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LC3 2024
18 December, 2024Blog Posts

LC3 in 2024: Building a strong green economy that leaves no-one behind 

  As 2024 draws to a close, a few key themes have emerged from LC3’s work across the country— all aligning with the conditions needed for cities to successfully transition to a net-zero future by…

01 November, 2024Blog Posts

Tackling the housing crisis through a climate-economy lens 

November 2024 By Steve Winkelman, Executive Director, Ottawa Climate Action Fund  The Ottawa Climate Action Fund (OCAF) convened about 80 business and community leaders October 9 for the Ottawa Climate-Economy Opportunities Summit, a day-long multi-solving…

ENBIX Launch
25 June, 2024Blog Posts

Alberta gains a new buildings knowledge exchange centre

June 2024 By Mike Mellross, VP, Alberta Ecotrust Foundation A new idea is spreading across the nation, finding fertile ground in the construction industry, government and LC3 Centres, reinforcing the idea that healthy networks help…

27 May, 2024Blog Posts

Powerful online tool simplifies municipal EV purchase decisions

Learn how the Greater Montréal Climate Fund supported the development of an online simulator tool for municipal EV fleet conversions.

14 December, 2023Blog Posts

Integrating equity and net-zero goals

December 2023
This year, LC3 launched an equity metric to evaluate how equity is being integrated into the Network’s new grants, programs and direct investments. This blog post highlights our guiding principles, information on the equity metric, examples of local equitable climate action, reflections on urgency and more.

19 October, 2023Blog Posts

Making electric vehicle (EV) charging accessible to multi-family buildings

October 2023
EV home charging offers many benefits, but many multi-family building residents do not have access to it. LC3 Centre The Atmospheric Fund (TAF) is tackling the issue from various angles, including an EV Station Fund in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Read the full story today.

16 August, 2023Blog Posts

Deep retrofit training and capacity building for African Nova Scotians

August 2023
HCi3 provided funding to a unique community partnership. This pilot project by O.N.E. Community Economic Development Society and The ReCover Initiative takes aim at two intersecting challenges: a systemic employment gap facing the African Nova Scotian community and the need to quickly scale up deep energy retrofits.

11 July, 2023Blog Posts

Can we speed up urban climate action through better collaboration?

July 2023
At the Montreal Climate Summit, collaboration was on our minds. But what climate solutions might be best suited to the collaborative approach? Here are five.

31 May, 2023Blog Posts

Harvesting home builder ingenuity to reduce embodied carbon emissions

June 2023
Metro Vancouver’s LC3 Centre, ZEIC, launched an innovative program that aims to reduce the embodied carbon in new home builds by 40%, coinciding with the City of Vancouver’s target to reduce embodied emissions by 40% by 2030. Learn how ZEIC and ZEBx are gathering expertese from collaborators and researchers to reduce embodied carbon emissions in BC.

LC3 Theory of Change
23 November, 2022Blog Posts

Explainer: LC3 Theory of Change

November 2022
LC3’s Theory of Change (ToC) illustrates the impact that the LC3 Network aims to achieve, the process through which we intend to work towards that impact, and the underlying assumptions. The ToC clarifies LC3’s unique role within a broader ecosystem of stakeholders, change agents, and the communities it serves, and identifies how these stakeholders have a role to play to achieve LC3’s vision for Canadian communities.

22 August, 2022Blog Posts

Scaling up climate action through multi-solving

September 2022
Enter the Multi-Solving Challenge Game. The idea of a game was born out of collaboration among The Atmospheric Fund, Low Carbon Cities Canada, and the Centre For Social Innovation, all of whom were interested in new approaches that could make hard-hitting low-carbon action more relevant to more people.

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