The organizing team is very happy with the outcomes of our strategic workshop last Saturday 26th March. We identified three short, medium and long-term projects that we are now calling for volunteers to help us drive for sustainability in The Gap. These are:

1) Elevate use of existing capabilities: Create a registry of community groups active in sustainability matters, encourage residents to volunteer for those, and take greater advantage of readily available opportunities such as reducing energy waste, or planting scrubs and trees on footpaths or kerbsides.

2) The Platypus Project: The aim to bring platypus back into Enoggera and Fish Creeks excited many attendees, as this would require a focus on water quality, with multiple flow-on effects such as habitat recreation, removal of waste from creek and surrounds, prevention of bushfires that would impact the water quality, removal of feral animals and education of the community.

3) Electricity Independence: Form a local community energy association, to offer affordable and secure energy to residents; reduce GHG emissions through renewable sources, and generate a surplus that could fund community projects such as 1 and 2.