Live Green Toronto Festival - active with volunteers and community members

ICLEI Case Studies now available online

The ICLEI Case Studies series is now available online.  The Series dates back to the late 1990s and chronicle locally-based projects that support sustainability. Each study documents:

• the local context of the project
• the anatomy of the project
• results
• lessons learned
• the project's replication potential
• budgeting and financial issues

The latest in the series, Case Study 118, profiles a community-based greenhouse gas reduction effort in Toronto:

Live Green Toronto is a unique environmental program designed to help community members and volunteers initiate emissions reduction activities.

Live Green Toronto has three broad components:

• Establish a group of community animators -- members of the program who have a wide range of knowledge and expertise and help organize and motivate the community

• Allot funding opportunities to community members and businesses who have innovative, green ideas. The overall objective is to fund projects - at differing budgets and scales - that help to reduce GHG emissions and improve air quality in the community.

• Expand the Live Green Toronto festival as a way to celebrate successes and create a platform for interaction. The festival has already grown from a half-day event to a weekend-long celebration.

The program shows how community cooperation builds over time to yield positive results. Live Green Toronto's funding opportunities, volunteers base and social visibility have increased as more and more tangible results have been achieved.