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Bringing universities, municipalities, and community organizations together to work collectively on the Sustainable Development Goals and create a more prosperous and sustainable future.

Assessing progress and future planning: University-Municipal teams collaborate to measure progress towards the SDGs
Collective Impact: Creating a collaborative ecosystem among community actors to build sustainable cities
Data localization: Develop context-specific indicators to measure change at the local level

News

Thursday, January 15, 2026

Announcing Resilient Urban Futures

We are pleased to be contributing to an exciting upcoming workshop called “Resilient Urban Futures” which invites academic, community, and municipal representatives from our five Local Futures communities to come together in March 2026 in Waterloo to strengthen long-term climate planning using future-foresight techniques and tools.

We are pleased to partner with Dr. Robert Patrick, Janelle Hutchinson, Stephanie Ortynsky, and Matt Wolsfeld from the University of Saskatchewan to bring the Local Futures project to life in the City of Yorkton, Saskatchewan. 

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Lucid Axon: A Local Futures Partner

We are pleased to announce a new partnership with Lucid Axon, a Montreal based start-up that has pioneered an Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform to analyze and evaluate organizational performance in terms of ESG, the SDGs, and sustainability impact.

Project Partners

Thank you to all our partners that contribute to making Local Futures a success. Learn more about our project partners.

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