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About Renewable Cities

OUR MISSION

Renewable Cities works to accelerate the transition to renewable, restorative and resilient cities and communities through meaningful engagement, capacity building and convening. We apply a multi-solving, systemic approach in all our work to support climate resilience, affordability, livability and complete communities. Renewable Cities is a special initiative of the SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue.

SOLVING COMPLEX, INTERCONNECTED PROBLEMS

Renewable Cities uses a systems-thinking approach to tackle our most urgent priorities locally and nationally: affordability, congestion, prosperity, ecological integrity, resilience and climate change.

WHAT DOES RENEWABLE MEAN TO US?

Regenerative, reparative and responsive

Self-sufficient communities that can shift to meet emerging needs, respond to challenges and foster resilience and connection

Equitable and accountable

We include and aspire toward equity and reconciliation in all our programming to support communities foster physical and social resilience, dignity and accessibility

Holistic

Our lens of ‘renewable’ extends beyond the environmental context to encompass capabilities of ‘being renewed’ in social and economic ways that support livability and adaptability