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About the Palerang SOT Working Group

Palerang Sustaining Our Towns Working Group was funded for two projects: originally called the PANS (Palerang Action Network for Sustainability) and a second Palerang Council led initiative to make energy consumption monitors for appliances available to households in the shire. (Switching to Lower Power Bills). See the bottom of this page to read more about the development and oversight of these two projects.

Palerang Local Action Network for Sustainability (PLANS)

Fortnightly Palerang Local Action Network for Sustainability (PLANS) Updates are available below.  If you would like to subscribe to our Updates please email melophorus@bigpond.com and ask to be put on the list.

Key PLANS’ Documents

Expression of Interest to Sustaining Our Towns (Feb 2011)

PLANS Goals, strategies and indicators July 2011

PLANS Objects and Constitution October 25th 2011

PLANS Report to SOT 30th August 2011

Updates

• May
  • Update No. 1 Friday 13th May 2011 (Includes about PLANS)
  • Update No. 2 Friday 20th May 2011
  • Update No. 3 Friday 27th May 2011

• June
  • Update No. 4 Friday 10th June 2011
  • Update No. 5 Friday 24th June 2011
• July
  • Update No. 6 Friday 29th July 2011
• August
  • Update No. 7 Friday 12th August 2011

• September
  • Update No. 8 Friday 16th September 2011
• October
  • Update No. 9 Friday 28th October 2011
• December
  • Update No. 10 Wednesday 21st December 2011

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Palerang SOT Working Group

The SOT meetings in Palerang Shire (immediately east of the ACT) put forward two projects: the PLANS (Palerang Local Action Network for Sustainability) and a second Palerang Council led application for an energy saving initiative.

The aim of the PLANS is to ‘increase the sustainable development capacity of Palerang communities by providing advocacy and secretariat support for local initiatives.’ Our group has a long list of great ideas that we’d like to see happen here in Palerang.  Our grant money is to pay someone to facilitate the group to focus our goals better and come up with a business plan or funding application for the groups’ longer term sustainability, whilst actually initiating the network and getting some activities happening across the Shire.

Fortunately we are finding that as we actually get down to the nuts and bolts of the project (recruiting people to our network and as Mel Hillery takes up her role in working for the group) those goals are becoming clearer.  It has been a slower process than many of us have hoped, but rewarding all the same.

In the near future  we are hoping to secure longer term funding, market research sustainability based enterprise opportunities in Palerang and link existing community groups across the shire.  Our first concrete steps towards this will be  a touring sustainability film/lecture series across the towns of the shire (hopefully cohosted by existing community groups) and a regular local sustainability update email list in the near future as start-up projects.

Meanwhile David Anthony at Palerang Council will be leading a project to purchase a number of energy monitors for applicances (the type you plug in at the wall) which will be made available for Palerang residents to borrow from local libraries and council outlets. The project will also include some public education to encourage residents to use the monitors and discover which are the most power hungry appliances in their houses.

For more information on PLANS (Palerang Local Action Network for Sustainability)

Contact Melinda Hillery on 0427 440 335 or email: melophorus@bigpond.com

For more information on Switching to Lower Power Bills

Contact David Anthony on 6238 8111 or email: david.anthony@palerang.nsw.gov.au

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