Lucky Last ….Sustainability Showcase
By the time many of our readers see this the latest issue of abc carbon express (and it is a little later than usual this week) Queensland’s first Sustainability Showcase will be about to get underway in Parliament Buildings in Brisbane (Thursday 11 March at 12 noon Brisbane time).
And Queensland’s Minister of Climate Change and Sustainability Kate Jones is expected to deliver a suitably sustainable speech to Parliament, which will go something like this:
“Queensland has a growing population which is placing ever greater pressure on our resources while at the same time the effects of climate change mean we must move to a low carbon economy and we must get on with it without delay.
“The business community understands that and today I’m hosting a Sustainability Showcase in the Premier’s Hall to highlight some of our most innovative and exciting companies who are leading the way in developing green technologies.
“Queensland is not only a leading centre for climate change and sustainability research, it’s also full of enterprising, energetic and innovative organisations determined to design and market products and services for the new low carbon economy.
“The Sustainability Showcase features more than 40 Queensland organisations from as far afield as Mackay, Townsville, Dalby, the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast and Brisbane. Their ideas and innovations are just as varied.
“VRM Biologic from Townsville is using biological solutions to improve soils on farms and capture and manage carbon.
“Natures Paper of Brisbane is using left over wheat straw to make paper that is both environmentally and economically friendly.
“And Fumunda Marine from the Sunshine Coast has developed a device which is simply attached to commercial fishing nets to warn save dolphins and whales from getting tangled in nets.
“These are just a very few of the exciting new developments in green technology that will be showcased today.
“I’d like to thank Ken Hickson of ABC Carbon, who has played a pivotal role in bringing these organisations together and I encourage this House to visit the Premier’s Hall this afternoon and meet these exciting Queensland innovators.
“Also this afternoon I will be welcoming 11 Queensland companies as ecoBiz partners.
“ecoBiz is an initiative of this Government that actively assists Queensland businesses to save water, waste and energy.
“There are now 65 ecoBiz partners who together are saving 35,500 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions and 555 megalitres of water every year.”
Here is a full list of the 40 organisations, in addition to ABC Carbon, including businesses, not for profits and industry groups, which will be part of the Sustainability Challenge:
All Safe, Australian Green Infrastructure Council, Biofuels Association of Australia, Calthorpe Consulting, Carinya Corporate & Commercialisation, Climate First, Dynamic Eco Solutions, EC3 Global, Ecokinetics, Eco System Homes, Ecospecifier, Enerwise, Envirofriendly, EXlites, Fumunda Marine, Funnel, FWR Group, Green Roofs Australia, Ingenero, IQ Agribusines, My Clean Sky/SEA 02, NAC Consulting, Natures Paper, Norton Associates, OFB Corporation, Phil Little Sustainable Design Foundation, Prime Carbon, RBL Management Consulting, Soil Carbon, Start Innovation Centre, Strategic Directions, SuperGreenMe, Sustain Asia, Sustainability Challenge, Sustainable Jamboree, Sustainable Insight, VRM Biologic, Waterwise International, Wind Power Queensland and Zingspace.
Source: www.abccarbon.com