Sustainability Street – local communities, local action

The central idea of the Sustainability Street Approach is that people get together as local communities, learn a bit about ecological sustainability and then do what they can to encourage, assist or 'teach' other individuals or other communities to join the groundswell for ecological sustainability.

Developed by environmental educators, Vox Bandicoot, in creative collaboration with Environs Australia, Sustainability Street is helping people transform their homes and neighbourhoods into sustainable green environments.

Over twenty communities in Victoria and two in Wollongong NSW have so far adopted the Sustainability Street approach.

The program works on 2 levels :

• Sustainability in the home
• Sustainability in the community

The word 'street' is just a concept and refers to any geographically or socially connected group of people.

A Sustainability Street community could be made up of people from down the street and across the road, or it could be made up of people from an existing group - as long as the people involved want to get together to help create a better environment in which to live.

Communities are informed about the program at information sessions and are invited to participate.

Participating communities are then guided through a process where they learn about Sustainability and learn how to organise themselves as a group.

This 6 month training period is loosely organised around 4 stages called mulch (learn), sow (plan), grow (do) and harvest (teach).

Stories from participating communities and other information are available on the Sustainability Street website.

The website contains:

• List of participating communities
• Sustainability Street stories
• Discussion Forums
• Grants Calendar
• Events calendar

The Sustainocyclopedia can also be found on the website.

This resource offers:

• 101,000 ways to save the environment
• sustainability definitions
• sustainability tools
• games to play at community gatherings
• building social capital

Follow this link for Sustainability Street (opens in a new browser window)

For further information

Contact	:	Vox Bandicoot Pty Ltd
Address	:	228 Kerr Street Fitzroy Victoria 3065
Phone	:	+61 3 9416 1066
Fax	:	+61 3 9417 2859
Email	:	info@voxbandicoot.com.au

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