This document provides an overview and update on Boroondara City Council's Low Carbon Future Strategy. It discusses progress made on the strategy's corporate and community action plans from 2009-2012, including emissions reductions achieved. It also outlines proposed new action plans and priorities for 2012-2016. The community forum aims to seek input on upcoming initiatives and explore opportunities for collaboration to further the strategy's goals of reducing emissions and increasing sustainable living.
Renewable and low carbon energy capacity study for the East of Englandcrifcambs
Richard Summers from The Landscape Partnership and Andrew Turton from AECOM shared their findings from work commissioned by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to identify the potential for renewable energy in the East of England. This study highlighted the renewable energy resources for Cambridgeshire.
Presented to Councillors on 28 September 2011.
Renewable and low carbon energy capacity study for the East of Englandcrifcambs
Richard Summers from The Landscape Partnership and Andrew Turton from AECOM shared their findings from work commissioned by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to identify the potential for renewable energy in the East of England. This study highlighted the renewable energy resources for Cambridgeshire.
Presented to Councillors on 28 September 2011.
Energy Development Corporation, a renewable energy company in the Philippines and operator of the world's largest vertically integrated geothermal project discusses best practice in sustainability reporting at the 2nd National Conference on Sustainability and Reporting held on Nov. 29, 2012 at the University of Asia and the Pacific.
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Ontario's Green Energy Act and FiT Program
Presented by Jason Chee-Aloy of the OPA at the Green Energy Act Finance Forum on Friday January 29, 2010
For more information visit http://www.marsdd.com/greenenergyforum
Learn about:
a) The current federal and state incentives,
b) The interaction between federal and state incentives, and
c) Pending or proposed changes to the current incentive landscape.
The presentation will also provide an overview of the Massachuetts Technology Collaboratives commercial project financial calculator.
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Presention for Ecobuild 2011 by Julie Codet-Boisse, Head of project delivery at BioRegional
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Presentation made for the students of BA History, University of the Philippines. Discusses the interplay of economics, energy use and environmental impact shaped the development of geothermal energy use in the country.
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O Workshop é dirigido a todos os decisores que influenciam a qualidade de construção do meio edificado.
A inscrição para o Workshop é gratuita sendo pre-inscrição individual e obrigatoria.
Light and heat from the sun is the most abundant energy source on earth.The solar energy that hits our planet’s surface in one hour is about equal to the amount of energy consumed by all human activities in a year. Moreover, electricity generated by solar power is emission-free and can help mitigate climate change as well as reduce our dependence on finite carbon-based energy sources.
ABB offers a range of solutions that not just help capture the sun’s rays in the most effective manner but also help achieve grid parity.
North East Bicycle Corridor linking Chandle Hiqhway and Alexandra ParadeGreenlivingpedia
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Energy Development Corporation, a renewable energy company in the Philippines and operator of the world's largest vertically integrated geothermal project discusses best practice in sustainability reporting at the 2nd National Conference on Sustainability and Reporting held on Nov. 29, 2012 at the University of Asia and the Pacific.
In a presentation to Clean Energy Action in May 2010, Charles McGlashan shared the experience of Marin County, CA in taking control of its own energy supply, a challenge now facing Boulder, CO. As a member of the Marin County Board of Supervisors, McGlashan has been instrumental in the creation of Marin County Energy, the entity that has worked to provide the community with renewable energy options and local power.
Ontario's Green Energy Act and FiT Program
Presented by Jason Chee-Aloy of the OPA at the Green Energy Act Finance Forum on Friday January 29, 2010
For more information visit http://www.marsdd.com/greenenergyforum
Learn about:
a) The current federal and state incentives,
b) The interaction between federal and state incentives, and
c) Pending or proposed changes to the current incentive landscape.
The presentation will also provide an overview of the Massachuetts Technology Collaboratives commercial project financial calculator.
What does one planet living look like and how can you embed it into your retr...BioRegional
An overview of the one planet challenge - looking at using resources sustainably - and how this can apply to and benefit your retrofit project. Particularly aimed at housing associations and local authorities.
Presention for Ecobuild 2011 by Julie Codet-Boisse, Head of project delivery at BioRegional
An overview of the EECBG Program, metrics, and successful EECBG projects. The metrics section was contributed by Rahil Modi, Energy Engineer. The Performance Contracting section was contributed by Trevor Friedeberg.
Presentation made for the students of BA History, University of the Philippines. Discusses the interplay of economics, energy use and environmental impact shaped the development of geothermal energy use in the country.
O enfoque deste Workshop está na demonstração das oportunidades de intervenção que resultam da actual conjuntura no âmbito da CERTIFICAÇÃO ENERGÉTICA E DA QUALIDADE DO AR EM EDIFÍCIOS, dando relevo à Descentralização da Produção de Recursos Renováveis à Escala do Edificado e debatendo a integração dos novos conceitos “utilizador-produtor”, “redes inteligentes e bi-direccionais” e “armazenamento descentralizado de recursos” à escala urbana.
O Workshop é dirigido a todos os decisores que influenciam a qualidade de construção do meio edificado.
A inscrição para o Workshop é gratuita sendo pre-inscrição individual e obrigatoria.
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ABB offers a range of solutions that not just help capture the sun’s rays in the most effective manner but also help achieve grid parity.
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A direct arterial shared path built from Chandler Highway where the Darebin, Yarra, and Anniversary Trails converge through to Alexandra Parade. Presentation to Linking Melbourne Authority Planning Panel
Rail Corridors and the Principal Bicycle Network (Parsons Brinckerhoff) p51-80Greenlivingpedia
Rail Corridors and the Principal Bicycle Network Report by Parsons Brinckerhoff).
Commissioned by Department of Transport, State Government of Victoria.
February 2012. Pages 51 - 80
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Commissioned by Department of Transport, State Government of Victoria.
February 2012. Pages 1-50
Succession “Losers”: What Happens to Executives Passed Over for the CEO Job?
By David F. Larcker, Stephen A. Miles, and Brian Tayan
Stanford Closer Look Series
Overview:
Shareholders pay considerable attention to the choice of executive selected as the new CEO whenever a change in leadership takes place. However, without an inside look at the leading candidates to assume the CEO role, it is difficult for shareholders to tell whether the board has made the correct choice. In this Closer Look, we examine CEO succession events among the largest 100 companies over a ten-year period to determine what happens to the executives who were not selected (i.e., the “succession losers”) and how they perform relative to those who were selected (the “succession winners”).
We ask:
• Are the executives selected for the CEO role really better than those passed over?
• What are the implications for understanding the labor market for executive talent?
• Are differences in performance due to operating conditions or quality of available talent?
• Are boards better at identifying CEO talent than other research generally suggests?
32 Ways a Digital Marketing Consultant Can Help Grow Your BusinessBarry Feldman
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Climate Change Mitigation & AdaptationLaurence Mills
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Renewable Technologies
Financial Assistance
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A one day symposium on zero/low carbon sustainable homes took place at The University of Nottingham on the 24th October, 2012. The event offered professionals within the construction industry a unique opportunity to gain added and significant insight into the innovations, policies and legislation which are driving the construction of zero/low carbon energy efficient homes both here in the UK and elsewhere in Europe. It explored solutions to sustainability issues “beyond” the zero carbon agenda. BZCH followed on from the successful ‘Towards Zero Carbon Housing’ symposium the University hosted in 2007. This event is part of the Europe Wide Ten Act10n project which is supported by the European Commission Intelligent Energy Europe.
Pulse Energy Webinar: Sustainability in CitiesPulse Energy
City governments are committed to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions to lead by example in their communities. Creating and following a practical sustainability plan that has significant impact is key to successfully reducing energy use.
This webinar featured Sadhu Johnston, Vancouver's Deputy City Manager, as learn about the initiatives that Vancouver is taking to become the world's greenest city by 2020. Sadhu will share with you:
* How the City reduced municipal operations' energy use by 24%
* The City's strategy for improving the energy performance of over 1,000,000 square feet of its buildings
* Specific tips on how you can implement building energy management for sustainability
Sadhu is the former Chief Environmental Officer of the City of Chicago, where he helped the City identify key sustainability issues and implemented programs that put the Chicago on the road to being one of the greenest cities in North America. As Deputy City Manager, Sadhu is leading Vancouver towards its goal of becoming the world's greenest city by 2020. Register now to reserve your spot and the opportunity to ask questions about municipal sustainability to a recognized leader in the field.
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Bristol Energy Cooperative (BEC) launches a new crowdfund to continue its journey to become a major generator of community-owned clean energy.
The crowdfund target of £1,150,000 will enable BEC to repay previous loans and invest in new micro-renewable generation and storage schemes. These include a 100kW Tesla battery storage project at a new sustainable housing site.
This bond offer builds on the popularity of BEC’s energy schemes where surplus profits are reinvested into the community. BEC has a proven track record of funding and developing renewables, including raising the ambitious sum of £10m last year.
Find out more in Director Andy O'Brien's presentation detailing BEC's plans for the future.
Summit Power - Texas Clean Energy Project – Laura Miller - Global CCS Institu...Global CCS Institute
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• Austin, Texas on November 8, 2011;
• Calgary, Canada on 10 November, 2011; and
• Washington, D.C. on 19 January, 2012.
The first roadshow focused on sharing project experiences and knowledge from the projects in North America but also brought in projects from Europe (Don valley) and Australia (Callide) so that regionally diverse experiences could be shared amongst a global audience.
Attendance at the event was around 30 to 35 which allowed open and frank discussions around technical, management, and regulatory issues and how these challenges can impact on a project’s advancement and decision making processes.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
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The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
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Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
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This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
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LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
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UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
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Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
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My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
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The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Our Low Carbon Future Community Consultation Nov 2011 draft
1. Our Low Carbon Future
Strategy
Briefing on progress so far &
looking forward
Community forum - November 2011
2. Overview
Strategy was adopted in June 2009. Targets set for 2020. Three-year action
plans (2009/10 – 2011/12) for ‘corporate’ and ‘community’ were adopted.
http://www.boroondara.vic.gov.au/our-city/environment/strategies
New action plans to guide priorities between 2012/13 – 2015/16 need to
be developed for Council endorsement.
Community forum aims to:
Update interested community groups and individuals on progress to
date against the current action plans and foreshadow proposed
upcoming actions
Seek suggestions for potential actions and priorities for the updated
action plans
Explore opportunities for collaboration on community-focused
initiatives .
This briefing has been distributed prior to the forum to help attendees prepare
for a meaningful and collaborative forum discussion.
www.boroondara.vic.gov.au
3. Recap on the Strategy
Principles:
1. Leadership by Council with the community
2. Assuming a moral obligation to act
3. Pursuit of ‘multiple benefits’ and a ‘no regrets’ approach to action
4. Actions prioritised by impact
5. Equity in both strategy and action
Objectives (reflecting combination of benefits being sought):
1. Reduce Council’s own greenhouse gas emissions
2. Reduce aggregate emissions for Australia
3. Reduce the impact of increasing energy prices on Council’s budget
4. Reduce the impact of increasing energy prices of vulnerable sectors of the
community
5. Support the Australian Government to introduce more ambitious
greenhouse gas reduction targets
6. Increase local energy security through investment in renewable energy
sources.
www.boroondara.vic.gov.au
4. Recap (con’t)
Targets:
• To reduce Council’s corporate greenhouse gas emissions by 30 - 40 per cent
below its 2007/08 levels by 2020
• To support programs and projects with the community that achieve an
abatement total of at least 50,000 tonnes CO2-e by 2020.
Highest priority action areas:
Corporate
• Buildings - energy efficiency (co-gen at leisure centres, ESD in buildings
and facilities)
• Streetlighting – switch to T5 lamps
• Fleet – smaller, more fuel-efficient fleet
Community
• Residential – energy efficiency (eg light globes, showerheads, solar hot
water)
• Commercial – energy efficiency opportunities in existing commercial
buildings
5. Context – then and now
Then (ie mid-2009):
• Prior to international negotiations in Copenhagen
• Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) announced and intended to start
in 2011/12
• Significant community debate on details but support for national action on
climate change was high.
Now
• International mitigation commitments and framework still not agreed
• Revised emissions trading scheme (Clean Energy Future) now legislated
without bi-partisan support
• Victorian Government undertaking review of the Victorian Climate Change
Act 2010.
• Public debate and opinion has shifted. Acceptance of the science and
support for strong action has waned.
• Climate action and advocacy groups remain engaged and driving for
effective action.
6. Council emissions sources 2009/10
Refrigerants: Air Con
& Fridges
1%
Other Scope 3
Emissions *
10%
Vehicles : Fuel
9%
Buildings: Electricity
Buildings: Gas 43%
10%
Streetlighting:
Electricity
27%
7. Corporate emissions progress
30000
Greenhouse gas emissions (tonnes CO2e)
911 911
25000
8443 7819
20000
15000
26837
10000
17268 18074
16000
5000
0
2007/08 Actual 2008/09 Actual 2009/10 Actual 2020 Target
GreenFleet GreenPower Greenhouse gas emissions
8. Building emissions by site
3500
• Top 14 sites = 87% of building emissions
& about 50% of total emissions
3000
•Top 7 sites (out of ~ 200) = 70% of
2500 building emissions
2000 natural
tonnes CO2-e
gas
1500
electricity
1000
500
0
9. Corporate Action Plan – status
Priority area and Status
action
Street lighting • Funding allocated
switch to T5s • Contract negotiations almost complete with United
Energy (Ashburton and Glen Iris)
• Also in negotiation with CitiPower (rest of municipality)
Buildings energy • Install co- generator at Ashburton pool – complete
efficiency • Lighting retrofits at Kew & Riversdale depot – complete
•Sustainable Buildings Policy and Guidelines – complete
• Implementation of new policy / guidelines – underway
• (New) Feasibility study for cogeneration at Boroondara
Sports Complex and Kew Rec Centre – commenced
Fleet • New efficient Local Laws fleet - complete
• Switch to sustainable biodiesel for large trucks -
complete
Data management • Annual emissions inventories – ongoing
and reporting • Utilities data process improvements – ongoing
10. Key projects
Asburton Community Precinct Cogeneration –
• 230kW cogenerator at Ashburton Pool and
Recreation Centre commissioned in October
2011.
• PVs, VSDs and lighting retrofits in precinct
community buildings.
APARC cogeneration plant • Emissions reductions in the order of 1000
tonnes will flow through into 11/12 inventory.
• Project investment: ≈ $1 million
Street Lighting bulk change -
• Once fully implemented, project is expected
to save approx 16,800 tonnes of CO2-e over
ten years.
• Negotiations with distribution businesses are
complex and slow.
• Anticipated completion in 2012/13
• Project investment: $2.4M
11. Community Action Plan - status
Priority area and action Status
Residential – Solar Hot • Sustainable Easter Suburbs program in 2010/11
Water promotion with other Eastern Alliance for Greenhouse Action
(EAGA) councils – complete
Residential – Solar PV • Solar Suburbs program in 2008/09 – 09/10 with
promotion EAGA – complete
Notes: early end due to loss of fed rebate
Residential – Lightbulbs • Live Green with LESS program (free in-home
replacement of light bulbs) in 2009/10 – complete
• GreenHouse Project (with Sustainability Vic) in
2009/10 – complete
Residential – Showerheads • Live Green with LESS program (in-home
replacement of light bulbs) in 2009/10 – complete
• Showerhead exchange at Council offices
(supplied by YVW) in 2010/11 & 11/12 – ongoing
Commercial – promote • Promotion via business networks and trader
building retrofits associations – lower priority
12. Complementary (community) actions
• Eco-living centre at 25 Inglesby Rd, Camberwell –
construction set for 2012/13
• Living for our Future program – workshop series on
composting and worm farming, solar hot water / PV,
energy smart homes, productive gardening etc
• Boroondara Sustainability Awards
• Continued investment in walking and cycling
infrastructure
• Walking School Bus program – currently 17 schools
• Ongoing promotion of available grants and rebates eg
Victorian Energy Saved Incentive Scheme
13. A new sustainable living hub
Boroondara Eco-Living Centre
Tours
School activities
Seminars
Workshops
Meetings
Events
Outdoor classes
Demonstrations
Interactive activities
Interpretive displays
Upcoming community consultation:
Wed 30 Nov 2011 – 6pm at Council
PLEASE COME AND HAVE YOUR SAY
14. Possible future actions (corporate)
Priority area Options / ideas
Public lighting • Solar lighting along share paths
• Other ideas/ options?
Buildings • Increase ESD in building renewal program
• Progressively retrofit co-gen at remaining leisure
centres
• Other ideas/ options?
Fleet • Tighten ‘green vehicle’ definition in Fleet Policy
• Trial hybrid / electric garbage trucks
• Other ideas/ options?
Data management • Progress to real-time utilities data monitoring
and reporting • Other ideas/options?
15. Possible future actions (community)
Priority area Options / ideas
Residential - energy • Promo revised Vic Energy Saver Incentive Scheme offer
(in-home smart switches etc)
• Community / enviro group initiatives?
• Other ideas / options?
Residential - waste • Subsidised worm farms / compost bins
• Community / enviro group initiatives?
• Other ideas / options?
Transport sector • Participate in PARK(ing ) Day
• Other ideas / options?
Commercial sector • Other ideas / options?
16. Group activity
1. Split into two groups to share / brainstorm
ideas:
– Actions to reduce community emissions
– Actions to reduce Council emissions
2. Assess against value & effort matrix
3. Feedback best ideas to whole group
4. Whole group reflection
WRAP UP AND CLOSE