Practices for Sustainable Communities

Practices for Sustainable Communities presents: --A framework to identify and organize the practices -- the tools, strategies and activities -- that lead to greater sustainability; and --Examples of sustainable community development practices. This book makes the idea of sustainable development a practical reality. It is a Canadian view of the challenges of sustainability, with made in Canada case studies and solutions. Included with the publication is SCIP, the Sustainable Community Indicators Program, developed by CMHC and Environment Canada. SCIP helps communities measure their progress in building and living sustainably. Communities can create a locale vision of sustainability and measure and monitor their progress in making that vision a reality.