To read the plan click here.
The local community and our resident sustainability expert Michael Mobbs have worked with The City of Sydney to explore viable options for creating sustainable suburbs in Sydney.
The current project that is under way in Chippendale gives people the opportunity to tour Michael’s ‘Sustainable House’ and see first hand how for 15 years he has used rain water, recycled treated sewage, harvested the sun’s energy to achieve energy and water bills of less than $300 a year.
Here is a basic outline of the plan:
- Reduce energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions
- Cool the suburb (e.g. increasing the tree canopy, using different construction materials in our roads, footways and buildings)
- Introduce more energy efficient street and footway lighting
- Harvest and reuse rainwater
- Establish additional road and verge gardens
- Increase the use of car share
- Provide improved access and safety for pedestrians and cyclists
- Grow more local food and increasing biodiversity.
Like what you read? Want to help to make it all a reality? Take action now and email Mayor Clover Moore to ask her to make the Plan a reality soon! - It is easy and will only take a few seconds simply click on the link: SustainableChippendale.good.do. Have your say!
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