One Million Acts of Green: The Okotoks-Airdrie Challenge

The City of Airdrie, Alberta, recently completed a community-wide visioning process as part of its municipal sustainability planning process, which is supported by The Natural Step. Since late 2008, Airdrie has been engaged in a good natured competition with the neighbouring Town of Okotoks to see which community can commit to more ‘acts of green’ as part of the CBC’s One Million Acts of Green challenge.

CBC’s The Hour host George Stroumboulopoulos has called the Airdrie/Okotoks battle “the new battle of Alberta, never mind the Oilers and the Flames.” With only a couple of days remaining, Airdrie has the lead in all four categories, but the results are still too close to call for certain. Together, the communities have completed nearly 54,000 acts of green and saved an estimated 4,860,000 kg of green house gases. Track the communities’ progress here.