Sustainability takes centre stage

Prof Kate Auty holding the City of Greater
Shepparton’s Environmental Sustainability
 Strategy 2014-2030 and Travis Turner
holds the State of the Climate, the last existing
copy presented to council by Prof Auty.

Sustainability took centre stage on Thursday.

About 60 people gathered at The Connection on the causeway between Shepparton and Mooroopna for the launch of the City of Greater Shepparton’s Environmental Sustainability Strategy 2014-2030.

The city’s Mayor, Cr Jenny Houlihan formally launched the document watched by council’s sustainability and environment officer, Travis Turner, and those on the committee who worked to piece the strategy together.

Chairman of council’s environment committee, Cr “Gunna” Ryan presented those on the committee with certificates acknowledging their contribution.

Speakers included Victoria’s former Commissioner for Sustainability and Environment, Prof Kate Auty, a position from which she recently resigned, but who is now a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and Tracy Taylor, who is with the nine council strong Goulburn Broken Greenhouse Alliance.

Tracy explained the “Watts Working Better” project that is about the replacement of high-energy street lights with more efficient units.