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  • Climate Leadership Program

    Climate change is the overarching crisis of our time, providing both challenges and opportunities for us to tackle. The Climate Leadership Program (CLP) will build the capacity of participants to…

  • Guidelines for Energy Management

    Natural Resources Canada’s (NRCan) ENERGY STAR Guidelines for Energy Management provide a proven strategy for creating an energy management program focused on continuous improvement of energy performance. The process builds…

  • Building Adaptive and Resilient Communities – BARC Program

    Building Adaptive & Resilient Communities (BARC) is a national program focused on resilience and adaptation! BARC offers a comprehensive way to respond to the impacts of climate change, develop and…

  • Reliable, Affordable: The Economic Case for Scaling up Clean Energy Portfolios

    A study comparing clean energy portfolios and natural gas for electricity generation.

  • New Energy Economy: Municipalities in Transition Stories

    While provincial and federal governments often make wide-ranging policies on carbon pollution, energy efficiency and renewable energy, it is at the municipal level where these changes take hold and affect…

  • Inside Education Environmental Education for the Classroom

    No-cost environmental and natural resource learning resources are curriculum-connected and classroom-ready, complete with fun activities and exercises that support different learning styles and teaching situations. 

  • People for Energy and Environmental Literacy Lesson Plans

    PEEL Lessons are phased to provide appropriate opportunities for students to absorb, question, and apply the information they are learning. Lesson plans are divided into Basic / Intermediate / Advanced…

  • Alberta Community Solar Guide

    There is a lot to consider when comprehensively planning a community solar project. This guide is for Albertans who want to, and renewable energy developers who can use it as an awareness tool when working with communities to develop such projects.

  • Working with Nature Toolkit

    Making conservation research accessible to communities and decision makers is complex. To focus their work effectively, Miistakis identified six research areas where their skills and expertise could have the greatest…

  • System Advisor Model

    The System Advisor Model (SAM) is a free techno-economic software model that facilitates decision-making for people in the renewable energy industry.

  • RETScreen

    RETScreen is a Clean Energy Management Software system for energy efficiency, renewable energy and cogeneration project feasibility analysis as well as ongoing energy performance analysis.