Eco-Innovative Cities

The Eco-innovative Cities project was active during 2005–06.

According to the Melbourne 2030 Plan, metropolitan Melbourne will grow by up to one million people in the next 30 years, with the establishment of an estimated 620,000 extra households.

The Eco-Innovative Cities project explored the knowledge and tools required to manage this growth through the incorporation of sustainable development principles into council service delivery mechanisms.

Project Partners

Sustainability Victoria, ICLEI Oceania, and the Australian Centre for Science, Innovation and Society (ACSIS) have formed a partnership, bringing together their organisational knowledge and expertise. This partnership supports Victorian councils to identify and explore opportunities to improve resource consumption in their own operations and within their municipalities.

Participating Councils

: Partners and Participants

The councils participating in the Eco-Innovative Cities project are:

Sustainable Consumption

This project set out to challenge the models of delivery of council operations, and planning and decision-making processes through demanding greater consideration of sustainability principles.

The project aimed to move councils from a focus on waste and recycling to a consideration of how council service delivery and purchasing, and community consumption patterns can be influenced and changed by focussing on resource usage.

This project worked closely with CCP Plus councils in Victoria to examine council issues, such as:

achieving operational efficiency gains, without minimising service delivery;
preparing for future population movements in a resource and cost effective way without compromising environmental outcomes;
promoting sustainable development and triple bottom line principles to enhance council operations, planning and decision-making processes; and
preparing for infrastructure changes through relevant long-term planning.

Information on participating councils' progress was available on the EIC Wiki webpages, a communication tool used while the project was active. The wiki also provided project participants with a means to input information and share ideas.

For more information on the Eco-Innovative Cities project and related materials, please contact EcoInnovativeCities-anz@iclei.org.

Project Outcomes

For full details of the outcomes of the incremental and re-design workshops, please click here. [Word doc, 1MB]

Cities for Climate Protection® (CCP®) Australia: implementing greenhouse action through a collaboration between the Australian Government and ICLEI Oceania. The CCP® Australia Program is funded by the Australian Government.