6 August 2009
Wide Bay Volunteers is proud to announce it will be funded to assist residents of the Bundaberg and Burnett regions to reduce their households’ carbon emissions, and save on energy costs, through the Wide Bay Volunteers Bundaberg and Burnett Low Carbon Diet Project.
The funding, announced yesterday by Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability, Kate Jones MP, is a ClimateSmart initiative of the Department of Environment and Resource Management to assist householders to adopt more eco-friendly water and waste management practices in their homes, and reduce energy bills.
Based on David Gershon’s book, The Low Carbon Diet, the program encourages households to form EcoTeams comprising several households, with friends, family, workmates or other participants, to assist each other in achieving their carbon emission reduction goals.
Participation in the Low Carbon Diet follows a step-by-step approach that allows the whole family to work together, having fun, and being informed on strategies that are easy to implement, and can significantly reduce household carbon emissions while also reducing energy costs.
EcoTeams of participating households arrange their own meetings or other methods of staying in touch, to compare notes, and to share ideas and results, over anything from 30 days to 3 months, depending on their preferences.
Wide Bay Volunteers will deploy its Bundaberg and Burnett Low Carbon Diet Project through stalls and presentations at community events, and by conducting information sessions for local community organisations and staff at local businesses. Initial presentations will involve assisting with the formation of EcoTeams, simple training sessions on how to follow the program, and the recording of baseline carbon footprints for participants’ households.
Wide Bay Volunteers will then assist EcoTeams in following the Low Carbon Diet, providing advice and helping to monitor progress, before assisting EcoTeams with recording the new carbon footprint figures for their households to determine what carbon emissions savings have been made.
The Wide Bay Volunteers Bundaberg and Burnett Low Carbon Diet Project will be launched in Bundaberg early in 2010, before also being delivered in areas such as Biggenden, Childers and Gin Gin over the following months.
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