Back at the start of this term of council, one of the first things that I asked for was a Sustainability Officer who could start us down the path of getting a sustainability plan. Council disagreed, and suggested instead that we start with a plan and see if we need an officer. It took allContinue reading “The Integrated Community Sustainability Plan”
Tag Archives: Climate Change
Adaptation 2026 Conference
This week I had the privilege of attending the Adaptation 2026 conference in Toronto, joining people from across Canada (and one lovely, thoughtful American) to explore ways to make municipalities more adaptable to our changing climate. As always, by the end of the conference I had (and currently have) a head that feels like it’sContinue reading “Adaptation 2026 Conference”
Thinking Big in a Small town
We have a tendency to downplay small towns. The tropes are maybe just true enough to persist: small town folks, the story goes, are sheltered from the big wide world; nothing ever happens in a small town, and young people need to escape to experience the world; and even in reverse, there are a thousandContinue reading “Thinking Big in a Small town”