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Reducing Our Carbon Footprint
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Reducing our carbon footprint is thought by many to be important for a sustainable future. This involves reducing the amount of fuel and energy we consume in travelling for work, education, buying or accessing food supplies, other necessities and services. If you could access these things locally our carbon footprint would be reduced. The 2040 Project offers an opportunity to plan for a more sustainable future and reduce our carbon footprint by offering employment, local access to food and other necessities, public transport and access to locally based services. Is this something that is important to you? How could we achieve it?
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Comment 1 25 Aug 2010, 5:00 PM
I think there are lots of positive things that are happenning currently in our community such as the Danawa Community garden and the local farmers market. We could take this further with a programs to encourage more people to start their own vegetable gardens and sharing produce. May be as a community we could have a campaign to ride bikes when travelling local and try and reduce our use of cars.
Comment 1.1 26 Aug 2010, 6:59 PM
OK, something tells me this is not the first time I am going to have to make this point as ignorance so often prevails, but I am a persistent type and love nothing more than the sound of my own figure tap-tap-tapping.
So here goes.
For the Minister to approve Amendment C37, the good Councillors of the Surf Coast Shire, had to approve it first. So, in the spirit of truth, justice and the Surf Coast way, lets get some cold, hard facts on the table before we all run off blaming the Minister.
In the pursuit of this hoary little more…
Comment 1.2 27 Aug 2010, 9:14 PM
In terms of addressing food miles and linking local buyers and sellers(as the introductory paragraph by the Adminsitrator seems to focus on)I agree that having local organisations like Danawa, the farmers market and foreshore market are great ways to encourage local producers.
And there is the food swap at the community garden every fortnight so that people can swap the excess veggies from their garden.
The community garden could also be a great venue to demonstrate sustainable technologies and stuff - I'm imagining a central venue where all the conservation/sustainability groups could have info and meetings.
On the wider topic of 'Reducing more…
Comment 1.3 28 Aug 2010, 8:29 AM
Hi Local girl,
Agree totally, but we don't need 30,000 people in Torquay to make these things happen - indeed, in my view, adding thousands more people to Torquay is likely to inhibit the implementation of these great ideas.
Comment 2 15 Sep 2010, 2:22 PM
This is totally arse-about. "With growth, we can be more sustainable???" Likewise,"with growth we can have better facilities".
Should be: lets get more sustainable now, and see future growth as part of our sustainable plan.
The number of people is not the issue. The lack of real sustainability planning is.
Comment 3 12 Oct 2010, 6:25 PM
If we have no infrastructure or services to support our current population, how would we ever sustain council's proposed city the size of Mildura or Warrnambool here (30000 residents)???? By adding another 20 000 residents to our current hotch potch of council planning attempts we would possibly blow our footprint off the planet. There is basically no employment here for professional people, unless you are a GP or have a small business. Most have to travel to Geelong or Melbourne for work, adding to greenhouse gas emissions, even if you do catch the train to Melb; the bus services are more…
