Sustainable Communities
Reports
Canadian local governments are using cross-sector social partnerships (CSSPs) to implement sustainable community plans.
Sustainable Prosperity has co-authored a report with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM).
A discussion paper on the various types of environmental pricing reform (EPR) options for the City of Hamilton.
CivicAction (Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance), in preparation for the Greater Toronto Summit 2011, has released this publication for the "Transportation and Infrastructure" Working Group.
Greening Greater Toronto and the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) have collaborated to produce this independent analysis, which builds on Greening Greater Toronto’s 2008 environmental report, and on TRCA’s watershed report cards.
The Sustainable Prosperity/Pembina report “Putting Transportation on Track in the GTHA” provides the most up-to-date, independently researched data directly comparing road and rail emissions (for both passenger and freight transportation).
Briefing paper on transportation and infrastructure written by Sustainable Prosperity for the Toronto City Summit Alliance.
The Smart Budget Toolkit identifies the various Environmental Pricing Reform (EPR) options available to municipalities that help reduce their impacts on the environment, while at the same time establishing new, diverse sources of revenue.
In this report, Sean Calvert identifies examples of ‘best practices’ for Environmental Pricing Reform (EPR) strategies in Canadian municipalities. These examples reflect where EPR strategies have been implemented and have effectively achieved some environmental goal.
The Smart Budget report has been prepared to help community leaders in both the public and private sector gain a practical understanding of the potential role for environmental pricing reform (EPR) in building sustainable communities.

