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Consultation has concluded.
We are currently developing a new action plan to support the City of Adelaide's Carbon Neutral Strategy 2015 - 2025.
The global pandemic has shown the incredible ways that people can work together in the face of adversity. Climate change is a challenge that also requires collective action. We want to hear what you are doing and what we should focus on to support the transition to carbon neutrality, particularly in ways that also best support your recovery from COVID.
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Contribute to our virtual whiteboard for a low carbon Adelaide.
Closes at 5pm Monday 18 April 2022.
Share your stories about what you are doing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the city using words or images:
An emissions reduction analysis undertaken externally on behalf of Council identified key areas to next focus efforts to enable the City of Adelaide become a low carbon city. These focus areas have been included as "thought starters" on the whiteboard. We welcome your thoughts on these proposed focus areas as well as any other ideas for action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Image a tartan pattern network of green streets that criss-cross the Adelaide CBD and North Adelaide and splash into the surrounding Parklands and Riverbank precinct. Imagine the sound of birds and smell of fresh eucalypt (or basil) as you ride down a completely seperated bikeway on your way to work from you parkland adjacent apartment. Adelaide has one of the lowest tree canopy covers of all Australian cities. If we carefully select a well distributed network of existing streets to connect our greatest assets, the green city squares and parklands together in a continuous mesh of tree lined green streets we could create one of the most unique city experiences in the world, improve our cities performance, by radically reducing heat island effect, improve biodiversity by creating pollination corridors across the city, instill water sensitive urban design and in turn greatly improve the wellbeing and safety of city users.
Reduce hard surfaces and urban heat by removing roads and parking; make space for people and vegetation.
Make cycling safer and more attractive by having bike paths completely separated from cars in all directions through the city and connecting the surrounding suburbs with the parklands. Bike paths should be safe enough to ride on with your kids - a white painted line on the road is not safe enough and a major reason people don't ride.
As is done in Canberra and many other major world cities, bike racks on the front of buses helps to solve the 'last mile' issue and can enable people to move to lower-carbon methods of transportation. Having bike racks on the connector buses would help people to get around the city, especially for older people wanting to get up the hill to North Adelaide who may otherwise struggle. It may also encourage broader support among the SA population, which could lead to a metropolitan-wide bus rollout — which would really help kick cycling uptake to the next gear and enable thousands of more trips by bike.
The current bin system for commercial properties need some attention. My team and I were surprised to find that there was no collection service for organics let alone soft plastics. So we took matters into our own hands and on quick google search we found this amazing SA company called BINSHIFT. 6 bins, well designed and clearly stating what goes where. We now use EcoCaddy next door to handle our organics, take our soft plastics to the supermarket for recycling with Redline and consolidate our paper and cardboard - some of which gets used for composting. The hardest part has been communication with our commercial cleaners, so they now just handle the yellow and red bin - our team manages the rest. It's a bit of work, but our members are very supportive - some now use the system themselves at home. The next phase will be us measuring and keeping a running tally of weights and volumes on a whiteboard in our kitchen space.
There are over 200 Carbon Neutral Adelaide partners, ushering in a low carbon economy. See their stories.
| Phone | (08) 8203 7545 |
| a.bassett@cityofadelaide.com.au |
| Phone | (08) 8203 7817 |
| m.schartner@cityofadelaide.com.au |
| Phone | (08) 8203 7616 |
| R.Short@cityofadelaide.com.au |
