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Canada Launches Sustainable Communities Initiative

June 20, 2009 // Published as a news service by IHS

  
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The government of Canada launched Equilibrium Communities Initiative, an initiative designed to help improve community planning and develop sustainable communities.

The $4.2 million Equilibrium Communities Initiative is touted as providing financial, technical and promotional assistance to sustainable community projects chosen through a national competition.

The initiative is being led and funded equally by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). A call for project submissions will be issued this summer.

NRCan and CMHC are looking for designs from companies that will showcase neighborhoods that are more sustainable and energy efficient than most existing communities, according to NRCan.

Winning designs will show improvements that can be achieved in communities in the areas of energy use, water efficiency, environmental protection, land-use planning, clean energy transportation and affordable housing.

Source: Natural Resources Canada (NRCan).


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