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After slashing energy use in its own buildings by 20 per cent, the City of Sydney is working out how much energy could be saved across all buildings in Sydney.
The City has signed a contract with energy experts pitt&sherry and Exergy Australia to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions that could be cut by city-wide energy efficiency measures.
Lord Mayor Clover Moore said it would be the most comprehensive assessment of the energy efficiency potential of the city’s building stock ever undertaken.
Another successful Casey–Cardinia business breakfast was held yesterday at the Cardinia Cultural Centre, with 200 people from the region’s business community in attendance.
Professor Tim Flannery, one of Australia’s most respected environmentalists and a world renowned expert on climate change, was the event’s guest speaker.
The Chief Commissioner of the Australian Climate Commission and former Australian of the Year spoke about the urgent need for action on climate change, saying its impacts were already being felt across the country, including in the Casey Cardinia region.
Recognition, retention, enhancement and preservation of historic assets - dating back to indigenous cultural heritage - has been confirmed as a priority for Brimbank City Council with the recent endorsement of the Heritage Strategy 2013-2015.
Specific sites like 19th century cottages, Edwardian villas and pieces of Sunshine’s industrial heritage are identified; along with larger areas including unique subdivision designs, housing estates built for ICI, HV McKay, Commonwealth Munitions and the railways, dry stone walls, St Albans ‘half-houses’, trees and gardens.
Gosford City Council is leading the way in floodplain risk management planning, with the official launch of its Managing Flood Risk DVD today. This official launch follows the industry release of this vital planning tool at the 2013 National Floodplain Management Association (FMA) Conference at Tweed Heads late last month.
Created by Council’s Integrated Planning Unit, the management tool is an industry first and the result of the overwhelming response received to a ‘Virtual Field Trip’ designed by Council when it hosted the FMA Conference in February 2010.
Council’s Interim Director Environment and Planning, Eddie Love, said the resource was developed to assist communities and government agencies in understanding and managing the risks of potential future flooding emergencies within all communities across Australia.