SustainableYYC
@sustainableyyc.bsky.social
Codesigning Calgary’s transition to a sustainable future. Public health, equity, urban design and active transportation.
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State of Our City 2026 is out now! The 7th edition of this report is the result of hundreds of hours of volunteer work from researchers and experts and tracks Calgary’s progress on seven domains: Community, Economy, Wellness, Natural Environment, Resource Use and Governance.
Volunteer opportunity! Join us on Friday July 3rd (tomorrow!) to help refresh the garden beds at the Connaught Open Street. Drop by and lend a hand between 4-8pm, no RSVP necessary.
July 2, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Volunteer opportunity! Join us on Friday July 3rd (tomorrow!) to help refresh the garden beds at the Connaught Open Street. Drop by and lend a hand between 4-8pm, no RSVP necessary.
Are you inspired to make your neighbourhood safer for kids? To add greenspace? To build community? You may want to launch an open street!
May 30, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Are you inspired to make your neighbourhood safer for kids? To add greenspace? To build community? You may want to launch an open street!
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School pick-up and drop-off zones have pollution levels above rec. daily limits.
But we can change that: with anti-idling campaigns, school active travel plans, participating in a walk-or bike-bus, or seeing if a "school street" works in your neighbourhood.
From @sustainableyyc.bsky.social and me!
But we can change that: with anti-idling campaigns, school active travel plans, participating in a walk-or bike-bus, or seeing if a "school street" works in your neighbourhood.
From @sustainableyyc.bsky.social and me!
May 9, 2026 at 6:28 PM
School pick-up and drop-off zones have pollution levels above rec. daily limits.
But we can change that: with anti-idling campaigns, school active travel plans, participating in a walk-or bike-bus, or seeing if a "school street" works in your neighbourhood.
From @sustainableyyc.bsky.social and me!
But we can change that: with anti-idling campaigns, school active travel plans, participating in a walk-or bike-bus, or seeing if a "school street" works in your neighbourhood.
From @sustainableyyc.bsky.social and me!
Over the past 20 years, the replacement cost of city infrastructure has been increasing at a rate that outpaces the GDP of the Calgary Region, imposing on each Calgarian an increasing tax liability into the future.
May 7, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Over the past 20 years, the replacement cost of city infrastructure has been increasing at a rate that outpaces the GDP of the Calgary Region, imposing on each Calgarian an increasing tax liability into the future.
The relationships between mental health and sustainability are reinforcing: lack of public space, poverty, pollution, and social inequalities can worsen mental health, while good mental health helps us tackle economic, environmental, educational, and political challenges for a better future.
May 6, 2026 at 4:24 PM
The relationships between mental health and sustainability are reinforcing: lack of public space, poverty, pollution, and social inequalities can worsen mental health, while good mental health helps us tackle economic, environmental, educational, and political challenges for a better future.
Just as food costs are rising, so are food insecurity rates in #yyc. These numbers are supported by a 2025 report from Dalhousie University that found 80.6% of survey participants reported food was the necessity that saw the greatest cost increase over the past 12 months.
May 5, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Just as food costs are rising, so are food insecurity rates in #yyc. These numbers are supported by a 2025 report from Dalhousie University that found 80.6% of survey participants reported food was the necessity that saw the greatest cost increase over the past 12 months.
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It was really lovely to see @courtellingson.bsky.social table five copies of @sustainableyyc.bsky.social’s State Of Our City report in the Legislature today. Thanks for sharing this important work!!! 🥰 #ableg
Learn more in State of Our City 2026: Widening Our Circle of Care, available at local bookshops around Calgary and for free on our website.
www.sustainablecalgary.org/publications...
www.sustainablecalgary.org/publications...
State of Our City 2026 — Sustainable Calgary
State of Our City Summary : Confronting the Multiple Crises of Our Time
www.sustainablecalgary.org
May 4, 2026 at 9:02 PM
It was really lovely to see @courtellingson.bsky.social table five copies of @sustainableyyc.bsky.social’s State Of Our City report in the Legislature today. Thanks for sharing this important work!!! 🥰 #ableg
You'd probably guess that the ecological footprint of the average Calgarian remains well beyond the global average. But do you know to what scale?
May 4, 2026 at 4:58 PM
You'd probably guess that the ecological footprint of the average Calgarian remains well beyond the global average. But do you know to what scale?
For the first time in 30 years of State of Our City reports, the Community domain is moving in the wrong direction, reflected in indicators like volunteerism.
April 30, 2026 at 8:24 PM
For the first time in 30 years of State of Our City reports, the Community domain is moving in the wrong direction, reflected in indicators like volunteerism.
State of Our City 2026 is out now! The 7th edition of this report is the result of hundreds of hours of volunteer work from researchers and experts and tracks Calgary’s progress on seven domains: Community, Economy, Wellness, Natural Environment, Resource Use and Governance.
April 23, 2026 at 10:18 PM
State of Our City 2026 is out now! The 7th edition of this report is the result of hundreds of hours of volunteer work from researchers and experts and tracks Calgary’s progress on seven domains: Community, Economy, Wellness, Natural Environment, Resource Use and Governance.
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Big credit to Mayor Cam Guthrie (@camguthrie.bsky.social) of Guelph, Ontario for using strong mayor powers to reinstate funding for winter clearing of the city’s bike network!
Snow clearing is the essential factor, without which people can’t even consider biking in the winter.
Snow clearing is the essential factor, without which people can’t even consider biking in the winter.
Backpedalling on bike lane maintenance
YouTube video by CTV News
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December 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Big credit to Mayor Cam Guthrie (@camguthrie.bsky.social) of Guelph, Ontario for using strong mayor powers to reinstate funding for winter clearing of the city’s bike network!
Snow clearing is the essential factor, without which people can’t even consider biking in the winter.
Snow clearing is the essential factor, without which people can’t even consider biking in the winter.
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Special thanks to our GREAT #Hallowheelin event partners @sustainableyyc.bsky.social for making this cool stop on our ride, with a quiz, prizes, yummy kombucha & snacks & LOTSA PUMPKINS at #ConnaughtOpenStreet
Check out the video here: www.instagram.com/reel/DQcxAcx... #yyc #Hallowheelin #yycbike
Check out the video here: www.instagram.com/reel/DQcxAcx... #yyc #Hallowheelin #yycbike
November 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Special thanks to our GREAT #Hallowheelin event partners @sustainableyyc.bsky.social for making this cool stop on our ride, with a quiz, prizes, yummy kombucha & snacks & LOTSA PUMPKINS at #ConnaughtOpenStreet
Check out the video here: www.instagram.com/reel/DQcxAcx... #yyc #Hallowheelin #yycbike
Check out the video here: www.instagram.com/reel/DQcxAcx... #yyc #Hallowheelin #yycbike
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MARK THE DATE, ghosts & goblins! The Hub's INAUGURAL #Hallowheelin' event is coming up Saturday, Oct 25th!
🧛♀️ Downtown Business Trick or Treating!
👹 Costume Contest!
👻 The Beasts & Banshees #BikeLane!
🎃 Haunted Calgary Tour Stops!
& MORE!!
RSVP: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/hallowheelin
#yycbike #yyc
🧛♀️ Downtown Business Trick or Treating!
👹 Costume Contest!
👻 The Beasts & Banshees #BikeLane!
🎃 Haunted Calgary Tour Stops!
& MORE!!
RSVP: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/hallowheelin
#yycbike #yyc
October 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
MARK THE DATE, ghosts & goblins! The Hub's INAUGURAL #Hallowheelin' event is coming up Saturday, Oct 25th!
🧛♀️ Downtown Business Trick or Treating!
👹 Costume Contest!
👻 The Beasts & Banshees #BikeLane!
🎃 Haunted Calgary Tour Stops!
& MORE!!
RSVP: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/hallowheelin
#yycbike #yyc
🧛♀️ Downtown Business Trick or Treating!
👹 Costume Contest!
👻 The Beasts & Banshees #BikeLane!
🎃 Haunted Calgary Tour Stops!
& MORE!!
RSVP: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/hallowheelin
#yycbike #yyc
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I've always wanted to dress up my bike for halloween but then I wonder what I will do with it because my kids are too old to want to let me tag along for trick or treating, and maybe this is the answer
MARK THE DATE, ghosts & goblins! The Hub's INAUGURAL #Hallowheelin' event is coming up Saturday, Oct 25th!
🧛♀️ Downtown Business Trick or Treating!
👹 Costume Contest!
👻 The Beasts & Banshees #BikeLane!
🎃 Haunted Calgary Tour Stops!
& MORE!!
RSVP: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/hallowheelin
#yycbike #yyc
🧛♀️ Downtown Business Trick or Treating!
👹 Costume Contest!
👻 The Beasts & Banshees #BikeLane!
🎃 Haunted Calgary Tour Stops!
& MORE!!
RSVP: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/hallowheelin
#yycbike #yyc
October 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I've always wanted to dress up my bike for halloween but then I wonder what I will do with it because my kids are too old to want to let me tag along for trick or treating, and maybe this is the answer
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It’s officially September and Bike-A-Palooza is right around the corner! 🎉 Welcome back @sustainableyyc.bsky.social. They champion community, inclusion, and vibrancy while helping make Calgary a great place to live. Learn more at sustainablecalgary.org.
🚲Sign up: CalgaryGlenmoreBike.eventbrite.ca
🚲Sign up: CalgaryGlenmoreBike.eventbrite.ca
September 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
It’s officially September and Bike-A-Palooza is right around the corner! 🎉 Welcome back @sustainableyyc.bsky.social. They champion community, inclusion, and vibrancy while helping make Calgary a great place to live. Learn more at sustainablecalgary.org.
🚲Sign up: CalgaryGlenmoreBike.eventbrite.ca
🚲Sign up: CalgaryGlenmoreBike.eventbrite.ca
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Here we are just trying to get school streets to get piloted in Calgary. @sustainableyyc.bsky.social @calgary.ca
👏👏👏 Paris built 115 school streets in a year. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN.
😳😳😳 Edinburgh built one school street 5 years ago, and it remains dilapidated and temporary to this day
😳😳😳 Edinburgh built one school street 5 years ago, and it remains dilapidated and temporary to this day
Back to school is coming fast!
In #Paris, they have la rentrée sorted.
There are 300 "rue aux écoles," streets closed to cars, but open to people—up from 185 last year.
That means *half* of kindergartens + elementary schools now have school streets.
What's your city doing to keep kids safe?
In #Paris, they have la rentrée sorted.
There are 300 "rue aux écoles," streets closed to cars, but open to people—up from 185 last year.
That means *half* of kindergartens + elementary schools now have school streets.
What's your city doing to keep kids safe?
September 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Here we are just trying to get school streets to get piloted in Calgary. @sustainableyyc.bsky.social @calgary.ca
Sustainable Calgary's Executive Director, @celiaravenlee.bsky.social speaks about our work with kids to make healthier, safer communities. With your help we can turn prototype projects into best practices to make school streets safer across Calgary!
August 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Sustainable Calgary's Executive Director, @celiaravenlee.bsky.social speaks about our work with kids to make healthier, safer communities. With your help we can turn prototype projects into best practices to make school streets safer across Calgary!
In our summer newsletter, we’re sharing stories of what the new frontier of sustainable change looks like in action. From permanent street transformations to award-winning urban design, and the first stirrings of a fall election that will shape our city's next chapter. Read here: shorturl.at/lDXVO
July 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
In our summer newsletter, we’re sharing stories of what the new frontier of sustainable change looks like in action. From permanent street transformations to award-winning urban design, and the first stirrings of a fall election that will shape our city's next chapter. Read here: shorturl.at/lDXVO
We've launched a new series on our blog where we're tipping our hats to women reimagining public space in Calgary. ⛲🎨 First-up: women transforming Bridgeland (1/3)
July 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We've launched a new series on our blog where we're tipping our hats to women reimagining public space in Calgary. ⛲🎨 First-up: women transforming Bridgeland (1/3)
Reimagining our city starts with bold ideas, and sometimes, those ideas come from 9-year-olds. 🌱 The Connaught Open Street, a pop-up park beside a Calgary elementary school, started as an idea from a group of fourth graders. Now it’s permanent.
July 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Reimagining our city starts with bold ideas, and sometimes, those ideas come from 9-year-olds. 🌱 The Connaught Open Street, a pop-up park beside a Calgary elementary school, started as an idea from a group of fourth graders. Now it’s permanent.
In her reflections on the Stampede spirit, our Executive Director @celiaravenlee.bsky.social tips her hat to Calgary’s get’er done attitude, and reminds us that in uncertain times, the best way forward is to roll up our sleeves and try.
July 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
In her reflections on the Stampede spirit, our Executive Director @celiaravenlee.bsky.social tips her hat to Calgary’s get’er done attitude, and reminds us that in uncertain times, the best way forward is to roll up our sleeves and try.
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So thrilled to see these out in the world! I have a particular fondness for the « Star Gazing & Storytelling » postcard. 🥰
July 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
So thrilled to see these out in the world! I have a particular fondness for the « Star Gazing & Storytelling » postcard. 🥰
🌞 Sustainable summer fun, delivered! Introducing our Summer Fun in the City Postcard Pack, 5 self-guided adventures to share with friends, yours for a donation of $30 or more. Each postcard is an invitation to explore, learn, and connect right here in the city.
July 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
🌞 Sustainable summer fun, delivered! Introducing our Summer Fun in the City Postcard Pack, 5 self-guided adventures to share with friends, yours for a donation of $30 or more. Each postcard is an invitation to explore, learn, and connect right here in the city.
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More #SchoolStreets are coming to Mississauga!! 8 80 Cities is proud to support the City of Mississauga’s School Streets program through the National Active School Streets Initiative delivered by @greencommunities.bsky.social & funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Two Mississauga schools are going car-free at pick-up and drop-off times as part of the Mississauga School Streets pilot project.
The project is delivered in partnership with Green Communities Canada and funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Read more: buff.ly/gJF8SzA
#SchoolStreets
The project is delivered in partnership with Green Communities Canada and funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Read more: buff.ly/gJF8SzA
#SchoolStreets
NO CARS ALLOWED: Safer spaces to be created for kids at 2 Mississauga schools | INsauga
Cars will be kept away from student drop-off and pickup areas in front of two Mississauga schools at certain times of the day under an extended pilot project aimed at making roads safer for kids.…
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July 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
More #SchoolStreets are coming to Mississauga!! 8 80 Cities is proud to support the City of Mississauga’s School Streets program through the National Active School Streets Initiative delivered by @greencommunities.bsky.social & funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada.
This Stampede season, help us build the next generation of School Streets—because the new frontier isn’t out on the range. It’s right here in our neighbourhoods.
July 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
This Stampede season, help us build the next generation of School Streets—because the new frontier isn’t out on the range. It’s right here in our neighbourhoods.