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Corporate Internal Environmental Initiatives

The City recognizes the importance of maintaining our healthy environment. Although many Departments have implemented their own environmental projects, The Environmental Initiatives section offers support by facilitating and coordinating corporate environmental initiatives.

These are some of the initiatives we have undertaken to reduce our corporation's environmental footprint and become more environmentally friendly.

  1. Development of a corporate Green Team
  2. Organic dandelion control
  3. Organic turf management at City Hall Park
  4. Integrated Pest Management
  5. Installing motion sensor lights at Emergency Services facilities
  6. Installing solar photovoltaic cells through the Alberta Solar Showcase
  7. LEED Certification at the new Civic Yards
  8. Bulb Eater fluorescent light bulb crusher
  9. Spill Response Procedure and staff training video
  10. Source Control Program
  11. Clean diesel buses
  12. Replace traffic lights with LEDs
  13. Green Power at City-run facilities
  14. Discussion Paper on Environmental Initiatives (2004)

For more information on The City's corporate environmental programs, contact Environmental Services either by phone at 403-342-8750, Monday through Friday between 7:30 AM and 4:30 PM, or by email at environmentalservices@reddeer.ca.