Our Team
Our team comprises leaders in key aspects of building a Sustainable Community and a Sustainable Economy and who have a track record of initiative and a deep commitment to rebuilding our natural systems and an economy that will support that endeavour. Our team includes members in Victoria who are international leaders in their respective fields.
President - Bob Phiiipson
Bob is fortunate to lead a world class team of volunteers who have contributed to the achievements of Our Sustainable Goulburn Mulwaree/SE NSW. The OSGM's program has been recognised by Erasmus University's JUSTRA program and is a member of both Drought and Sustainability Hubs in NSW.
Bob grew up in an English rural in England and he spent many hours in the countryside and learned the importance of our natural world. Bob has a keen interest and involvement in rural and urban landscape restoration. Also a keen interest in social justice in his own commmunity and overseas. Bob was instrumental in the formation of Community Voice For Hume that founded the Goulburn Mulwaree Landcare Regenerative Agriculture Group and now Our Sustainable Goulburn Mulwaree . In his professionla life, Bob pioneered the introduction of IT Service Management into Australia and was appointed the IT Service Management Forum's first Lifetime Member.
Vice President - Dr Di Dibley
Dr DI Dibley, a member of the ANU's Fenner School, is a leader in promoting corporate support for environmental action. Di has a deep commitment to the protection of our natural envirioment and was the co-founder of the ZeroSE, a group of community and environmental organistions in SE NSW. One of ZeroSE's key achievements. through Dr Margaret Mackinnon of the ANU, is the production of the "Emissions Fact Sheets". The Fact Sheets extend Ironbark Sustainablity's Emissions Snapshot data by calculating the financial return of emissions reduction across some 12 LGAs in SE NSW.
Dr Raf Dua, Project Management Consultant
Raf Dua is a pioneer of project management methods and project management software. Advising on the last Australian Submarine build was just one of many of his achievements. Raf is bending his mind to the best methods of managing environmental projects. As a rural dweller of many years, Raf understands the needs and requirements of rural regeneration.
Raf has been the author of world class project management software, including Microplanner, a tool that is being used by OSGM for its many projects.
Chris White, CPA, Committee Member
Chris has been working on his Wood-Wide Project for some time and is documenting his progress on regular and highly professional video. His videos includes: "How Trees Nurture And Protect Their Babies". This highly educational video is about the amazing role of trees in our biosphere and the protection of their young through the Mycorrhizal Network that the video calls the “Wood-Wide Web”. The WWW explains how parent trees feeds their babies. Additonally Chris' work highlights the destruction caused by large-scale logging. Chris has, of late been documenting the many different types of mycorrhizal fungi and their relative contribution to carbon sequestration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI7-SVRCIKI&t=200s
Leonie Martin, CPA Treasurer
Leonie has recently established a new business advisory service to help smaller businesses adopt sustainable business practices thst in turn will help drive the adoption of a sustainable business economy and increase business profits.
Leonie has played a key role in the development of marketing material for various of OSGM's community and rural based projects. Leonie has played a lead-role in the application of the One Planet Living Framework to OSGM's program: Building Goulburn/SE NSW's Sustainable Future, in particular but not only, the project at Marys Mount. In particular the role of such projects to the building of growing the size of the G-M sustainable economy.