Tag: community
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Pilot to Protect Species at Risk & Reduce Flooding Through Natural Asset Management Takes Big Step Forward
The Western Painted Turtle, Great Blue Heron, Morrison Creek Lamprey, Little Brown Bat, and other species at risk and their habitat could…
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Coastal Resilience
Coastal Resilience
Northwest New Brunswick communities explore natural asset approach to manage flooding
Spring has arrived in Canada, but for many communities that brings both flowers and flooding. The MNAI team has worked with numerous…
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News Release
News Release
News Release & Backgrounder: Nature helps communities manage flooding
(Feb. 24, 2020 Victoria) – The latest research from the Municipal Natural Assets Initiative (MNAI) finds that natural assets like wetlands, forests…
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News Release
News Release
MNAI Grindstone Creek Project launches!
The Grindstone Creek Project Partners – the City of Burlington, Conservation Halton, Royal Botanical Partners and the Municipal Natural Assets Initiative, together…
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Congratulations to all the finalists! And we’re so honoured to be one of them.
Congratulations to all the finalists! We are excited to announce the 2019 Ecostar Award Finalists! So many great businesses, organizations, and individuals…
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Coastal Communities
Coastal Communities
Natural solutions can deliver core services in coastal communities
In the face of climate change, coastal communities can look to natural assets to better provide core services to their citizens. Watching…
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MNAI September blog: update on Canada’s first watershed-scale initiative
Progress is continuing in Canada’s first watershed-scale, natural asset management project that launched earlier this year. In March, several communities in the…
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Interview
Interview
Engineers and the move towards municipal natural asset management
Interview with Ryan O’Grady, P.Eng., Director of Engineering, City of Courtenay I was raised on a Saskatchewan grain farm. This introduced me…
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Canada’s first watershed-scale municipal natural asset management initiative is now underway!
On Vancouver Island, the Comox Valley Regional District, City of Courtenay, Town of Comox and Village of Cumberland and K’ómoks First Nation…
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News Release
News Release
News Release: MNAI meets growth with expanded board expertise
NEWS RELEASE MNAI meets growth with expanded board expertise FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (July 2, 2019) VICTORIA, BC – As more and more municipalities…
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Blog Post
Blog Post
Reflections on nature-based solutions profiled at European Climate Change Adaptation conference in Lisbon
By Michelle Molnar – NAI’s Technical Director As the technical director for Municipal Natural Assets Initiative, I had the privilege to present…
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Community
Community
Where are they now? West Van
District of West Vancouver First in a series of posts on activities of the 5 original community pilots since completing formal involvement…
