Our Vision, Mission, and Goals
Vision
Corvallis is a community in which the needs of the present are met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It is a flourishing and thriving city with a vibrant economy that respects, restores, and cares for the community of life.
Mission
To promote an ecologically, economically, and socially healthy city and county. We will achieve our mission by using the Sustainability Guiding Objectives and a democratic, highly participative decision-making process.
Sustainability Guiding Objectives – A framework for decision-making based on the four Natural Step system conditions for a sustainable society
Our community will:
- Reduce and ultimately eliminate our community’s contribution to fossil fuel dependence and to wasteful use of scarce metals and minerals. Use renewable resources whenever possible.
- Reduce and ultimately eliminate our community’s contribution to dependence upon persistent chemicals and wasteful use of synthetic substances. Use biologically safe products whenever possible.
- Reduce and ultimately eliminate our community’s contribution to encroachment upon nature (e.g., land, water, wildlife, forests, soil, ecosystems). Protect natural ecosystems.
- Support people’s capacity to meet their basic needs fairly and efficiently.
Goals
- The goals for the Corvallis Sustainability Coalition are:
- To accelerate sustainability in our community by working together more effectively.
- To create a community-wide sustainability action plan that will be adopted by City Council within two years.
- To encourage the city and the county to adopt and implement the Sustainability Guiding Objectives.
