Sustainability

We are committed to making our community sustainable for future generations.

Green Business Programs    

  Green Homes Programs

Learn about current programs available

to help you make your business more sustainable.

Learn about current programs available

to help you make your home more sustainable.

Victoria's Sustainability Vision

Victoria, as a community and municipal corporation, is an urban sustainability leader inspiring innovation, pride and progress towards greater ecological integrity, livability, economic vitality, and community resiliency confronting the changes facing society and the planet today and for generations to come.

Sustainability is about building a better, more resilient city for future generations. Sustainability is based on three inter-related concepts:

  • Social Well-being and Livability: the social and cultural assets of the community that create and celebrate quality of life, and support human health, security, and overall well-being.
  • Environmental Integrity: the ability to sustain and renew the health of the natural environment and its ongoing capacity to produce resources necessary to urban life.
  • Economic Vitality: the ongoing capacity to generate and renew the skills, finances, and productivity of the community providing the means to support quality of life and realize individual and community aspirations.

Victoria's Sustainability Action Plan

Learn about what the City of Victoria is doing in the next three years to move closer towards our sustainability vision.

The Sustainability Action Plan has three focus areas: Reduce, Transform and Thrive.

Reduce: Reducing waste and emissions and increasing efficiency.

Transform: Leveraging market forces and transforming decision making.

Thrive: Creating a livable city for everyone.

Here is a summary of the Sustainability Action Plan.

Full details of the Sustainability Action Plan are available here.

 

Victoria Sustainability Framework

Read about the Victoria Sustainability Framework .

In the News

ipolitics article: July 4, 2012: Sustainability 2.0: Regenerative Communities