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For over a decade, the City of Thunder Bay has strengthened the connection between municipal facilities and local food systems. The city is a leader in food systems planning in Ontario, having adopted the Thunder Bay Food Charter, the Community Environmental Action...
As a partner in the Serving Up Local project, the City of Hamilton aimed to increase the purchase of local food items. Two approaches were taken. The first was to increase local food procurement from current vendors to whom they have obligations under the Group...
The Golden Horseshoe Food and Farming Alliance (GHFFA) project, Serving Up Local, is a partnership with Durham and Halton Regions and the City of Hamilton. The project aims to increase the local food purchases for long-term care homes by five percent of each...
In June 2019, as part of the urban transport project, the City of Ostrów Wielkopolski in Poland published a tender for six electric low-floor city buses with a dedicated traction battery charging system for the city. The procuring authority, Miejski Zakład Komunikacji...
The Municipality of Getxo in Spain aimed to reduce energy performance by modernizing three municipal sports centres. Using an innovative procurement approach, the municipality conducted a pilot and incentivized the supplier by combining a series of measures and...
Developed as part of the Recycled Asphalt Pavement (RAP) Pilot conducted in collaboration with the City of Richmond, Lafarge Canada, and the National Zero Waste Council, the RAP Toolkit provides insight into key considerations as a best practice checklist when...