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    5 Tips for Catalyzing Climate Action in US Communities with CPRG Grants

    SSG

    State and municipal governments across the US are developing work plans and budgets to secure a slice of the $250 million allocated by the Inflation Reduction Act for climate action planning. We share five best practices from our time developing climate action plans with over 100 communities.

  • Living Solutions: Maurya’s Home Retrofit

    SSG

    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.

  • SSG Featured in New Book: Cooperatives at Work

    Emi Do

    Cooperatives at Work presents a range of success stories in employee ownership and worker cooperative enterprise, showcasing how such firms can embody important and highly contested ideals of democracy, equity, and social transformation. Co-authored by member Emi Do, the book features SSG as one of the standout examples for how a cooperative can lead the…

  • Snapshot: A Year at SSG

    SSG

    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

    SSG

    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…

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    What Happens Now That Edmonton Didn’t Meet its Carbon Budget?

    Emi Do

    On November 3, 2022, the City of Edmonton released the first municipal carbon budget report in Canada. The report indicated that Edmonton is set to blow past its carbon budget of 176 million tonnes by 2037 and fall short of its target to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.  Though this news is alarming, it’s promisingContinue…

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    ​Q&A: Whitby Mayor’s On Kickstarting Climate Action

    Alia Dharssi

    Mayor Don Mitchell on Canada’s first data-driven municipal climate adaptation plan and how he went from debunking climate action to becoming a climate action champion.

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

    SSG

    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…

  • SSG, Toronto, and Edmonton Win APA Awards For Climate Action Work

    Alia Dharssi

    On May 2, SSG’s cutting-edge climate planning work was recognized with two awards from the American Planning Association Sustainable Communities Division!

  • What It Means to Plan for Net-Zero 

    Emi Do

    Governments and business can learn from Canada’s approach to climate action and reducing greenhouse gas emissions related to its real estate portfolio and emissions.