2022 Community Zero Emissions Grants recipients announced
11 May 2022
Six projects will share in over $155,000 to deliver projects that address climate change in round 5 of the Community Zero Emissions Grants program.
The grants support community projects that seek to reduce emissions, increase community resilience to climate impacts and inspire change.
From composting and planting trees at school, to helping people change how they use energy around the home, the projects that have been awarded Community Zero Emissions Grants reflect the diversity of ways we can all take everyday action on climate change.
This year, for the first time, projects that aim to increase the community’s resilience to the impacts of climate change were considered for grant funding.
The six successful projects in round 5 are:
Applicant Organisation | Funding Amount | Project title | Project summary |
|---|---|---|---|
Canberra Environment Centre | $49,612 | Climate Resilience and Adaptation Toolbox | The project aims to strengthen the Canberra community's resilience to climate change through targeted workshops and online multimedia resources that change households’ behaviour. This will include a climate resilience education program with eight multi-media resource toolboxes and an increase of community locations hosting the workshops, as well as delivering workshops online. |
Conservation Council | $43,265 | Make the Switch to clean, green cooking | The project takes the message from the already developed Make the Switch website out to the Canberra community through an innovative communications and community engagement campaign to encourage ACT community to switch off gas. The project will comprise of face-to-face community engagement over 12 months about the benefits of all-electric appliances, in particular induction cooktops. |
Lyneham High School | $4,512.50 | Lyneham High School Sustainability Initiative | The aim of the project is to foster activities and projects that promote more environmentally friendly practices and reduce the school's footprint. These activities include: school compost bins to reduce landfill and methane emissions; school bottle bins to increase student recycling; "Ride-to-school-day" to encourage clean transport; and new "house trees" to show the school's commitment to the environment. |
SEE Change | $24,878 | SEE Change Roving Regenerators | The SEE Change Roving Regenerators program will foster soil health awareness, soil building community building through a series of workshops that focuses upon soil health. |
National Film Academy | $28,000 | Electric Dreams Documentary | This project will develop a documentary themed around the transition to zero emissions transport and the technologies people and businesses are using to make change in the ACT community. The documentary will be broken into short episodes suitable for sharing through social media platforms and cinema and event screenings, with clear links to private businesses and government incentive programs. |
Pedal Power ACT | $5,556 | Canberra Cyclist goes Digital | Pedal Power will digitise The Canberra Cyclist publication, a quarterly members magazine that promotes the benefits of cycling. This will involve creating a digital Newsroom, and a new Pedal Power App, which will be free and publicly available to engage a much broader ACT audience about the benefits of cycling to encourage people to adopt zero emissions transport options. |
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