Our Sustainability Stories
The City is working on a range of sustainability initiatives under the eight themes in our Sustainability Strategy. This page features stories on how we are implementing our strategy.
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Greening Our CityGrowing our Urban Forest
Across the CBD from Wellington Square through the East End and along Roe Street, we’re incorporating green into all our projects. Streets, parks and your public spaces are being revitalised with more trees, plants and shrubs, developing beautiful, shady spaces that deliver benefits for city liveability.
Five facts about Perth’s urban forest
Read up on the City’s stunning trees here. What's impressive, our urban forest statistics do not include the expansive Kings Park, one of the world’s largest inner-city parks.
How Perth is reducing its water consumption
The City’s cleverly targeted water management has saved 200 million litres of groundwater annually. That’s 80 Olympic size swimming pools of water each year!
Six sustainable solutions for city apartments.
Make your apartment more sustainable, reduce your carbon footprint, and you could also save on your bills. Here’s how to live more efficiently.
Sustainable solar boost for the City of Light
A network of 256 solar panels has been installed on top of the City of Perth Pier Street carpark to produce and store enough energy to cover more than half the carpark’s total energy requirements.
Sustainability is one of our strategic pillars
There are plenty of exciting plans in the pipeline to continue making our City even more sustainable. Although we’re well on the way (our projects speak for themselves) it’s a long and busy road. There’s so much more we can all do together.