Guelph Environmental Leadership – Partnering Toward Environmental Sustainability

The Guelph-Wellington community is well known across Canada as an
environmental leader. Accordingly, citizens have made great strides to
protect ecological habitat, ensure safe and careful water use, reduce
air pollution and uphold recycling excellence among other actions.

Current
accomplishments show that progress is being made, however, there remain
significant gaps. Most efforts have a low profile, are volunteer-based,
met with funding shortfalls and not well planned amongst environmental
activities and organizations. Ultimately, environmental progress relies
on an educated and engaged community.

For
these reasons a group of citizens incorporated Guelph Environmental
Leadership (GEL) in 2002. The Board of GEL comes from diverse
professions to stimulate activities at the community level and heighten
support for the groups, businesses, schools and citizens making a
difference. GEL’s approach encourages progress toward resilient
ecology, healthy people, reduced costs and lasting resource use.

VISION

Healthy Behaviours

The
community will be using more and more environmentally sound products,
priorities will be known and overall well-being will be measureable as
a result on positive improvements.

Strong Leadership

The
community will be participating, exemplifying leadership and local
groups will have the capacity to deliver activities and ensure
partnering on projects.

Broad Involvement

The
community will have new resources and tools to engage as many citizens
as possible and financial support will be sufficient to remove
obstacles to awareness and progress.

Tangible Progress

The
community will be working together to undertake responsible management
of the environment and efforts toward environmental sustainability will
be permanent at the community level.

MANDATE

Guelph
Environmental Leadership (GEL) provides a cross sector collaboration to
stimulate partnering among local environmental groups, heighten support
for environmental improvement and engage widespread participation in
sustainable behaviours – through a proactive strategy that is
measureable over the long-term.

Visit the web site: http://guelphenvironmentalleadership.ca