Sustainable Living Advice
Latrobe City Council Position on Climate Change and its Impacts
The Generally Agreed Effects of Carbon Pollution
Human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels (primarily oil, coal and natural gas) and land clearing, are increasing the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. There is widespread scientific consensus that this increase is enhancing the warming ability of the atmosphere, leading to a problem known as the ‘enhanced greenhouse effect’, commonly known as global warming or climate change.
For information on Climate Change visit Victoria's Climate Change Website
Save Energy in Your Workplace – Switch to Save
Switch to Save is a series of free short videos to help Victorian businesses reduce their carbon footprint via smart carbon saving changes made around the workplace.The series provides step-by-step instructions on how to make action changes in the workplace that will reduce business carbon emissions and save money. Switch to Save is an initiative between Sustainability Victoria and VECCI (Victorian Employers’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry) under the Carbon Down partnership.
Watch the Switch to Save videos
Sustainable Living Advice
Developed in conjunction with the Natural Strategies Group, this Guide is designed to help Latrobe City residents take action to live more sustainably at home and in the community. The Guide is packed with ideas, tips and inspiration about how small, easy changes can have positive impacts on the environment and your health and wellbeing - and can help save you money too!
So go on, challenge yourself to take up a new sustainable action today! Find out just how easy it is to work towards creating a sustainable future for ourselves, our children and our children's children.
Climate change actions to reduce our carbon emissions
Our food and drink choices influence the methods used to produce our food and drink, and the quality of that food and drink. So what can we do to help encourage more sustainable production, manufacturing and distribution of healthy food and drink?
By creating a beautiful, efficient and productive garden in your home, you can learn the rhythms of nature and our humble role in it. So how can we let our green thumbs play and align our gardens to the sustainable path?
It is all too easy to feel that the world's problems are so big that you cannot make a difference. It's crucial that we have a sense of 'working together' on this most important challenge, to live sustainably.
Thinking about things like the amount of resources used, how efficient the goods are and their lifecycle can help us make more environmentally friendly purchases. How can we reconfigure our retail filters to include our environmental responsibilities?
Our home and garden can be a bottomless pit of resource consuming ecological inefficiency - or a healthy Eden of self-sufficiency. So how do we manage that part of our ecological footprint we most control, our home, and set it on a sustainable path?
Recreation is how we relax, reward and inspire ourselves. Careful choices about travel, luxury holidays and recreational toys can ensure we play sustainably too. With a bit of extra thought, we can make sure our recreational choices don't cost the earth!
The majority of the services we receive from our governments, health care providers, banks, etc are configured for financial efficiency (saving money or making it). How do we shift this?
We extract from nature to create billions of tonnes of things which we use once then bury or pump out to sea - and pay money for each of these stages! As individuals we can learn to avoid, reduce, reuse and recycle, with the journey ending with zero waste... nature's finest.
Most of us still use the car as our primary mode of transport, and one-quarter of all car journeys are less than 3km. To ride a bike the same distance uses up less than one fiftieth of the energy required to drive. Explore sustainable transport options.
While most of us have less control over our workplaces than we do over our homes, our commitment to reducing the damage to the environment cannot stop when we get to work. Everyday at work we make many decisions about water, waste and energy.
As the home of 90% of Victoria's power generation, Latrobe City understands the significant challenges that Victoria faces into the future. So, we're doing something about it - reducing our carbon footprint.
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