Partners in Your Success
Waste is expensive and bad for the planet. Make choices that will sustain the natural world and your co-op’s future.
Protecting the Environment
This world is the only one we have. Investing in sustainability will save your co-op money and protect future generations too.
Check out ideas from the Agency, CMHC, CHF Canada and others that will help reduce your co-op’s footprint. Investments that pay returns to the environment could also pay returns to your co-op.
Resources
Model Environmental Sustainability Policy
CHF Canada
Energy and Water Tune-ups Multi-unit Residential Buildings
CMHC
Energy and Water Efficiency in Multi-Unit Residential Buildings - User Guide
CMHC
Household Guide to Water Efficiency
CMHC
News
Co-Investment Fund will help Modernize Existing Stock and Fund More Housing
17 July 2018
This spring, CMHC launched the National Housing Co-Investment Fund as part of the federal government’s National Housing...
Housing Co-ops adopt the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals
17 July 2018
In 2015, the United Nations (UN) and its member states adopted seventeen goals known as the Sustainable Development...
Save More than Money
Stanley Knowles Housing Co-operative says, “Money saved on energy is money in our pockets.” Read its story for the ideas and the inspiration.
If your co-op is shrinking its environmental footprint, why not share your own story? You can be inspiring too!