Project Ideas
Sceg members ideas for 2010 were spilling over at our recent Planning Session.
Here is the list of ideas, just waiting for legs to get up and running: register your interest or send in your idea to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it The green highlighted ideas with contacts are projects already underway.
AWARENESS:PROMOTION
Promote climate change messages (through bumper stickers, banners on lights in Gilbert St, etc.)
Hold SCEG stalls at the Cowrie Market (awareness, action, activities etc). contact Jill Hyslop
Seek funding to provide advertising boards at some local football grounds.
Contribute regular articles to local newspapers; merge/combine articles with other sustainability groups. contact Caroline Hawkins
Increase SCEG membership.
Engage members to become active.
RAISING AWARENESS ACTIVITIES
• Take the message to local community through SCEG presentations.
• Promote a Surf Coast wind farm.
• Hold a sustainable art / living festival.
• Organise another film season – and show them right across the shire. Contact ?
• Forum Ideas: Ethical Investments contact Graeme Stockton; how to move away from brown coal; sustainable local communities, a 3228 Sustainability forum; sustainable community partnerships.
• Encourage people to put their superannuation into ‘Ethical Funds’.
• Repower Anglesea series of forums. Contact Graeme Stockton
• A Carbon Calculator contact Graeme Stockton.
• Put up a large map of region and invite residents ‘show-&-tell’ by marking their place with coloured pins to represent e.g.; solar hot water systems, PV panels, green power purchase. This may encourage others to get involved and will assess how our community is doing.
PRACTICAL ACTION:
PROJECTS
Sustainable Futures Torquay/Jan Juc 2040 project
FOOD
• Form local food co-ops run by members for bulk buying essential groceries, fruit and veges. Locals could bring surplus home produce to swap/sell. Could be a weekly market or organised through community centres.
• Promote FOIBLES: Food Out In Backyard, Less Emissions = Sustainability. Garden in a box. Contact Jill Hyslop
• Encourage veganism to lower methane emissions.
• Flyer for local food producers.
TRANSPORT
• Ask companies (eg; Rip Curl) to organise bus sharing for employees.
• Set up a website for car sharing. Erect car sharing shelters like bus stops and close to car parking areas.
RENEWABLE ENERGY
• Build a demo solar / wind project in a prominent location, eg. town centre, surf club, sports ground.
• Organise an energy project for the local community eg: lighting / power generation for a public building; a smaller wind / solar system to power a surf club.
• Make actions easy – solar power; water
• Plan the Big Picture for renewable energy in the Surf Coast Shire.
• Proceed with wind farm plans for the Surf Coast Shire.
• Have a renewable energy target for our community.
• Ask council to stock take adoption of solar hot water, then make targets to increase take-up and facilitate this.
PLASTIC BAG FREE CAMPIAGN
• Instigate cellulose bags for supermarkets eg; bags made from food starch.
• Push for ‘plastic bag free’ communities, as in Anglesea.
ADVOCACY:
NETWORKING
• Network with other climate change action groups, regionally and nationally. Contact Caroline Hawkins
• Find a Deakin intern to research and complete: audit of other Surf Coast Shire groups with potential for collaboration, partnerships and further action.
• Training for public speaking to support advocacy work. Contact Caroline Hawkins
• Make actions easy – postcards for advocacy, etc.
• Influence local government to bulk buy green power to resell to ratepayers.
ELECTION STRATEGY IDEAS Federal and State
• Become more ‘political’ to influence governments and corporations (individuals/households can only achieve 20% of change needed to save the species).
• Write letters from SCEG regularly to politicians.
• 2 elections next year: ask each candidate where they stand on climate action, and publish it.
• Make renewable energy top of our local politicians’ election promises.
• Have a lobbying plan for next federal election. Issues: gross feed in tariff; no compensation for polluters in Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme; target 350 parts per million CO² in the atmosphere.
• Maximise SCEGs membership energy by coming up with great ideas that politicians could act upon and encouraging politicians to act.
JOINING INTERNATIONAL / NATIONAL CAMPAIGNS
• Promote individual action ’10:10’ – 10% reduction in your emissions in/by 2010 – with great ideas how to start @1010.org.
• Be part of a National campaign for 100% renewable energy