Implementation Strategy

1. Form a steering committee - Completed
2. Give Priority To projects that deliver benefits to the disadvantaged
3. Start with projects that require the least funding and have the lowest risk
4. Input on community needs from other groups, especially from the "Villages", through meetings and surveys, plus Council survey
5. Set up an Information Centre for Locals and Visitors 
6. Use our presence at the newly commenced Farmers Market to promote the CSH and the many planned and targeted events  
7. Use metrics from Ironbark Sustainability Snapshot to set targets so we can measure progress, ditto metrics from the One Planet Council Sustainability Framework Categories, through the Bioregional Group, see https://www.bioregional.com/bioregional-australia
8. Building business and social sustainability with practical projects such as improving home insulation for Aged pensioners, based on agreed set of priorities Soil improvement leading to carbon sequestration on agricultural, council and in private gardens 
9. Where possible conduct an assessment of each of the One Planet Council Sustainability Framework, eg to establish the adequacy of council plans to support the sustainability of the community
10. Work with partners in the execution of sustainability initiatives

​Current and Planned Areas of Expertise 

• Building sustainable businesses
• Community engagement
• Regenerative Agriculture and carbon sequestration
• Electrify Everything
• Garden Sustainability and vegetable growing
• Energy efficiency in buildings and dwellings
• Social sustainability/equality
• Circular economy leading to a Resource Balanced Economy
• Development of New Forms of Renewable Energy
• Reforestation and the restoration of ecological system restoration including riverine
• Building carbon in the soil and managing carbon credits
• Estimation and quantification of the benefits of sustainability initiatives
• Application and understanding of Doughnut Economics 

​Business Benefits

• establishment of Goulburn Mulwaree as a leader in building a sustainable future through:-
  • major eco/agri-tourism projects such as riverine and suburban restoration 
  • self-sufficient in clean food production
  • reduced power use and hence business and domestic outgoings  
• safeguard and build your revenue
  • align your business with community needs
  • build the sustainability of your business through collaboration and shared community values

Environmental Opportunities and Benefits:-

• reduce carbon emissions and increase moisture retention
• soil health 
• erosion-proofing
• animal well-being
• safeguard and build natural capital and biodiversity
• sustained productivity and drought resilience
• cooling the ground and around neighbourhoods