The City of Edmonton’s Environmental Strategic Plan
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• Aligning Market Prices with Sustainability Goals: In
order to achieve the sustainability and resilience goals put forward in this plan, market prices will need to support this shift (see Objective 3.2). Effective use of pricing tools will be crucial to The Way We Green’s overall success.
Sustainability Approaches
• Leading by example
Successful implementation of The Way We Green will require the City to lead by example, adopting the high standards of sustainable living it wants to encourage throughout the community.
• Collaboration
Achieving sustainability and resiliency will require all facets of Edmonton society to work together for the benefit of the whole. The City will need to be a central facilitator/coordinator bringing government representatives, citizens, and organizations together to create a culture of collaboration that encourages innovation, sharing of resources, and shared accountability. (See Appendix D for more on this subject).
• Innovation
The City will need to be an innovation leader, continually studying, testing, and applying new technologies and approaches to make Edmonton more sustainable and resilient.
• Inspired Leadership
Achieving sustainability and resiliency will require the City to demonstrate inspired leadership. This will include encouraging and empowering community leaders to do the same.
• A clear definition of progress
Sustainable communities measure progress by improvements in the health and wellbeing of their citizens, environment, and economy. The City will need to establish, implement, and maintain a broad set of measures for this purpose.
How Far? How Fast? In order to manage its sustainability and resiliency challenges effectively, the City of Edmonton will need to adopt new processes, tools, and approaches. Much of this structure can be developed over a two to three year time frame.