sourced wood chips. Gwendolyn Hallsmith, Director of the city’s Department of Planning and Community Development said, “It's a great day for Montpelier. We're well on our way to implementing the dream of enVision Montpelier and becoming this country's first sustainable state capital. This is the largest and most competitive grant I've ever written and it was done with the input of many people and organizations. Only five awards were made nationwide.” |
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Introducing the YES Network (Youth Engagement for Sustainability) |
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Monday, 11 January 2010 10:06 |
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 The YES Network (Youth Engagement for Sustainability) is an initiative from The Co-operators and Sustainable Cities that aims to engage youth to become active contributors to making their homes, schools and communities better and more sustainable places to live, work and play.
The YES Network is a network of teachers, schools, students and community organizations working together to support youth led sustainability action projects in Regina and surrounding area.
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