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Clean Energy for Eternity - Mosman chapter launch

If we work together as a community we can achieve so much more than individual action, as the Bega community has shown through the establishment of Clean Energy for Eternity.

Be inspired as doctors, business leaders, school students, householders and renewable energy experts from both Bega and Mosman take you through the practical details, and propose a way forward.

Let’s make Mosman the first city community to seriously address the climate change threat.

Hosted by Mosman Council and chaired by Mayor Denise Wilton.

No one can do everything but everyone can do something!
Please come along and tell your friends.

• Clean Energy for Eternity - flyer and further information (PDF 671KB)

About Clean Energy for Eternity

Clean Energy for Eternity (CEFE) is a climate change group that started in the Bega Valley on the far south coast of New South Wales. The group arose after Dr Matthew Nott, a Bega orthopaedic surgeon, invited the local community to join him in making a human sculpture to raise awareness about climate change. On 21 May 2006, over 3,000 people (representing 10% of the population) wrote the words ‘Clean Energy for Eternity’ along Tathra Beach.

Subsequently a community meeting chaired by the local mayor committed to a target of a 50% reduction in community energy consumption and 50% renewable share of energy production by 2020. Six months later the Bega community had a widely endorsed action plan for achieving its target.

CEFE has since expanded to assist local communities in the Eurobodalla, Cooma Monaro, Snowy River and Shoalhaven shires.

Mosman is the first city based CEFE chapter and represents a shared commitment between the city and the bush to tackle climate change.

On December 2 CEFE is organising its biggest ever human climate change sign on Manly beach as part of the centenary celebrations for Surf Life Saving in Australia.

Matthew Nott is a recipient of the NSW Government’s Green Globe Energy Champion in 2006 and in 2007 CEFE was runner up for a Eureka prize.

The Women for Change Alliance has been operating in Mosman since 2006 and has over 100 members it holds functions and stalls to raise individual awareness of steps they can take to reduce CO2 emissions, with particular emphasis on Green Power.

Both groups are not-for-profit and staffed entirely by volunteers. They have dedicated themselves to showing people the way forward in dealing with the climate change issue. The solution lies in individual action, local community initiatives and getting policy changes and a suitable incentive framework introduced at the state and national political level.

In Mosman the groups welcome the initiatives already taken by Mosman Council and look forward to working together with Council through its Sustainability Panel.

For more information, or to offer your support, email mosman@cleanenergyforeternity.net.au

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