If home retrofit grants aren’t sufficient to transform a trickle of early-adopter retrofitters into a mass movement, what is?
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Built Environment
Guy Dauncey’s Big Solutions: Solving Canada’s housing crisis will take time. So, what can governments do to lessen the burden for those suffering now?
About four-fifths of the Dutch port is below sea level, but a blue-green roofing grid and other smart city technology might help keep Rotterdam flood proof
Community energy companies are drawing on a wide range of low-carbon technologies to heat (and cool) entire neighbourhoods across North America
The province’s proposed building code is a step backward from net-zero
The city has pushed more landlords to decarbonize their buildings, but nearly half are still scoring Ds and Fs in its letter grading system
Canada’s building emissions are at an all-time high. So how do we close the ‘say–do’ gap?
Experts tout the benefits of transforming office buildings from a giant source of carbon into a large carbon sink
From microgrids to smarter land-use planning rules, here are the trends to watch