Author Archives: SSG

  • Living Solutions: Maurya’s Home Retrofit

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    In this first installment of our “Living Solutions” series, which focuses on how SSGers are taking climate action in their personal lives, we focus on our Senior Consultant Maurya Braun’s home retrofit journey.

  • Snapshot: A Year at SSG

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    Looking backward and forward With the start of the New Year we reflect on how we navigated the year past and what we have to look forward to in 2023. 2022 saw us creating new models, bringing on a host of new faces, and starting projects in new places (Chile! Argentina! Uruguay!). Two decades on,Continue…

  • Cooperatives are Key to Climate Action

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    You may have noticed that we sign off every SSG Newswire with “‘cooperatively yours”– but what does that mean and why? It’s a nod to how we’ve structured ourselves as a worker cooperative–owned and operated by our worker members—and how critical co-ops are to climate action. As organizations owned by the people they benefit, theContinue…

  • Q&A: Toronto’s Net Zero Program Manager on Why Communication is Key

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    The City of Toronto is targeting net-zero community emissions by 2040—a decade sooner than most major North American cities with climate action plans. We caught up with Sophie Plottel, who leads the team responsible for TransformTO, to discuss how the City plans to reverse the general trend of rising emissions and what other communities can…

  • How We Can Reduce Emissions by Changing How We Work 

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    A Government of Canada study shows that transforming the way employees use space and how they get to work can drive down workplace emissions.

  • Aging Buildings and the Climate Emergency: Opportunity Knocks!

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    A Canadian study shows that upgrading North America’s aging buildings offer a historic opportunity for climate action and renewal.

  • Webinar: Carbon Accounting Frameworks With the City of Edmonton

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    On October 22, Yuill Herbert and the City of Edmonton’s Abhishek Chakraborti teamed up to deliver a presentation on developing carbon accounting frameworks to manage GHG emissions at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Sustainable Communities Conference.

  • 5 Reasons Every City Needs a Carbon Budget

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    Developed in Oslo in 2016, the carbon budget (a.k.a climate budget) responds to the climate crisis in a manner similar to a city budget—by setting an overall budget for how much greenhouse gas the city can emit. Ever. It is a critical tool for bold climate action.