While Green Communities Canada (GCC) welcomes the confirmation of several commitments in the 2025 Federal Budget, we await crucial details on investments in nature-based solutions, active transportation, and electrifying…

2025 National Progress Report on Retrofitting Canada’s Homes. The Canada Greener Homes Grant program triggered an explosion in home retrofitting action that supported more than…

The Canada Greener Homes Grant accelerated the pace of retrofits, and we are excited to dig further into the impacts of this program with the…

Heat pumps are all the rage right now, but most are sized incorrectly. Green Communities Canada intends to change that with a new Heat Pump Right-sizing…

Green Communities Canada (GCC) is proud to announce the expansion of our Deep Energy Retrofit project to improve heat pump deep energy retrofits. This work…

Hon Jonathan WilkinsonMinister, Natural Resources Canada580 Booth StreetOttawa, ONCanada  K1A 0E4 Dear Minister Wilkinson, We are writing to express our dismay over the government cancelling…

The Canada Greener Homes Grant has been helping Canadian homeowners pay for energy efficiency upgrades since its introduction in 2021. As noted in our Retrofitting Canada’s…

Peterborough, ON, 8 November 2023: Green Communities Canada has completed an in-depth review of federal data on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Canada’s low-rise housing…

Green Communities Canada (GCC) would like to thank our funders, Peter Gilgan Foundation, Trottier Family Foundation, and McConnell Foundation (along with in-kind contributions from Google…

The term “net-zero” is everywhere we turn these days as it is a solution to climate change. The concept of net zero homes becomes even more relevant…