Posts
- 2018 REFBC Land Awards – Municipal Natural Assets Initiative (November 5, 2018)
- A game-changing approach (March 20, 2018)
- A Tale of Two Natural Asset Trajectories (December 4, 2024)
- ‘Revolutionary Evolution’ Progressing Natural Asset Management in Selkirk, MB (May 29, 2024)
- Accounting for nature: meet the champions leading natural asset management in Rossland, BC (September 20, 2023)
- And then there were 11 (October 4, 2018)
- Annonce de Joanna Eyquem en tant que nouvelle présidente du conseil d’administration de l’Initiative des actifs naturels (October 4, 2024)
- Announcing Joanna Eyquem as Incoming Board Chair of the Natural Assets Initiative (October 4, 2024)
- Appel de manifestation d’intérêt (June 19, 2020)
- Both/And: Integrating Natural Asset Management into Federal Housing Supply Policymaking (June 19, 2024)
- Call for Expressions of Interest (December 21, 2022)
- Canada’s first watershed-scale municipal natural asset management initiative is now underway! (July 9, 2019)
- Capacity Building for Local Governments (March 17, 2022)
- Celebrating Indigenous Wins for People & Planet in 2023 (June 20, 2023)
- Coastal municipalities launch project to address rising sea levels (June 23, 2020)
- Coastal Resilience (June 2, 2021)
- Comox Lake Watershed Update (March 5, 2020)
- Embracing Natural Assets: A Pathway to Resilient Insurance Practices? (October 9, 2024)
- Engineers and the move towards municipal natural asset management (August 23, 2019)
- From Disaster to Resilience: Grand Forks’ Transformation Through Floodplain Naturalization (September 24, 2024)
- Funding opportunity (Request for EOIs): protecting species at risk through natural asset management (July 21, 2021)
- Greenbelt Foundation Announces Landmark Natural Asset Management Plan in Halton (May 5, 2020)
- Greenbelt Foundation Makes Pivotal Investment in Natural Asset Inventories (November 30, 2020)
- Grindstone Creek Update (August 16, 2021)
- Grindstone Creek Watershed (July 8, 2024)
- Hausser la barre : normes de gestion des actifs naturels au Canada (July 27, 2023)
- Hausser la barre : normes de gestion des actifs naturels au Canada (June 16, 2024)
- How do they do it? Green Analytics demos some of the science behind natural asset inventories (October 27, 2021)
- How Planners Can Build Better Communities with Nature (October 23, 2024)
- How to Include NAM in Asset Management Plans (April 23, 2024)
- Interactive Map Connects Nature-based Projects & Practitioners (September 16, 2022)
- Interview with Isabel Gordon, director of financial services, District of West Vancouver (September 20, 2018)
- Job Opportunity: Indigenous Relationships Advisor (September 11, 2024)
- Join NAI at the 2023 IPWEA Congress! (May 18, 2023)
- Land, Water & Natural Resources – Update on NAM and Reconciliation (April 21, 2023)
- Linking nature and infrastructure – a challenging dialogue (November 1, 2023)
- Local Alberta governments forging ahead in natural asset management (October 16, 2019)
- Lowering development cost charges through eco asset approach (August 16, 2018)
- Making nature visible in decision-making: solving Provincial Barriers to Natural Asset Infrastructure (February 10, 2023)
- Meet the world’s first-ever Natural Asset Technician! (March 11, 2021)
- MNAI Appoints 3 New Board Members (October 7, 2022)
- MNAI Grindstone Creek Project launches! (December 20, 2019)
- MNAI project to help 30+ communities reduce costs, adapt to climate change (December 16, 2020)
- MNAI September blog: update on Canada’s first watershed-scale initiative (October 1, 2019)
- Municipal Natural Asset Management 101 (November 6, 2018)
- Natural Asset Inventories Standard Now Out for Public Review (August 26, 2022)
- Natural Asset Management – Are we moving forward? (August 27, 2024)
- Natural Asset Management Challenge Dialogue (October 30, 2023)
- Natural asset management is proving its value in the field (July 12, 2018)
- Natural Asset Management Roadmap Program – Applications Now Open (October 24, 2023)
- Natural Asset Management Workshop Series (October 28, 2022)
- Natural Assets Underpin Asset Management Planning in Logy-Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove, Newfoundland (July 7, 2020)
- Nature: is it worth it? (May 27, 2021)
- News Release & Backgrounder: Nature helps communities manage flooding (February 24, 2020)
- News Release: NAI Legal Primer Sheds Light on Obligations, Powers of Local Governments to Protect Nature (February 21, 2023)
- News Release: New National Standard of Canada will help standardize natural asset inventories (February 15, 2022)
- Next Watershed Natural Assets Project Underway in Halifax (June 7, 2023)
- Nine Ontario Municipalities Part of National Cohort Undertaking Natural Asset Inventories and Building Climate Resilience (June 22, 2021)
- Northwest New Brunswick communities explore natural asset approach to manage flooding (May 22, 2020)
- Open Letter: Feedback on Canada’s National Adaptation Strategy (December 1, 2022)
- Opportunité: Conseil d’administration de l’IAN (November 15, 2024)
- Opportunity for a municipal natural assets project in a BC watershed: extended (September 20, 2018)
- Opportunity: NAI Board of Directors (November 15, 2024)
- Our Recommendations for Canada’s 2025 Budget (August 28, 2024)
- Pelham Greenbelt Project Reveals how Nature Provides Millions in Stormwater Management (December 10, 2024)
- Pilot to Protect Species at Risk & Reduce Flooding Through Natural Asset Management Takes Big Step Forward (June 9, 2020)
- Piloting Natural Asset Management: National Cohorts (August 6, 2024)
- Progress in the Prairies: Natural Asset Management in Saskatoon (June 28, 2023)
- Reconciling First Nations’ Worldviews and Perspectives with Natural Asset Management: Learnings from Manitoba (February 24, 2023)
- Reflections on nature-based solutions profiled at European Climate Change Adaptation conference in Lisbon (June 19, 2019)
- Register Now! Fall 2023 NAM Workshop Series (June 20, 2022)
- Register Now! Fall 2023 NAM Workshop Series (June 29, 2023)
- Resource to help navigate and implement O. Reg. 588/17 (January 18, 2020)
- Results from the First National Cohort: Decision-Maker Summary (July 26, 2018)
- Saanich Inventory Project Part of NAM Surge on Southern Vancouver Island (September 19, 2024)
- Scaling Up Investments in Watersheds (October 17, 2024)
- Setting the bar: Natural Asset Management Standards in Canada (July 27, 2023)
- Species at Risk and Natural Asset Management (August 1, 2024)
- Studies examine natural assets’ role in coastal risk and resilience (March 11, 2021)
- Summary document and roadmap: Advancing Municipal Natural Infrastructure Management workshop in Alberta. (November 28, 2019)
- The Coastal Assets pilot project with the Town of Gibsons, B.C., and Pointe-du-Chêne, N.B., is now complete (November 30, 2021)
- The Evolution of Natural Asset Management Monitoring (October 23, 2024)
- The Grindstone Creek project has been making excellent progress in the few months since it launched (December 8, 2020)
- The path to scale (February 18, 2022)
- The Price of Nature (August 22, 2024)
- Toward natural asset management in Kootenays (April 14, 2021)
- Town of Gibsons Completes Milestone Project in Aquifer 560 Watershed (September 16, 2024)
- Un nouveau produit d’assurance novateur, à vocation environnementale, pour aider à protéger les actifs naturels (October 16, 2020)
- We are the Natural Assets Initiative (April 24, 2023)
- Webinar – Do local governments have legal responsibility to nature? (January 10, 2023)
- Where are they now? Grand Forks (March 26, 2019)
- Where are they now? Oakville (March 19, 2019)
- Where are they now? Peel (April 13, 2019)
- Where are they now? West Van (April 13, 2019)
- Why do an inventory? LBMCOC councillor explains in this video (January 12, 2021)
- Worth Protecting: Grindstone Creek Watershed Provides $2 Billion in Stormwater Management Services (December 7, 2022)
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communities
- City of Abbotsford, BC (October 12, 2023)
- City of Charlottetown, PEI (May 15, 2024)
- City of Colwood, BC (July 6, 2023)
- City of Courtenay, BC (May 15, 2024)
- City of Edmonton, AB (August 11, 2023)
- City of Kelowna, BC (May 2, 2024)
- City of Mississauga, ON (May 15, 2024)
- City of Moncton, NB (May 15, 2024)
- City of Nanaimo, BC (May 17, 2024)
- City of New Westminster, BC (August 11, 2023)
- City of Orillia, ON (November 15, 2023)
- City of Oshawa, ON (May 15, 2024)
- City of Peterborough, ON (May 15, 2024)
- City of Prince George, BC (May 2, 2024)
- City of Saskatoon, SK (August 11, 2023)
- City of Surrey, BC (May 1, 2024)
- City of Vaughan, ON (August 11, 2023)
- City of West Kelowna, BC (May 2, 2024)
- City of Yellowknife, NWT (May 5, 2024)
- County of Markham, ON (October 12, 2023)
- District of Kent, BC (May 2, 2024)
- District of Saanich, BC (September 18, 2024)
- District of Sparwood, BC (May 15, 2024)
- District of West Vancouver, BC (May 16, 2024)
- Dufferin County, ON (August 11, 2023)
- Grand Forks, BC (March 1, 2021)
- Halifax Regional Municipality, NS (May 15, 2024)
- Municipality of the District of Lunenburg, NS (May 15, 2024)
- Niagara Region, ON (May 15, 2024)
- Northumberland County, ON (May 15, 2024)
- Port of Vancouver, BC (March 28, 2024)
- Region of Peel, ON (May 16, 2024)
- Regional District of Central Okanagan, BC (May 2, 2024)
- Regional District of Nanaimo, BC (August 11, 2023)
- Resort Municipality of Whistler, BC (May 2, 2024)
- Town of Florenceville-Bristol, NB (May 15, 2024)
- Town of Gibsons, BC (May 17, 2024)
- Town of Lincoln, ON (October 12, 2023)
- Town of Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove, NL (May 16, 2024)
- Town of Oakville, ON (May 15, 2024)
- Town of Pelham, ON (December 10, 2024)
- Town of Riverview, NB (June 2, 2024)
- Town of Sackville, NB (August 11, 2023)
- Town of Stratford, PEI (May 15, 2024)
- Township of Langley, BC (May 2, 2024)
- Village of Riverside-Albert, NB (May 15, 2024)
documents
- A Guidebook for Local Governments: Developing Levels of Service (LOS) for Natural Assets (June 20, 2022)
- Advancing Municipal Natural Asset Management (June 19, 2019)
- Advancing Municipal Natural Asset Management Through Collaborative Strategies for Private Lands (June 9, 2019)
- Advancing Municipal Natural Asset Management Through Financial Planning and Reporting (June 7, 2019)
- Advancing Municipal Natural Asset Management Through Professional Planning: Twelve Action Steps (June 12, 2019)
- British Columbia’s Engineers and Geoscientists Professional Guidelines (July 12, 2021)
- Case Study: Valuation of the Stormwater Management Services in Whitetower Park Ponds (July 13, 2016)
- Cohort 2 – National Project Overview (February 22, 2020)
- Document d’orientation à l’intention des municipalités (August 19, 2021)
- From Source to Sea: Aquifer 560 Watershed Natural Asset Management Project (September 14, 2024)
- Funding for Municipal Natural Asset Management (April 26, 2019)
- Gestion des actifs naturels dans le Bassin versant de Grindstone Creek (September 19, 2022)
- Getting Nature on the Balance Sheet (October 7, 2022)
- Grindstone Creek Watershed Natural Assets Management Project (December 15, 2022)
- Grindstone Creek Watershed Natural Assets Management Project – Summary (September 5, 2022)
- Guidance Document for Municipalities (July 23, 2021)
- Guide Juridique : La gestion des actifs naturels par les administrations locales au canada (June 19, 2024)
- Infrastructure naturelle : Comment inclure les actifs naturels dans les plans de gestion des actifs (September 4, 2024)
- Integrating Species at Risk Considerations Into Natural Asset Management (March 5, 2021)
- Investing in Watersheds: Towards Scalable, Outcomes-based Financing for Natural Assets (July 3, 2024)
- Legal Primer – Natural Asset Management by Local Governments in Canada (February 8, 2023)
- Managing Natural Assets to Increase Coastal Resilience – Chêne (June 7, 2021)
- Managing Natural Assets to Increase Coastal Resilience – Gibsons (June 7, 2021)
- Natural Asset Infrastructure in BC: Barriers and Opportunities (May 31, 2024)
- Natural asset management – are we moving forward? (September 13, 2021)
- Natural Asset Management Challenge Dialogue (March 10, 2024)
- Natural Asset Management Challenge Dialogue – Progress Report (March 10, 2024)
- Natural Asset Management Challenge Dialogue – Summary (March 10, 2024)
- Natural Infrastructure for Planners Workshop Report: Atlantic Planners Institute Conference 2022 (February 28, 2023)
- Natural Infrastructure for Planners Workshop Report: Atlantic Planners Institute Conference 2022 (February 28, 2023)
- Natural Asset Management (July 9, 2024)
- Natural Asset Management for Local Governments (August 9, 2023)
- Nature is Infrastructure: How to Include Natural Assets in Asset Management Plans (April 22, 2024)
- now what? (April 8, 2022)
- Planning with nature in the prairies Guide to integrating natural asset management in local government plans (May 16, 2024)
- Preparing Northwest New Brunswick Communities (April 28, 2020)
- Professional Practice Guidelines – Local Government Asset Management (July 29, 2021)
- Results From the First National Cohort – Decision-Maker Summary (July 9, 2018)
- The Town of Gibsons’ Experience in Financial Planning and Reporting (September 13, 2017)
- Towards a Collaborative Strategy for Municipal Natural Asset Management: Private Lands (February 9, 2018)
- Towards an Eco-Asset Strategy in the Town of Gibsons (March 1, 2021)
team_members
- Amy Taylor (August 2, 2023)
- Bailey Church (August 11, 2023)
- Chris Chen (August 3, 2023)
- Donna Chiarelli (August 2, 2023)
- Ellery Lamm (August 9, 2023)
- Emanuel Machado (August 9, 2023)
- Emily Sharma (August 9, 2023)
- Jay Ritchlin (August 5, 2023)
- Joanna Eyquem (August 1, 2023)
- Liese Coulter (August 9, 2023)
- Michelle Molnar (August 1, 2023)
- Mike Kennedy (August 13, 2023)
- Nikita Bhalla (August 2, 2023)
- Patience Cox (August 9, 2023)
- Roy Brooke (August 1, 2023)
- Stephan Jacob (August 9, 2023)
in-the-media
- ‘The Beachcombers’ town is now famous for fighting climate change (May 19, 2021)
- Accounting body proposes rule changes to put nature on the balance sheet (October 5, 2022)
- Beyond Cost Reduction: How Natural Asset Management is Helping the Town of Gibsons Prepare for Climate Change (March 2, 2019)
- Bringing long-buried streams to light a part of urban renewal in Vancouver (April 28, 2019)
- City of Charlottetown creates first natural asset inventory (September 20, 2021)
- City staff buzzing about endangered bee discovery as boulevard preps for another season (April 23, 2019)
- Climate change costs growing for B.C. municipalities (September 16, 2024)
- Dufferin County to join nine Ontario municipalities in climate change program (July 8, 2021)
- Initiative strengthens role of nature in protecting drinking water (March 27, 2019)
- Investment In Green Infrastructure Can Kick-Start The Economy (September 29, 2021)
- Markham to transform industrial area into green space to prevent flood damage (July 9, 2019)
- Municipal Natural Asset Initiative begins in region (October 6, 2022)
- Municipal Natural Assets Initiative recognized by Real Estate Foundation of BC (October 23, 2018)
- Municipalities encouraged to apply for green infrastructure (April 18, 2019)
- Nature knows best: How can we unify natural assets with Canada’s housing supply? (September 17, 2024)
- New Model Helps Cities Value Natural Assets, Like Wetlands, as Infrastructure (October 27, 2018)
- Ontario Greenbelt’s natural assets can help with flood risks (May 1, 2019)
- OP-ED: Can Green Infrastructure Thrive in High Density Urban Development? (June 13, 2024)
- Oshawa Creek worth $400 million: study (April 1, 2020)
- Private lands are key for a comprehensive and collaborative municipal natural asset management strategy (February 7, 2018)
- Project will help HRM, District of Lunenburg adapt infrastructure for climate change. (December 18, 2020)
- Putting a price on nature can help municipalities adapt to climate change (November 13, 2022)
- The Astonishing Opportunities in Our “Hidden Infrastructure” (May 16, 2019)
- The Board and Staff of MNAI are really excited to have won an EcoStar Award in the Environmental Stewardship category! (November 29, 2018)
- The flow of money: what southern Ontario’s nature is worth (June 26, 2024)
- The Grindstone Creek watershed provides $2 billion in services. How? (December 20, 2022)
- The value of our natural assets (May 24, 2023)
- Town of Gibsons completes milestone project in Aquifer 560 Watershed (September 26, 2024)
- Wetlands, forests can help cities save millions in climate adaptation costs: study (March 4, 2020)
- What are Whistler’s natural assets worth? (June 25, 2021)
