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If the 34 million American households of color resided in a single state, their household electricity demand would exceed that of all the residential, commercial, and industrial users in California, the…
The Making Buildings Work for Your Community guide provides an introduction to the design process and practical advice on how to ensure that your building can be the best possible…
Creative Placemaking explores the livability and economic development outcomes of creative placemaking, whereby cross-sector partners strategically shape the physical and social character of locales around arts and cultural activities. The…
“The populations that are marginalized suffer from lack of political power, on one hand, and are quite invisible to the general population, on the other,” she explains. “So their struggles and…
“One example [of the Social Economy in Atlantic Canada] is the creation of a new public transit service in the Port Hawkesbury Strait area of Nova Scotia – the Strait…
“Before I left the Philippines, we were able to train almost four hundred community leaders across the country. Some have now become mayors and elected officials in different provinces and…
Municipalia is a fictitious, but typical, New Brunswick community which has an interest in developing a community wind project to supplement it’s annual cash flow. The Province of New Brunswick has…
“There needs to be education on both sides. On the non-profit side: about how to engage with forprofits, but also on the other side around using private sector innovations to leverage…
Community-owned renewable energy facilities create local jobs and revenue with less environmental impacts than conventional energy options. The majority of Alberta’s electricity comes from large coal plants that harm both…
This is one of 2 papers prepared for the Canadian CED Network which take a closer look at the policy frameworks to support CED and the Social Economy which exist…
The second paper builds on this literature review by focusing on the public policy instruments used to support the Social Economy in different jurisdictions. Specific policy instruments are identified that…
