Program that helps lower-income homeowners reduce their energy bills is now available in Edmonton

Three climate funds invest in Kite Mobility to boost electric ridesharing in Canadian apartments and condos

A story from our first Home Upgrades Program participant

Local groups leading climate solutions in Calgary and Edmonton secure funding to advance new approaches

New partnership delivers energy retrofits to Alberta’s multi-unit residential building owners

New Home Upgrades Program now offered in Calgary to help homeowners struggling with their energy bills

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Environmental groups and Indigenous Nations across Alberta set to receive up to $500K in local grants.

The City of Edmonton, with support from Alberta Ecotrust, are partnering to deliver research grants to help advance knowledge about how Edmonton can become an energy sustainable and climate resilient city.

Cities IPCC Legacy Research Grant | Alberta Ecotrust

We know that Calgary and Edmonton need support to effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That is why we offer funding to a variety of organizations for local low-carbon solutions.

Climate Innovation Fund Grant Program | Alberta Ecotrust Foundation

See your home’s digital energy score to understand how energy efficient a property is. This program is under development. More details will be provided in 2022.

Digital Residential Energy Score | Alberta Ecotrust Foundation

The City of Edmonton, with support from Alberta Ecotrust, are partnering to deliver grants to  invest in citizen-led urban solutions to climate change. This grant is no longer available.

EcoCity Edmonton Grant | Alberta Ecotrust

Get funding for projects that are working on Alberta’s most pressing environmental issues.

Environmental Grant Programs | Alberta Ecotrust Foundation

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Maureen’s passion and commitment to giving back and making an impact in her community stemmed from growing up in rural eastern Nigeria with parents that had similar beliefs.  

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Repair Exchange Calgary is a project that will pilot city-wide Repair Exchanges to create a wide-reaching and sustainable program in Calgary. Funded by the City of Calgary, it is an initiative which aims to improve knowledge and skills around repairing personal and household items, while building community capacity for moving towards a circular economy. The Environmental Impact Grant will support activities to make Repair Exchange Calgary feasible, sustainable, and self-sufficient into the future.

Arusha Centre

 From summer 2023 to 2024, Newo Global Energy will work in relationship with Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation to employ and support Nation members in the development of several solar and energy efficiency projects. By developing strong interpersonal relationships alongside attention to mind, body, spirit, and emotion, community members will be empowered to retain, within the Nation, the economic and employment benefits derived from these projects. Held within a healthy and strong community, climate transition will also become a conduit for connection to traditional knowledge, language, and healing. "The times are urgent. Let us slow down" - Bayo Akomolafe

Newo

Build: Relationships, Retrofits, Reconciliation

Climate Caucus, in collaboration with the Recycling Council of Alberta, the Town of Rocky Mountain House, Community Energy Association Alberta, and Alberta Municipalities will develop a toolkit of Circular Economy (CE) initiatives for local governments. Resources will include a detailed menu with best practices, case studies, key contacts, sample bylaws, and implementation steps. We will provide  workshops for elected officials and municipal staff. This toolkit will help local leaders implement CE initiatives effectively with a goal to build momentum among elected leaders and provide resources and tools for staff implementation.  

Climate Caucus Council

Circular Economy Tools and Pilot for Local Governments in Small Communities

With the Enhancing capacity for riparian management within Indigenous communities to increase socio-ecological resilience project, Cows and Fish will improve riparian management in Indigenous communities by sharing their expertise with landowners, land managers, and conservation staff. This will involve training on riparian health assessment, restoration, and management to increase knowledge and skills. The goal is to expand the impact of the project by having trained individuals share their expertise with their communities. The funding will support increased training demands from Indigenous environment and lands departments. Cows and Fish will tailor the training to the needs of each community, invest more time in relationship building to co-develop and deliver sessions, and incorporate diverse approaches to enable sharing of expertise and ways of knowing.

Cows and Fish

 Enhancing Capacity for Riparian Management Within Indigenous Communities to Increase Socio-ecological Resilience

Beaver Dam Analogues (BDAs) are a nature-based solution for offsetting climate change impacts including drought and flood. They mimic beaver dams and act like speed bumps, slowing down water movement. Miistakis’ project will measure groundwater levels alongside installed BDAs to demonstrate measurable impacts to groundwater storage. Miistakis will partner with the Blood Tribe Land Management, Cows and Fish and Trout Unlimited Canada to monitor the impacts of BDAs in the foothills of Southern Alberta. Well installation and monitoring will begin with pre-BDA assessment in summer/fall of 2023 with analysis following 2 years of post BDA installation monitoring. 

Miistakis Institute for the Rockies

How Well Do We Know Beavers: Groundwater Monitoring of Beaver Dam Analogues as a Nature-based Solution

Through partnership between Athabasca Watershed Council (AWC), Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF), Alberta Environment and Protected Areas (EPA), and local Indigenous and community groups, this initiative will restore freshwater connectivity in the Berland-Wildhay watershed. Guided by a conservation planning framework, partners will use spatial modeling and field assessments to quantify connectivity status of the watershed for target fish species, set goals to improve connectivity, prioritize barriers for assessment, and implement strategies and actions to remove or rehabilitate them. Our goal is to reduce habitat fragmentation and increase communities’ access to tools to help them contribute to improving freshwater connectivity in Alberta.

Watershed Connectivity Planning in the Berland-Wildhay

Siksika Housing has partnered with Form Innovations, a Cochrane-based housing CleanTech startup company which specializes in a new innovative energy efficient foundation system called Polarblock, to build two new energy efficient homes at Siksika Nation using the Polarblock system.  Siksika Nation members are not immune to the impacts of higher utility costs, and increased GHG emissions that result from inefficient homes.  These two new homes will help advance energy efficient housing at Siksika Nation to ensure future generations live in comfortable, warm, and energy efficient homes that will last for generations. 

Siksika Housing

Building Capacity for Community Aquatic Biomonitoring on Alberta’s Eastern Slopes is an ambitious grassroots project embarking on developing the very first CABIN reference model for Alberta’s Eastern Slopes - an invaluable aquatic monitoring tool whose benefits will ripple out into the community and be useful to First Nations and community biomonitoring groups, academic researchers, and all levels of government. By developing a robust model and building capacity for biomonitoring in local First Nations communities and watershed stewardship groups, this multi-year initiative will reduce economic barriers, increase social capital, and improve aquatic biomonitoring across the headwaters of Alberta.  

Oldman Watershed Council

Building Capacity for Community Aquatic Biomonitoring on Alberta's Eastern Slopes

Kainais’ skahkoyii, home to the Blackfoot people, includes over 38,000 acres of native grasslands, an important cultural resource, and significant tract of globally endangered temperate grasslands. These lands have been stewarded by the Blackfoot for millennia supporting spiritual and cultural practices. Grasslands on the reserve are under threat from multiple pressures, but enhanced management tools can help steward and safeguard these lands. Development of an invasive plant monitoring framework, and a range plant community guide will support land use decisions. These initiatives work in harmony to support holistic management of culturally significant native grasses and medicines on the Blood Reserve. 

Blood Tribe Land Management

Kainais’ skahkoyii range guide and invasive monitoring program

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