Share your Climate Commitment

Saanich residents are taking action! Check out the climate committments shared below after completing the activities in the Resident’s Climate Action Guidebook.

To share your climate committment, contact Sustainability with your current and target GHG emissions, your three point action plan, and your ideas for community action. Let us know if you'd like to be anonymous or to include your name. 

To learn about the climate actions the District is taking, see Progress Reports and Leading by Example. For more in-depth stories about community climate action in Saanich, check out the climate champions page. 

To learn about the One Planet Action Plans that organizations and businesses in Saanich are committing to, visit the One Planet Saanich website.

Individual Commitments

Current yearly personal GHG emissions from climate commitments (in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent)

  • Biggest: 15.30 tonnes
  • Smallest: 1.52 tonnes
  • Average: 4.4 tonnes

Targeted GHG emissions from climate commitments:

  • Biggest: 14.00 tonnes
  • Smallest: 1 tonne
  • Average: 3.3 tonnes

Select 3-point personal climate plans:

K. Lindsay

  1. Bike more
  2. Have the house assessed for insulation
  3. Increase food garden beds.

Trevor4saanich (Barry)

  1. Measure odometer changes on my fossil fuel vehicles mileage
  2. Google distance my cycling
  3. Ensure a 5:1 ration for #carbonNeutral mode.

Anonymous Saanich resident

  1. Eat less cheese
  2. Keep not eating meat
  3. Walk or take transit whenever possible

Anonymous Saanich resident

  1. Eat less packaged foods
  2. Grow vegetables
  3. Consider buying hybrid or electric car

Anonymous Saanich resident

  1. Choose more trips by bicycle or walking
  2. Reduce the amount of garbage I produce
  3. Eat more sustainable food (specifically less beef)

Anonymous Saanich resident

  1. Reduce the amount of product that comes in excessive packaging
  2. Buy used items if possible,
  3. Waste less

Anonymous Saanich resident

  1. Buy more local food
  2. Use less plastic
  3. Speak to landlords about climate-friendly home energy

Anonymous Saanich resident

  1. Ride more, drive less
  2. Grow more in my garden
  3. More compostable waste, less packaging

Alfredo

  1. Waste less food
  2. Travel less by airplane
  3. Take shorter showers

Kathryn

  1. Reduce car journeys
  2. Less food waste
  3. Buy push bike

Libbi S.

  1. Reduce travelling in a gas vehicle
  2. Reduce cheese in my diet
  3. Install a heat pump in the house

Barb T.

  1. Walk and cycle more and use car less
  2. Reduce use of gas fireplace
  3. Consume less cheese

Deveilyau Tymusko

  1. Continue to walk/cycle as my mode of transportation
  2. Re-use and recycle all products and limit garbage waste
  3. Purchase and use only what is environmentally friendly and sustainable

Steve Carter

  1. Replace 2 vehicles with EV
  2. Add 10.4kW of solar to the house
  3. Replace home lights with LEDs

Eve Layman

  1. Reduce food waste
  2. Focus on low carbon foods
  3. Walk more

Anonymous Saanich resident

  1. Reduce meat consumption
  2. Reduce food waste
  3. Increase bike commuting

Bodie Elliott

  1. Reduce travel for work (find video-conferencing options as appropriate)
  2. Reduce food waste by planning better
  3. Eat less meat

Murray Leslie

  1. Walk or transit more
  2. Eat less beef
  3. Decrease plastic consumption

Rachael Westgate

  1. Go vegetarian
  2. Shop locally for produce
  3. Travel closer to home by air

Arnie Seibel

  1. Hybrid vehicle
  2. More vegetables, fish and chicken, less eating out
  3. Less distant travel

Gillian Angrove

  1. Get rid of our car and committ to biking and car share only
  2. Buying local food more frequently
  3. Reducing waste and plastics

Gair-Levee Family

  1. Keep flight and personal truck travel closer to COVID levels, as the situation evolves to the "new normal"
  2. Start collecting rainwater and adjust gardens for better drought resistance
  3. Continue to reduce food waste

Anonymous Saanich resident

  1. More plant based and local food
  2. More bicycling less driving
  3. Better home insulation and windows
Anonymous Saanich resident
  1. Cycle more
  2. Reduce food waste
  3. Reduce hydro
Samantha C.
  1. Bike instead of commuting by car or bus.
  2. Buy used items instead of brand new.
  3. Buy less food, to reduce food waste.
S. Smith
  1. Reduce driving
Andy C.
  1. Ride my bike even more to work and errands
  2. Improve weatherstripping in the house
  3. Eat more chicken and less beef
Anonymous Saanich resident
  1. Reduce car use by 25 %
  2. Reduce flight by 50%
  3. Reduce meat consumption by 25%
Nick McGeachie
  1. Throw away less edible/expired food
  2. Walk/ride a bike more for transportation
  3. Grow more of my own food in my garden

Community Climate Action Ideas:

  • Plant a garden and share vegetables with neighbors
  • Encourage boulevard gardens, create repair cafés and make cycling safer.
  • Share info about the different lifestyle choices and how it impacts GHG emissions
  • Promote veganism
  • To engage more with government/ industry as well as the University community.
  • Encourage the EV community by contributing to public EV awareness events, attending with my electric car and engaging with the public
  • Support neighbours by creating little free library and opening the dialogue to share resources such as tools and other items
  • Encourage/incentivize neighbourhood fruit and veg sharing or commerce programs - we see so much wasted food in neighbourhood fruit trees, for example, and we work with neighbours to help reduce this where possible, and share with others. Centralized options could help neighbourhoods that are less "tight" between people, but could benefit others. 
  • Teaching people how to grow more of their own food at home.
  • Better incentives for businesses to use non-single use plastic utensils, shopping bags, packaging
  • Encourage more bikelane development
  • Convincing my apartment complex to get compost bins.
  • More incentives for electric cars and bikes
  • More infrastructure support for community - neighbourhood sharing. 
  • Better e-bike rebates
  • Further grow oil/gas to heat pump incentives where ever possible (replacing our oil furnace with a central heat pump saved us HUGE dollars in annual operating costs, and is FAR more comfortable overall!)
  • Encourage / incentivize neighbourhood fruit and veg sharing or commerce programs - we see so much wasted food in neighbourhood fruit trees, for example, and we work with neighbours to help reduce this where possible, and share with others.  Centralized options could help neighbourhoods that are less "tight" between people, but could benefit others.
  • Support electric vehicle recharging sites. 
  • Encourage the installation of Ductless heat pumps.
  • Support neighbours by creating little free library and opening the dialogue to share resources such as tools and other items 
  • Support Greater Victoria Active Transportation plan.
  • Find a better way to recycle hard and soft plastics!
  • Provide incentives and guidance for backyard gardens 
  • Encourage the EV community by contributing to public EV awareness events, attending with my electric car and engaging with the public.