sustainAbility

Community Sustainability Evaluation

How sustainable is your community compared to other? Please rank the below factors based on their importance to you. When you are done, refresh the map. You may click on any community you wish to examine, and it's relative ranking and other statistics will appear for you to view. If a certain criteria is not important to you, you may switch it off using the toggles.

How important are green spaces to you?

Green space in your community

Number of trees in your community

How important is having effective and reliable transportation to you?

Road Quality

Accessible Bikeways

Accessible Walkways

Availability of Bus stops

Availability of Train stations (LRT)

How important is living close to businesses and work? Do you prefer single family housing or multi-tenant buildings?

Population Density

Proximity of businesses

sustainAble Transport

How much money can you save by switching to public transit, biking, or walking?

How much can greenhouse gas emissions be reduced?

How many days a week do you plan to walk or bike this route?

What is your car's fuel efficiency in L / 100 km?

Please set your home and away markers

Set Home Marker

Set Away Marker

Clear Markers

Distance traveled for a round trip
0.0 km
Emission per day
0.0 kg CO2
Emission per week
0.0 kg CO2
Emission per month
0.0 kg CO2
Emission per Year
0.0 kg CO2

sustainAble Food

How much food could you grow in your yard or a community garden?

How much can greenhouse gas emissions be reduced, by eliminating food transport distance?

Plot your garden bed

Remove Current Garden Beds

Which crop are you planning on planting?

Total yield of crop:
0.0 kg

Greenhouse Gases reduction If this crop normally comes from British Columbia [500 - 1000 km]
0.0 - 0.0 kg CO2
If this crop normally comes from California [1500 - 2500 km]
0.0 - 0.0 kg CO2

sustainAble Housing

Could you help densify your community by renting out a secondary suite on your property?

Click on where you live to see the correspondent land use designation code.

Permited: R-C1Ls, R-C1s, R-C2, R-1s, R-2, R-2M, R-CG, M-CG, R-G, R-Gm

Discretionary: R-C1L, R-C1, R-C1N, R-1, R-1N

Learn more here.

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sustainAbility
Created by The Four Mapsketeers

This application was created to empower the citizens of Calgary to make changes in their life and to help create more sustainable communities. The primary goal of this application is to bridge the gap between Calgary's city-wide policies (MDP) and its citizen engagement.

This application allows the user to define what sustainability means to them on their own terms and to evaluate the communities in their city based on this definition. We believe that greening the city, connecting the city, and city compactness are areas that individual citizens will have the most impact through making attainable changes in their lives.

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