Godo Stoyke is an award-winning environmental researcher, president of Carbon Busters (www.carbonbusters.org), author of The Carbon Buster’s Home Energy Handbook, and recognized as one of 50 green Canadians making a difference for our environment by Green Living Magazine in 2008. This is the first book to describe the specific municipal bylaws required to create sustainable communities and abate climate change. It lists green bylaws and regulations from environmentally advanced communities around the world. These bylaws are internationally applicable, with an emphasis on examples that benefit jurisdictions found in temperate climates such as Canada and the US. The author proposes innovative new bylaws that are found nowhere else. Intended audience is city councilors and mayors, all levels of government, city planners, designers, architects and engineers, and environmental activists and consultants. This is the “carbon Buster’s Handbook” for municipal planners – aimed to provide city councilors with a cut and paste set of bylaws and policies that can be taken straight out of the book and placed into a council agenda, and voted on. Provides city councilors with the research, expertise and methods they need to implement sustainability initiatives quickly. Each bylaw contains three sections – samples, case studies and background material and references. Includes numbered QuickLinks that allow readers access to full bylaw texts, links and further materials at the book’s website. Designed for wide appeal to circles outside of North America and outside English-speaking countries.