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The eco•fingerprint

The Eco Footprint tells us where we've been, and that we've left a heavy trail. 

The ecoloogical•fingerprint points to where we are going!  Consider and commit to your emerging new relationship with the earth into next week, next year, next decade!  Calculate your eco*fingerprint score. --- The eco*fingerprint has been appraised and endorsed by David Suzuki

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Randwick Ecological Fingerprint
So, what is the eco fingerprint?  

A creative new tool ... a bookend to complement the ecological footprint.  The Ecological footprint has been a fantastic tool, allowing us to observe, no holds barred, the effect that our consumption choices have on this fragile, beautiful orb in space. The ecological footprint program, like the marks we leave behind in the sand, tells us where we have been. This is very useful. If we forget our history, we risk repeating it.

But more important is the future.

We can just let the future happen or we can take steps to shape it.  Once we realise, the impact we are having as individuals, groups and nations, it is time to start planning just how to begin reducing that impact.  Having made a decision to repair our footprint - the ecological fingerprint tool will help us map out a plan for our future.

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helping you find your own direction to sustainability

Apparently, in Australia, we spend more time thinking about and planning our footy tips for the weekend, than we do thinking about our long term financial survival such as through planning superannuation.

However, you can be sure we do spend way more time planning super than we do thinking about and planning our long term relationship with the Earth and how to make our lives increasingly sustainable!

If you are interested in contributing to the ongoing development of the eco fingerprint please email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Four pillars of the fingerprint

  • That there is such a bevy of waste built into our lifestyle. For more information, see Footprint Flab.
  • Alongside that, UNEP and empirical information indicates that up to 30% reductions in consumption are readily available simply through a mindset/behaviour shift.
  • Sustainable Living Is Not Rocket Surgery - we all know what pollution and waste looks like. There is so much that can be achieved through the so called "little things", the easy wins on the 'low -hanging fruit tree'. All the information is out there, just ask google.
  • If not now when?  Clearly this is the time in history to drop everything and do a bit of work every day to live differently.  What further signals do we need from nature?  And, with so much "sustainability" in the air these days it is only going to get easier and easier, while each day that goes by without action it becomes more and more urgent.
The answers are out there, the time is right and the opportunity to live sustainably is real - we just need the will, which derives from a commitment to act, which in turn generates optimism.

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Dr David Suzuki has endorsed the ecological fingerprint
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The eco fingerprint has been made possible through the support of the Randwick City Council. blank randwick_city_council_logo
 
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The DIY SSA Pioneered by Cities of Randwick, Waverly and Woolahara as well as The City of Whitehorse in Melbourne.  The DIY SSA mission statement ...

The biggest thing to get our heads around is that the social change, community making and eco-culture crafting aspects of the Systainability Street Approach are its deeper meaning and purpose.

The closer and richer people are together in their focus on the Earth, the deeper and wider will be the ecological sustainability achieved! 

  Sustainability Street is not about providing environmental information per se.   There are oceans of information out there these days.  More importantly, the SSA recognises that a groundswell of people want change and want to be part of a whole new relationship with the glorious natural systems of the Earth.  The enviro-information obsession can actually be a distraction for this awakening mainstream.  

  Our job ahead is to craft new ways, norms, taboos and values.  Believe it or not, getting together over a cuppa, is the best way to start designing this new culture for a better world, which we know is possible and which we can feel emerging.

   Anyhow, and even more empowering, is to recognise the two greatest traits we all have. They are imagination and common sense.  The way forward is just not rocket surgery.  We all know what waste and pollution look like. All the answers are out there and we all have the right and the power to imagine and shape the future we want.


  It all starts with a Sustainability Street Train the Mentor course open to council officers and community alike.  Below, the historic, first ever TTM introduced by Skype --- thanks to the Clovelly CCC Sustainability St Village --- & Cities of Randwick, Waverly and Woollahara in East Sydney.    The Clovelly Villagers at the other end of the "Cyber Workshop".  Wow!
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The 29th NSW Environmental Eduction Conference
Erika Van Shellenbeck is presenting the Willoughby SSA Case Study to this conference. Erik's an SSA pioneer and veteran whose early support with the City Of Willoughby was crucial to the introduction of the SSA to NSW.  Download the case study for a sneak preview ...

 Sustainility Street Willoughby


Selection of media coverage:

Vic Health

Sunday Age
Sydney Morning Herald
Life Magazine
Green Magazine 

Bilfinger Berger Magazine 

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