First implemented in 1991, the Calgary Commuter Challenge was designed to encourage commuters to explore alternative transportation options as part of National Environment Week. I…
Several decades ago, the city of Cape Town, South Africa predicted severe water shortages as a result of rapid urbanization and high per capita water consumption. In 2018, as the …
Due to a rapid increase in population growth, Barrie, Ontario was faced with an increasing demand on water supply. An environmental assessment conducted by the Municipal Works Dep…
Based on a campaign run in Belgium in 2003, Europe’s Energy Neighborhoods was a program designed to allow neighborhoods to ‘bet’ with their municipalities that they could reduce e…
Medicine Hat, a city in western Canada with a municipally owned utility, was interested in exploring how consumers would respond to receiving information on their home’s heat loss…
In 1991 the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) launched Spare the Air – a voluntary program designed to curtail motor vehicle emissions and improve air quality thro…
Developed in the Region of Peel, Ontario, Stepping It Up was a program designed to reduce car traffic and increase walking and cycling to school by working with elementary school …
Targeting gay men in the inner Melbourne region, the Drama Downunder campaign was designed to (1) increase access to diagnosis, treatment, and care of sexually transmitted infecti…
Eat Smart to Play Hard (ESPH) was an obesity prevention campaign designed to increase fruit and vegetable consumption among 8–11-year-olds in both urban and rural school settings.…
With assistance from the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), the Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap (PPPHW) was created in Senegal in 2003. Based on an initial s…
