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Integrated sustainable thinking about urban design: green infrastructure, movement, social infrastructure and cost. The intertwining and interrelationship of these objectives is captured well in Development Checklists.  / University of British Columbia, James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Livable Environments, 2005.

Approaches that can be combined for infusing a Zoning Bylaw with climate action strategies include:

Zoning bylaws define how specific areas of land can be used. For example, land can be zoned for residential, commercial, industrial or recreational.  Zoning bylaws can also specify the nature of these uses in more detail (eg. multi-family residential, mixed residential) and regulate characteristics such as lot size, placement, density and height of structures.

Preferred design for pedestrian crossing of a driveway with low volume is to raise the driveway crossing up and over the pedestrian crossing, and texture the surface of the crossing.  This warns visu

Corporate emissions charts.

Corporate Emissions Charts.

Community Emissions Charts.

Community Emissions Charts.

Commuting by office workers accounts for 30% more energy use than a building uses for meeting its energy needs (e.g. heating, cooling, lighting, etc.) This may well exceed the energy savings realized by a green building. [1]