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Learn how to help the environment and reduce your rbon footprint with key priority programs in Durham Region, such as the Durham Greener Homes Program, nada Greener Homes Grant, and driving an electric vehicle!
Just Green Cities is a research project addresses a core challenge nadians face in implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and addressing the climate crisis, focusing on municipal infrastructure renewal. The research focused on three key areas: net-zero housing, fleet electrifition and stormwater management.
The fourth in the webinar series 'Better Understand your Energy Consumption and What is Driving your Energy Use' presented why submetering tenant spaces is a priority for both tenants and landlords. View Webinar 4 PDF.
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On April 28, 2022, Durham Region officially launched the Durham Greener Homes, an initiative inspired by Durham Region's Community Energy Plan to help make energy-efficient, low-rbon homes more accessible to Durham residents. Durham Region partnered with Windfall Centre to deliver the new home energy retrofit program. Read More.
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The first in the webinar series "A Roadmap to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction - Benefits for Your Business" delved into the influences and trends impacting businesses. The speakers gave insights into how commercial building tenants n collaborate with landlords to achieve a low rbon workplace, modernize lease arrangements, energy-efficient best practices and other important topics. PDF. Upcoming Webinars
Windfall Ecology Centre, Partners for Action and Possibilian Ventures partnered in early 2021 to explore and research three municipal infrastructure issues and their relevance to the SDGs, with focus on fleet electrifition, stormwater management, and net-zero buildings. The extensive research produced the Just Green Cities
Discussion Paper which will be launched on Friday, March 4, 2022 at 1:00 PM EST. Read More
On Tuesday, February 15, 2022, Vaughan Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua at Council meeting, announced Vaughan's Award won at the ClimateWise 2021 Achievement Award. He said: I am pleased to announce the City of Vaughan has received the Mayor's Energy Challenge Advote Award from the ClimateWise Business Network for our dedited support of the Provincial Energy and Water Reporting and Benchmarking initiative. More
Durham Region Officially Launches Durham Greener Homes, Partners with Windfall Centre
On Thursday, April 28, 2022, Durham Region unveiled the Durham Greener Homes at a launch event at Durham College, Whitby mpus. Durham Greener Homes is a home retrofit service that will empower Durham Region residents to undertake home energy renovations. Durham Region has partnered with Windfall Ecology Centre to deliver the new home energy program to help Durham residents achieve energy-efficient homes as part of the Region's Community Energy Plan- a strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The Durham Greener Homes Program offers homeowners a home energy retrofit service that offers financing and sh-back rebates for home energy upgrade projects and a home energy coach to give expert advice to residents in the home retrofit journey. The Durham Greener Homes Program will target single-family homes built between 1970 and 2000 (representing 46 percent of single-family homes in the Durham region) beuse these are understood to have high energy-saving potential.
Windfall Ecology Centre's Founder and Executive Director, Brent Kopperson, who spoke about Durham Greener Homes, said, Windfall Ecology Centre has been helping Durham residents retrofit their homes for over 20 years. We are proud to combine all we have learned in that time to Durham Greener Homes, a best-in-class home retrofit facilitation service designed to ease renovation anxiety and help homeowners get the most from their energy efficiency investments.
At the launch event, a $3.4 million boost was announced to help finance the Durham Greener Homes Project to help more residents achieve energy-efficient homes and create a cleaner, low-rbon environment in Durham Region. The financing is offered through the Green Municipal Fund and delivered by the Federation of nadian Municipalities (FCM), and funded by the Government of nada.
Durham Greener Homes will support energy-efficiency upgrades such as high-efficiency heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment, thermal envelope upgrades, lighting upgrades and high-efficiency appliances. Additional eligible measures will include heat pump installation, renewable energy and energy storage systems, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, water conservation measures and indoor air quality measures.
Are you a resident of Durham starting your home retrofit journey? Visit durhamgreenerhomes. to learn more about the Durham Greener Homes program
More on the launch of Durham Greener Homes on Natural Resources nada, Yahoo News, insauga.com
Windfall Ecology Centre, Partners for Action and Possibilian Ventures are launching the Just Green Cities
Discussion Paper on March 4, 2022, at 1:00 PM EST. Just Green Cities
is a product of extensive research into the challenges of moving from big climate action ambition at the national level to operationalizing change at the municipal level.
Municipal infrastructure renewal has been one of the core underexplored challenges nadians face in addressing climate crises. Consequently, Windfall Ecology Centre, Partners for Action and Possibilian Ventures partnered in early 2021 to explore three municipal infrastructure issues and their relevance to the SDGs. The areas of focus are:
The Just Green Cities Discussion Paper seeks to create a common framework and language for integrating equity-driven decision-making into municipal infrastructure renewal to respond to the climate crisis. In this launch session, we'll present the Executive Summary with key insights on fleet electrifition, stormwater management and net-zero buildings and discuss how we n continue to create a broader, inclusive conversation.
Join us in imagining a just, green future for our communities at the free launch event on Friday, March 4, 2022 at 1:00 PM EST.
On September 24 at Sheppard's Bush in Aurora, in celebration of nada's and Ontario's 150th birthday, Windfall Ecology Centre hosted the Windfall Harvest Festival... A Celebration of Diversity: Food, Land and People. The festival featured First Nations dance and drumming, pioneer life reenactments, celebrity chefs, food sampling, nature walks, kids Nature Play and many more family activities.
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