What's Happening Now?
The City of Fredericton has been proactively reducing its impact on the environment since the 1990s with initiatives such as retrofitting municipal buildings and switching to water-based traffic paint to reduce volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Now we're on the path to become a national leader in promoting Green City management. We are undertaking a number of environmental initiatives to both reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to promote and encourage everyone in the community to reduce their impact on the planet.
Environmental initiatives currently underway in the City of Fredericton are:
- Municipal Building Retrofit
- LED Traffic Lights
- LCD Computer Monitors
- Green Seal Purchasing Program
- Backyard Composting
- Topsoil Production
- Anti-Idling Initiative
- Hybrid Vehicles
- Vehicles Purchasing Program
- Water-based Traffic Paint
- Streetlight Power Reduction
- Landfill Gas Capture
- Trails/ Bikeways Master Plan
- Active Transportation Plan
You can find more detailed information about each of these initiatives at the City of Fredericton website. Click here to read up on our environmental programs. Or to see our positive results read our Corporate Inventory & Action Plan for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions which was accepted by the governing body Federation of Canadian Muncipalities (FCM) in Spring 2006.
Information about the Active Transportation Plan can also be found here.
