Environmental Recyclers

1. Environmental Recyclers Living sustainably

4. Sustainability: An elegant concept, but difficult to define ... • Unsustainability • rising populations & resource consumption • poverty & debt • resource depletion • pollution & global climate change …

5. ‘ Being able to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’ Two definitions ‘Enough for All forever’

6. Nature is cyclical; there is virtually no waste in the natural world that does not provide food for other living systems. We need to create an economy that duplicates nature's cycle - wherethe waste from one process is the food for another. Paul Hawken

7. Darwin RAAF Base 1972 Greg came to Darwin with the RAAF in 1972. Unlike most of the other heritage houses on the base, the single men’s quarters – where he lived for 2 years - are still there.

8. Darwin 1974 I came to Darwin in January 1974. I lived in a house similar to this in Wood Street.

9. Pre Tracy Mainly Chinese market gardeners supplied Darwin with fruit and vegetables throughout the years before NT ‘ self-government’.

10. Our lifestyle change Greg in the rural area Diana in the rural area • He left the RAAF • Reclaimed his right to collect ‘stuff’. • Bought a Holden ute and a hoist. Shetook her pig, ducks and son to live the good life.

11. We explored sustainability as arelationship between people, our environment and Earth’s resources. • As land-carers we show respect and concern for the ecosystems we humans rely on … • We sustainably develop our environment : • To Conserve the Earth’s vitality & diversity and • To improve the quality of human and other lives

12. Tumbling Waters in 1991 and 2013 • Sheds made from re-used materials. • No harmful chemicals used

13. Environmental Recyclers NT began in 2002 • We worked through other non-profit environmental organisations • We joined sustainable business groups • We joined the Greens

14. Plan for Berry Springs as showpiece of sustainability like: Kimbriki NSW Denmark WA Former landfill site Recycling Centre

17. Protecting biodiversity helps us to safeguard our food supply. Our food supply is at risk when we depend on a small number of species.

20. Earth Charter sustainability principles

21. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeXdv-uPaw

22. resource use Addressing Sustainability issues Feeding the World • Agribusiness supports capital intensive chemical use and wide-scale land exploitation for profit. • Small-scale organic and permaculture farms ‘reduce, re-use and recycle’ their resources to nourish the land.

23. Respecting Country, Respecting Rights • Use land and water carefully • Don’t practise or endorse colonialism • Consume within carrying capacity limits and • Don’t waste finite resources

24. What makes good leadership?

25. Staying focussed

26. Growing food to organic standards • Respecting biodiversity • A biodiverse ecosystem has species resilient to new challenges. • An ecosystem lacking biodiversity is more likely to collapse.

27. Become informed. • Know what you’re buying, • where it was produced, • under what work conditions. • What was the impact on the environment? • Support ethical businesses that supply • organic food and clothing, • Recycled, re-manufactured building materials • and forest stewardship-approved timber or timber products. • Grow your own organic food. • Stop using household pesticides/insecticides.

28. It’s not waste, it’s a waste of resources Making mountains… Destroying mole-hills

29. Politics of sustainable development Reformist Radical

30. We need more than words – to go where no human has gone before – to work together - to tell our political leaders ‘ Enough!!’ AND to put our thoughts and questions into ACTION.