Sharing Local Solutions: Help Grow Alberta’s Air Quality Toolkit

Municipal staff and air quality practitioners often face similar challenges: idling around schools, backyard burning, smoke impacts, landfill gas management, lighting and building efficiency, or developing policies that support cleaner air. When one community finds a solution that works, others can benefit from it.

Why Your Local Resources Matter

Sharing your resources helps:

• Highlight practical, proven approaches
• Support municipalities that are building or updating air quality programs
• Reduce duplication of effort
• Strengthen Alberta’s collective capacity to manage air quality

Even small contributions, like a one-page guideline or a sample communication, can make a big difference for another community.

What You Can Share

We encourage municipal members and other practitioners to contribute any resource that supports air quality management, including:

• Bylaws and policies: Idling, backyard burning, smoke management, landfill operations, building codes, lighting standards, or other air-related regulations.
• Templates and tools: Checklists, communication templates, operational procedures, or planning documents.
• Case studies and examples: What worked in your community? What didn’t? What lessons would you share with others?
• Reports and assessments: Local studies, monitoring summaries, or evaluations that may help others understand emerging issues.

If it helps your municipality manage air quality, it can help someone else too.

How to Share Your Resource

You can easily upload files, templates, reports, or examples directly in the Community Forum under Resources & Advice. This space is secure, member-only, and designed for collaboration among municipal staff and air quality practitioners across Alberta.

Sharing is simple:

• Log in to the secure Airhub portal
• Navigate to Community Forum → Resources & Advice
• Upload your file or post your example
• Add a short description so others know how it can be used

Your contribution becomes part of a growing library that supports communities province-wide.

Help Build a Stronger Toolkit

The Airhub Toolkit is designed to turn air quality data into action, but it becomes stronger, more practical, and more relevant when municipal members share their real-world experience.

If you have a bylaw, policy, template, or example that could help another community, we encourage you to add it to the Airhub today. Together, we can build a resource that reflects the best of Alberta’s air quality leadership.