Tag: community
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Why do an inventory? LBMCOC councillor explains in this video
Imagine living in a small, friendly, quiet community that’s surrounded by a stunning, natural landscape and coastline and that’s only ~10 kilometres…
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MNAI project to help 30+ communities reduce costs, adapt to climate change
December 16, 2020 (Victoria, BC) – The Natural Assets Initiative (NAI) has launched an Acceleration project that will help approximately 30 Canadian local governments determine…
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Greenbelt Foundation Makes Pivotal Investment in Natural Asset Inventories
$500K to be Invested, Helping Canadian Communities Prepare forClimate Change TORONTO, November 30, 2020 — With significant support from a private donor,…
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Innovative, new, nature-based insurance product to help protect natural assets
What are your local government’s challenges and needs?Tell us in this survey MNAI is partnering with one of the world’s largest re-insurers,…
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Natural Assets Underpin Asset Management Planning in Logy-Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove, Newfoundland
“The need for sustainable development was what drove me into local politics,” said Paul Ryan, who was first elected to the Town…
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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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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 & 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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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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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…
