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Our work at Sustainable Calgary grows out of needs identified in our State of our City reports. Inspired by those findings, we collaborate on national progams including the Active Neighbourhoods Canada and the Housing Transportation Food Nexus Fund.
ANNOUNCEMENT!
The Connaught Open Street is back!
Last year, Sustainable Calgary prototyped the Connaught Open Street where we transformed part of 10th Street into a public space. This innovative project was brainstormed by students at Connaught School who wanted to make walking and wheeling to school safer and more fun for everyone. The response last summer was overwhelming: kids, parents and local community members wanted the Open Street back in 2023. With the support of the Beltline Community Infrastructure Fund (BCIF), we’re excited to be reinstalling the Connaught Open Street for another round of prototyping.
For this second phase of the project, we’re focusing on engaging residents on what should be included in the space long term. Sustainable Calgary and a team of designers will then take the community feedback and develop concepts for what a more permanent installation could look like, which will go back to the community for additional feedback this winter.
Sustainable Calgary representatives will be on-site every Tuesday and Thursday all summer between 2-6pm with games and surveys. Be sure to swing by during your lunch break or your walk home to say hi!
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Kids Reimagine School Streets takes home Honourable Mention for Mayor’s Urban Design Award: Community Initiatives
The Connaught Open Street
Meridian Active Alley
Martindale Calm Collector
With many thanks to the Government of Canada, Calgary Foundation, Parks Foundation, Arusha, ActivateYYC, City of Calgary, Connaught School, Calgary Islamic School OBK, Connaught School Parent Council, OBK Parent Council, Ecole la Mosaique, Manmeet Singh Bhullar School, Next Calgary - and more!
past projects — 2021
Confluence at Heritage Station
Confluence is a pop-up transit plaza with games, coffee, fresh food, markets and concerts. It showcases an alternative use of land surrounding the LRT, that provides walkability and convenience to the average commuter and surrounding community. Thank you to the City of Calgary, Arusha, ActivateYYC, and West Hillhurst Paint for their support! Find out more by clicking here.
Watch our 2021 TEDxYYC!
Re-imagining Public Spaces
About half of urban land in most North American cities is devoted to cars. But mounting evidence suggests there are downsides to prioritizing cars above other uses. This talk revisits assumptions about how we use public space and highlights Sustainable Calgary’s work with communities, that reimagines neighbourhoods for better health outcomes. Check out the full slide deck here.
Announcement!
Destination Marlborough is up and running! This ‘space activation’ emerged from our codesign process. Click on the video below for more on how we got here and who was involved.
Announcement!
Browse 10 years of work from students, professionals and community members imagining a post-carbon community in Calgary. Manchester Futures is now live!
Click here to read more on Manchester Futures.
Announcement!
State of our City is the proud recipient of the Legacy Project Impact Award by the Community Indicators Consortium!
Active Neighbourhoods Canada celebrates 10 years!
We’ve been partnering with the Montreal Urban Ecology Centre and The Centre for Active Transportation to co-design healthy places for Canadian communities. Click below to explore more!
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For the past two decades, Sustainable Calgary has been the product of partnerships and relationships. We collaborate with other organizations and convene with community around big questions and ideas. Most of our projects fall into one of our two core programmes – Active Neighbourhoods Canada or Housing Transportation Food Nexus Fund – but we also pursue one-off project opportunities.
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