We are excited to share the projects from the first round of funding, comprising 26 outstanding initiatives from around the province. These projects, led by local leaders who understand the unique needs of their communities, will foster effective climate action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to respond to the impacts of our changing climate. We applaud these project leaders for their commitment to making positive environmental impacts in their communities.
Successful Applicants
Round 1
Bluenose Coastal Action Foundation
- Project: Mahone Bay Living Shoreline: Flood protection and shoreline stabilization
- Stream: Adaptation
- Funding awarded: $770,604
Centre for Water Resources Studies, Dalhousie University
- Project: Climate change impacts on community groundwater resources in Nova Scotia
- Stream: Adaptation
- Funding awarded: $343,000
Coastal Connections Trail Association
- Project: Louisbourg Lighthouse Trail retreat from shoreline
- Stream: Adaptation
- Funding awarded: $158,400
Friends of the DesBrisay Museum
- Project: Preserving Bridgewater’s heritage: Deep energy retrofits and flood mitigation initiatives for the DesBrisay Museum
- Stream: Mitigation
- Funding awarded: $349,980
Hope Blooms Youth Social Entrepreneurial Ventures Inc
- Project: Solar tracker to power Hope Bloom’s building and irrigation system
- Stream: Mitigation
- Funding awarded: $130,000
Mulgrave Road Theatre
- Project: Creation of a net-zero creative centre
- Stream: Mitigation
- Funding awarded: $500,000
MusGo Rider Cooperative Ltd.
- Project: Sunlight to energy for a rural public transportation facility
- Stream: Mitigation
- Funding awarded: $130,400
NSCAD University
- Project: The Flaxmobile project – Connecting NS communities through a fibre flax revitalization
- Stream: Mitigation
- Funding awarded: $112,000
Paq’tnkek Mi’kmaw Nation
- Project: Solar PV feasibility study
- Stream: Mitigation
- Funding awarded: $77,382
South Shore Community Service Association (Bonny Lea Farm)
- Project: Campus electrification and decarbonization project
- Stream: Mitigation
- Funding awarded: $348,810
The Sunset Community Incorporated
- Project: Greening the Sunset Community with solar installations
- Stream: Mitigation
- Funding awarded: $126,833
Town of Antigonish
- Project: Community district energy system feasibility study
- Stream: Mitigation
- Funding awarded: $300,000
Waterfront Baddeck
- Project: Kidston Island and boardwalk shoreline resiliency
- Stream: Adaptation
- Funding awarded: $293,112
Cape Breton Community Housing Association
- Project: Electrification of heating, cooling and ventilation systems/fuel switching
- Stream: Mitigation
- Funding awarded: $207,729
Cheticamp River Atlantic Salmon Association
- Project: Addressing climate change impacts in the Cheticamp River Wild Salmon Watershed
- Stream: Adaptation
- Funding awarded: $75,000
ENRICH with MakeWay Charitable Society
- Project: Building capacity around climate change preparedness in African Nova Scotian communities
- Stream: Adaptation
- Funding awarded: $250,000
Glooscap First Nation
- Project: Glooscap Landing micro-grid with solar PV and EV charging station
- Stream: Mitigation
- Funding awarded: $832,418
Halifax Regional Municipality
- Project: Halifax Solid Waste strategy review
- Stream: Mitigation
- Funding awarded: $306,600
Kingsburg Coastal Conservancy Association
- Project: Assessing the carbon storage capacity of local wetlands
- Stream: Mitigation
- Funding awarded: $267,400
Municipality of the County of Kings
- Project: Municipal EV charging station installation
- Stream: Mitigation
- Funding awarded: $405,000
New Dawn Centre for Social Innovation
- Project: Sustainability in a centre for social innovation – building retrofits
- Stream: Mitigation
- Funding awarded: $776,159
One North End
- Project: Deep energy retrofit training and capacity building for African Nova Scotians
- Stream: Mitigation
- Funding awarded: $127,200
Saint Mary’s University – TransCoastal Adaptations
- Project: Building community coastal resilience with Green Shores for Homes
- Stream: Adaptation
- Funding awarded: $238,098
The Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq – Department of Aquatic Resources and Fisheries Management
- Project: Preserving and enhancing cold-water refugia in Nova Scotia watersheds
- Stream: Adaptation
- Funding awarded: $181,722
Town of Amherst
- Project: Flood risk mitigation infrastructure upgrades
- Stream: Adaptation
- Funding awarded: $349,300
Truro Curling Club
- Project: Solar energy to power the curling club and make ice
- Stream: Mitigation
- Funding awarded: $200,000