Reality Check

Manitoba released Tomorrow Now: Manitoba's Green Plan June 15, 2012. Tomorrow Now is an eight-year strategic plan for protecting the environment while ensuring a prosperous and environmentally conscious economy.

The plan sets out actions around the following five key priorities:

1. Good for Our Economy - Good For Our Environment
2. Changing Our Ways For A Changing Climate
3. Safeguarding our Water, Air and Land
4. Nurturing Our Living World
5. Simple Individual Choices - Big Results

Tomorrow Now is not a single plan, but instead calls for the development of up to 16 new environmental plans or strategies over the next eight years.

Examples of strategies/plans include:

• Green Economy Action Plan
• Energy Strategy
• New Climate Plan
• Peatlands Stewardship Strategy
• New Water Conservation Strategy
• Eco-Tourism Strategy
• New Manitoba Boreal Plan
• Moose Action Plans

The public has until October 31, 2012 to provide comments on the new plan.

• Tomorrow Now: Manitoba's Green Plan
• Submit feedback on Tomorrow Now: Manitoba's Green Plan
• July 6, 2012 Manitoba Wildlands coverage