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  • How Two American Cities Integrated Federal Funding Into Their Climate Action Plans

    Emi Do

    SSG collaborated with Lakewood, Ohio and Ames, Iowa to identify the role of specific federal funds through detailed financial modeling. They are, to our knowledge, the first municipalities to account for federal funding from the Infrastructure Bill and Inflation Reduction Act in their climate action plans—setting them up to save hundreds of millions of dollars by…

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    Land-use Planning is Climate Planning

    Jeremy Murphy

    City planners and developers across Canada make choices that create low-carbon or high-carbon neighbourhoods every day. Choosing the historically popular low-density approach locks in carbon emissions for decades. In the face of the climate crisis, this choice is simple: low-carbon developments are the only viable option. 

  • Webinar: Advancing Climate Action with Federal Funding

    SSG

    In this webinar, experts from C40 Cities and climate planning consultancy SSG provide guidance on applying for federal grants. They also explain how to design an effective climate action plan to make you competitive for a slice of the $4.6-billion set aside for implementing climate actions through the CPRG program and the many other federal…

  • Climate Action Planning Quickstart Guide for States & Metro Regions

    SSG

    SSG has published a Climate Action Planning Quickstart Guide to demystify the CPRG and provide guidance to US communities on how to develop a climate action plan.

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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…