United States EPA Confirms Milwaukee as a Leader on Green Infrastructure

Green infrastructure is a fiscally responsible and environmentally sustainable answer to today’s water challenges. It manages rainwater by treating it like a resource – and it works with nature, rather than against it.
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UK engineers warn that neglected infrastructure is jeopardising green goals

The report examined the current state of key infrastructure set against the context of the urgent need to shift towards a low carbon economy and the reality of government spending constraints.
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Town of Gibsons receives 2009 Energy and Climate Action Award for Upper Gibsons Geo-exchange District Energy Utility

This system is the first of its kind in North America

Owned and operated by the municipality, the utility will provide renewable earth energy heating to all new buildings in Upper Gibsons, reducing GHG emissions from heating and hot water by an astonishing 96%
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Langley’s Greenhouse Gas Strategy

Township has achieved the first three of five milestones

When the Township of Langley hosted the second event in "Showcasing Green Infrastructure Innovation in Metro Vancouver: The 2007 Series", this provided a timely opportunity to report out on the Township's recently adopted a Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan.
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Climate Change Adaptation: Curbing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Township of Langley

Corporate Plan featured in "Showcasing Innovaton in Greater Vancouve Series"

In 2006, the Township adopted a Corporate Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan, making it one of the first municipalities in the Metro Vancouver region to do so. The Township hopes to assume a leadership role within the Partners for Climate Protection Program.
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