Since 2001 over 200 local Sustainability Street Villages have emerged throughout Australia.

  Other hands may fell the last stands of the Downey rain-forest or clear-fell forest wilderness for wood chips to make wasteful packaging for goods we do not need. Others may release the pollutants that degrade the oceans,rivers, the air that breathe and the atmosphere which makes the Earth alone among the planets a haven for life. Others are the agents, but we are the principals, or at least the aiders and abettors. It is our values that are expressed in these actions. It is our lifestyle that makes such vandalism profitable. It is the governments we elect that permit it.

         Hal Wooten QC, President of Australian Conservation Foundation: 1986