We will deliver
Environmental leadership.
We will deliver a Green and Sustainable City using smart technology to reduce emissions. We will pilot new opt-in Food and Organics collections, green the city’s corridors, laneways, mainstreets and neighbourhoods and will fully convert our fleet of vehicles to 100% electric/hybrid by 2030.
Return and renew publicly accessible park lands - there will be no net loss.
Immediate increase to the South West and North West tree canopy by planting a minimum of one tree for every day in our term… increasing SW to 25% and NW to 28% by end of term.
Pilot an opt-in FOGO (Food Organics Garden Organics) weekly collection in the South Ward.
Pursue a group power purchase to bring together corporate Adelaide and transition to renewable energy.
Establish a citywide Greening Strategy and a ‘Green Team’ of residents and volunteers to help us green up every part of our city.
Immediately deliver 20 new residential on-street EV charge stations in our city’s neighbourhoods.
Review the city’s waste management to be a zero waste city by 2030.
We have delivered
Passionately leading change for better.
With a strong emphasis on sustainability and climate change, Adelaide has positioned itself as a front-running environmental city.
My council is the first South Australian council to have all operations powered entirely by renewable sources.
Using 100% sustainably-sourced electricity, we have reduced emissions by 50% (equating to 11,000 tonnes) saving millions of dollars and creating new jobs. As of 2020, we were proudly certified as a Carbon Neutral organisation.
In addition, our pledge to be a consciously driven Green City saw the following changes enacted.
The introduction of an electric vehicle plan that achieved 23% of fleet changed over to Hybrid (12 vehicles) and fully electric (34 vehicles).
Installation of solar power panels across eight council buildings, generating 1.185 MW – enough to power 300 homes per year.
1500 LED street lights installed, saving enough electricity to power 100 homes per year.
A city-wide waste audit to inform an ambitious resource recovery plan.
The new plantation of more than 1,000 trees and 300,000 plants.