Lonsdale Energy district energy system delivers high-efficiency, cost-effective sustainable energy to North Vancouver customers, while reducing community-wide GHG emissions.

Extensive walking and bicycle paths are part of green community planning; permeably paved streets lined with bioswales returning 97 percent of runoff to the watershed are part of award-winning innovation in green community planning. But the streets were just one of the creative features that won UniverCity its APA National Planning Excellence Award. The project of Simon Fraser University's SFU Community Trust is home to a community of exclusively multi-family buildings, including a buildingwith solar-boosted hot water and 20 300-foot-deep, liquid-filled geo-exchange wells that draw heat from the earth.