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In 2007, the Greater Sydney population is around 4.5 million people. The area from Gosford to Wollongong, from the coast to the Blue Mountains is about 50x100=5000sqkm. This makes it an interesting place to live. But as the population increases, we need to plan to ensure that it is viable to live and work.

Why you should leave your car at Home

Whether it is the noise, the cost of injury or death from car accidents, the time wasted in traffic, or the carbon dioxide generated, road traffic is the biggest problem facing us today.

If the daily average of 15,724 vehicles travelling North along Johnston St (North of the Intersection with Booth St Annandale) in 2005 ^ADT, travelled just 1km and were 2004 Toyota Prius ¹, they would generate 106g of CO₂-e each. Which would add up to 106gx15,724Prius=1,666,744g (approx 1,666kg) of CO₂.

A Eucalptus Tree which has grown a trunk of 100cm (1m) Trunk has absorbed 1,182kg of CO₂-e⁽¹⁾. A Softwood Pine Tree with the same size trunk has absorbed just 787 kg CO₂-e^(Calculator)

Those 15,724 Prius travelling just 1km through Annandale, each day would have generated more CO₂-e than 365*1.4=511 Eucalypt Trees.

Indicies and Measures

2006 Carbon Footprint per Country: USA: 19, Australia: 17.2, Canada: 16.7, Germany: 9.7, United Kingdom: 9.4, New Zealand: 7.4, China: 4.6, India: 1.3 -Carbon dioxide emissions per capita

• Kaplan and Norton's balanced scorecard for translating Strategy into Action
• BASIX - The Building Sustainability Index
• Global Reporting Initiative
• AuSSI - The Australian SAM Sustainability Index
• Ecological Footprint Calculators

Energy

• Video about Green ICT Course
• Are Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs Dangerous?
• Linux makes for greener computing
• Cogeneration Demonstration Project
• '6 star' Australian Ethical's refurbished office building
• Fujitsu opens sustainable data centre in Sydney

Transport

• Sydney Metro Bus 12 Month Trial
• 78% of people to work and trucks 60% of goods
• Sustainable transport and urban form
• Sustainable Transport in Sustainable Cities
• www.greenfleet.org.nz
• GoGet CarShare
• The Reva G-Wiz Automatic Electric Vehicle is a fully electric vehicle designed for urban commuting. It is the UK's most popular EV (electric vehicle).
• City of Hannover has 520,000 inhabitants over 204sqkm. Their Transport Modal Split is
  * 22% on foot
  * 13% by bicycle
  * 42% by car
  * 23% by public transport - Lessons from Sustainable Hannover

Water

• Federal Park Wetlands
• Ted Floyd's Creek Care
• Saving Water in Public Buildings
• Your Home Plumbing System

International

• From peril to progress (higher fuel efficiency standards for carmakers)(USA Monday, January 26th, 2009)
• Report: Germany's Revised Car-Tax Could Benefit Gas Guzzlers....Meanwhile, German car owners swamped a hotline with calls this week after the government invited applications for a big cash handout to anyone crushing an old car and buying a new one. (22.01.2009)
• Florida to buy 187,000 farmland acres to preserve Everglades
• A trip through Europe and Asia on the theme of climate change

Air Quality

• The Natural Paint Place
• Traffic fumes are still damaging children's brains
• EDGAR"- based constructions, as inputs to a model of the evolving global budget for methane

Waste

• Tumbleweed for your recycling and garden needs Easy Composting for Everybody
• Life Cycle Analysis - A Tool to Understand Sustainability
• Install an Apartment Balcony Worm Farm
• Reverse Garbage
• The Bower: Traders of the Lost Artefact

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