Many thanks to Claudia and Jason and family for use of their home for the belated formal launch of our climate project on Sunday (August 30).
We were blessed with a brief break in the continuous wet weather (as NSW sizzles in mid-Summer temperatures, breaking all records for August).
Here is a replica of the little garden signs that participating households will be displaying in their front yards.
This comes with a commitment: to reduce the household’s carbon footprint by 5% minimum per year. We aim to do everything we can to ensure that this commitment can be easily met, and that task will keep us very busy for the coming year!
And thanks too to Nel Smit, a community representative on Tasmania’s Climate Action Council, who launched the project for us on Sunday.
These, slightly larger Climate Friendly – Street signs will be placed in strategic locations.
As the media release below suggest – we would love to see this signage take off and become replicated throughout the state as communities become empowered to turn their lives around for the sake of their children’s future.
MEDIA RELEASE
“Yes we can!” – Tasmanian Climate Challenge
A southern Tasmania community is challenging all Tasmanian householders to beat soaring energy costs by slashing their energy consumption.
Launching its state government funded ‘climate connect’ project, the Waterworks Valley Community says all householders can rise to the challenge and they can do it with a sense of fun.
Project coordinator Mr Chris Harries said rather than view the climate change crisis with despondency, Tasmanians should see the creation of a low-energy future as a living adventure and a personal challenge.
“Street-by-street, community-by-community, suburb-by-suburb members of the public can challenge each other to outperform everyone else. We have already seen some outstanding examples in every corner of our state.”
“Tasmanians can defy rising energy costs whilst helping the state reduce its carbon footprint”, Mr Harries said
The Waterworks community, working alongside business group EcoTasmania Inc, is conducting the pilot project in the South Hobart / Dynnyrne area to find out how households can overcome the barriers that prevent them from reducing their carbon footprints.
“We know that over 90 percent of the population is very concerned about climate change, but householders find themselves confronted by a range of psychological, practical and other barriers.”
Mr Harries said the Australian public is being inundated with well-intentioned advice on how to save energy but much of this effort is of little value because it has not taken into account the ‘drivers’ that motivate people to act on their concerns.
The project aims to use the information to assist communities throughout Tasmania overcome barriers to shrinking their collective carbon footprint.
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