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Complete Streets Gap Analysis: Opportunities and Barriers in Ontario
April 25, 2012
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March 28, 2012
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Complete Streets Forum 2012: Videos, powerpoints and photos now available

If you couldn't attend the keynote presentations, want to fill in some blanks in your notes, or show your friends and colleagues what they missed, video clips from the Complete Streets Forum are now posted online. All of the powerpoint presentations are already available to view here.

Toronto Board of Health Walking and Cycling report adopted

The Toronto Board of Health recently studied the health benefits and risks of active transportation. In the report, Road to Health: Improving Walking and Cycling in Toronto, the Board of Health demonstrates that the physical activity associated with active transportation provides important health benefits, and leads to significant savings in health care costs.

Complete Streets Forum: Accelerating the implementation of Complete Streets across Canada

For immediate release (April 20, 2012) - On April 23, 2012, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. the Toronto Centre for Active Transportation (TCAT), a project of the Clean Air Partnership, is hosting its annual active transportation policy conference. The conference will be held at Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview Avenue.

This is TCAT’s fifth and largest active transportation conference, with 225 registrants. Due to overwhelming demand, the Forum sold out three weeks before the event with a broader spectrum of participants than ever before.

Community Adaptation Initiative Case Studies & Videos

The Community Adaptation Initiative (CAI) is now available! CAP has developed 5 case studies and 5 short videos on climate change adaptation actions in Ontario communities. These resources, along with workshop proceedings from our technical workshops can be found on the CAI website.

CAP’s Social Media Marketing

Clean Air Partnership (CAP) will be launching our first blog on March 23rd, 2012. The blog will provide a one stop shop highlighting municipal clean air and climate change actions happening across the GTHA providing a picture of what a greener, more livable and resilient region would look like.

Visit us at: http://cleanairpartnership.wordpress.com or follow us on Twitter: @CleanAirGTA and/or tell us that you like us on Facebook.

Cities and Climate Change: Responding to an Urgent Agenda Volume 2

Eva Ligeti, Executive Director of the Clean Air Partnership (CAP) and other CAP staff contributed to this publication.

NEW!! Climate Change Adaptation Case Studies

In 2011, Clean Air Partnership (CAP) delivered adaptation training workshops to staff and political representatives from a broad range of Ontario municipalities as part of the Ontario Regional Adaptation Collaborative. Through these workshops, and our other work on local climate change adaptation, we have connected with municipal representatives across Ontario and identified a number of key recurring gaps relating to climate change adaptation in Ontario municipalities:

Toronto forges WeatherWise Partnership

The WeatherWise Partnership: Toronto region's action group for extreme weather resilience

Formed in 2011, the WeatherWise Partnership is a group of more than 50 public, private and not-for-profit organizations from across the Toronto region that have begun working together to better protect the region's residents, organizations, infrastructure, and environment from extreme weather.

eNews - Current Issue

What's in the air? March 2012 | eNewsletter

CAP's Mission Statement

At CAP, we believe we can make cities greener, healthier places.

To do that, we work with Canadians, decision-makers and businesses to make the environment a top priority. We focus on strategies that will get results, which for CAP means influencing decision-making in the interests of liveable cities.

How we do this:

We tackle the most critical environmental and health issues of the day: clean air and climate change.