“Wildly Ambitious” Blatchford, the Largest Planned Carbon Neutral Community in North America is Taking Flight

Source: David Dodge | · LINKEDIN · | March 5, 2025

Blatchford Carbon Neutral Community – Part 1

Blatchford is the largest planned carbon-neutral community in North America. This visionary project in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, may have been ahead of its time when it started, but now it’s taking off and leading the way.

“It was wildly ambitious; the idea of a carbon-neutral community was very far out there,” says Anne Stevenson, Edmonton City Councillor for Ward O-day’min. Stevenson, a planner by profession, admits she was skeptical at first.

But today that’s all changed. There’s “greater and greater recognition that this is how we need to be building communities. We’ve got a great head start in Blatchford,” says Stevenson, standing on Yorke Mews, a pedestrian-only street in Blatchford.