What All Members of the Community Can Do
Climate Change and the Built Environment
- Choose ‘green’ power (renewable energy sources).
- Reduce energy use generally by using and maintaining buildings, systems and appliances responsibly.
Using global resources
- Choose alternative water supply and re-use options.
- Reduce, reuse, recycle generally and specifically with buildings and building systems and products.
- Purchase/lease buildings that are built for the local environmental conditions and have a small environmental footprint.
- Adapt and re-use materials and buildings as a sustainable practice.
Creating sustainable communities
- Engage in initiatives to develop and choose alternative housing models that can offer a high quality of life without the need for the resource intensive detached suburban housing model.
- Develop living environments which focus on local conditions and produce locally based solutions.
- Encourage and support government and other initiatives to contain the sprawl of urban areas and to plan for and implement sustainable and best use of land and water resources.