It's not the sort of thing you put on the welcome sign on the outskirts of town. It's not the sort of thing you put on the welcome sign on the outskirts of town. "Selkirk: boring and proud of it." But when it comes to showing municipal leadership on climate change, flashy is not part of the equation in the community of about 10,000 located 40 kilometres north of Winnipeg. "I believe my job is to make climate change boring and routine because routine gets done," says Selkirk’s chief administrative officer Duane Nicol. "Boring gets done." Nicol has been Selkirk's CAO seven years. In that time, he's made an effort to integrate climate-change thinking into every aspect of the city's operations. Preparing the city and creating policy for a warmer future is everybody's job, he says.