This impact story was adapted from an article entitled “How can you love a lake?” by Monica Seidel on page 10 of the Water Canada magazine issue for July/August 2024. It has been shortened, and also contains additions from Watersheds Canada staff about their collaborative relationship with Canadian Wildlife Federation. Header photo © Love Your […]
How Land Trusts Are Linked to Watershed Health and Security Watersheds serve as the foundation of vibrant ecosystems, providing clean drinking water, supporting agriculture, and nurturing diverse wildlife. Unfortunately, these precious resources are increasingly threatened by development, deforestation, and climate change. Land trusts emerge as significant allies in safeguarding these resources by conserving the landscapes
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Have you heard how Toronto’s industrial waterfront is being transformed? Scaling UP! This project scales up tried-and-true naturalization and sustainable building techniques, including: Removing concrete & adding meanders for flood mitigation & improved fish habitat Digging 1,000 m of new river channel, then creating floodplain and 13 ha of new coastal wetland Naturalizing and planting
A Culture of Collaboration Upholds Toronto’s Don River Revitalization Read More »
Teams are where the magic happens at Our Living Waters! They are collaborative forums where OLW Network members convene to drive action on a shared water goal. Teams are where change feels possible in the Network… but change takes time. Here, we’ve designed a Green Infrastructure Community of Practice timeline to visualize how this Team’s story
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Download this October 2022 framework to help practitioners advance equitable, abundant, and thriving green infrastructure in cities across Canada, by Green Communities Canada and a research team from the University of Toronto.
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How can cities across Canada advance equitable, abundant and thriving green infrastructure (GI)? That’s the challenge that OLW member, Green Communities Canada (GCC), has been working to address with their Living Cities Canada: Green For All project. The project emerged from the collaborative work of the Green Infrastructure Community of Practice, an OLW Team, and is now supported by
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Since the Our Living Waters Network first took form in 2016, membership has grown to 157, including 117 organizations and 40 individuals, with a Shared Measurement System of 24 impact measures to track progress on our ambitious goal of all waters in good health by 2030! Each year, members inform our Network priorities through the Annual Survey. This
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Take a look at this document resulting from the March 2022 Forum coordinated by Green Communities Canada and supported by the University of Toronto, the Green Infrastructure Ontario Coalition and other environmental organizations.
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Green infrastructure has been an Our Living Waters Network priority issue for the past several years. In response, the Our Living Waters 2030 Fund has provided ongoing funding to a team that works to advance local action on green infrastructure. Green infrastructure has been an Our Living Waters Network priority issue for the past several years. In
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Over 50 freshwater champions registered for our November 19, 2020 virtual gathering to discuss the topic of Funding Water Projects Across Canada. We had a great turnout! We gathered to find the answer to a thought-provoking question: Is there a desire from the freshwater community to collectively call on the federal government to better fund water projects right
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