What is Sustainability for Wanaka

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What is Sustainability for Wanaka?
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UnSustainable

• Economy

Society
Environment
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Strong Sustainability
Environment
Society
Economy
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How to become more sustainable

• 1. Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• 2. Improve Landuse planning and management
• 3. Maximise Energy Efficiency
• 4. Improved management of Freshwater resources
• 5. Improved management of Social and Cultural
  Issues

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How to become more sustainable

• 6. Minimising, reusing and recycling waste
• 7. Improved Air Quality and Noise reduction
• 8. Improved management of Hazardous substances
• 9. Improved Wastewater management
• 10. Improved Ecosystem conservation and
  management

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Sick of the bad news

• Locally
• Lagrosiphon, Bullock creek, Development pressure,
  Price of fuel, cost of living, environment court
  again.
• Nationally
• Report after report!, Carbon Tax, Access issues,
  5 Pure NZ Lowland rivers.
• Internationally
• Climate Change, Poverty, injustice, war, human
  rights

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How about some good news

• Locally Project Pure, Long Term Council
  Community plan, recycling, Sustainable Building
  benefits, Lake enhancement, tenure review with
  improved access, less burning off.
• Nationally Energy wise grants, Hybrid vehicles,
  tenure review, clean air standards, High Country
  Access, solar hot water grants scheme
• Internationally Community examples Curbita,
  Calvia, Port Douglas, Whistler, GPI, Human
  Development Index, 1530 Local Govt LA21

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Sustainability is about the good news

• Sound business practice
• Economic, social and environmental gains
• Thinking for the Long term
• More aware of nature and our place in it

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Our relationship to the Clutha River

• 1900- present Rubbish Tips on river edge
  100 in Otago
• 1964 Roxburgh damriver blocked for one week,
  national hoilday declared
• 1988-92 Clyde Dam builtcontroversy
• 2001 Contact spends 4 Million on Consent
  1.5Million to Ngai Tahu to research traditional
  values of river
• 2003 Workshop on Clyde as a hydrogen generating
  facility
• 2004- present QDLC sewage discharge levels
  above set levels
• 2004 800,000 promised for Kayaking facility on
  Hawea
• 2005 River Parkway Proposal gains momentum
• 2005 Project Pure Wanaka Sewage to land begins

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• Research says.
• There is a trend that NZ and international
  visitors are more aware of the environment and
  our relationship to it.
• Visitors are happy to pay up to 20 more for
  operations that support the environment.

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Issues for Wanaka

• We are an industrial Island..transport is
  critical
• Dependence on food, energy, shelter
• High Natural Capital which is being eroded Life
  the way it should be? 100Pure?

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Motivation for change to sustainability?

• Viability of tourist industry remains
• Expectation from Visitors
• Gains for businesses and community Economic,
  Social, Ecological

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How do we carry this out ?

• Learn from other communities
• Industry Accords/Charters yields best results
• Legislating last option as Govts needs to model
  best practice first

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Environmentally Sustainable Tourism Project

• 2005 Awareness Raising and Championing
• 2006 Consolidation
• 2007 Charter Implementation

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Wanaka
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• Charter for SUSTAINABLE WANAKA
• VISION
• Recognising that we live in one of the most
  pristine and unique areas in New Zealand we will
  actively promote and manage the integration of
  ecological, social and economic goals for our
  community's sustainable development.
• MISSION
• We wish to actively influence community decisions
  and to work co-operatively to inspire and provide
  guidance for the benefit of current and future
  generations and the environment.
• AIMS
• -To position Wanaka as New Zealand's most
  successful sustainable community.-To be
  catalytic and solution based in facilitating
  activities that bring our vision into
  reality.-To seek the highest possible levels of
  public participation and endorsement in all our
  initiatives.-To identify true costs and develop
  time frames in all our planning that recognize
  the life cycles of affected organisms.-To ensure
  access to the best information and the best
  science to thereby inform and motivate our
  community.-To ensure perennial funding of our
  organizational capacity that reflects our
  financial independence and wide community
  participation.-To develop a baseline of current
  economic, ecological and social performance in
  all relevant areas and to define indicators that
  measure improvement or deterioration from
  there.Finally that in subscribing as
  individuals to this Charter we recognize our
  overarching duty to encourage other individuals,
  groups,businesses and governments to think
  globally, act locally and commit personally to
  the behavioural change that is required of all of
  us to make sustainable existence a
  success.Wanaka September 2004.

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Sustainable Wanaka Charter highlights

• Solution based
• Highest possible public endorsement of activities
• Tourism focus next few years

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Pilot Businesses
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Diff sectors have diff focus

• Accomodation
• Transport
• Retail
• Restaurant
• Tourist Activity

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Each business

• Sustainability Assessment and Action Plan
• Business agrees to an action plan
• Aim for each pilot to become advocates for
  benefits

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How to become sustainable

• 1. Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• 2. Improve Landuse planning and management
• 3. Maximise Energy Efficiency
• 4. Improved management of Freshwater resources
• 5. Improved management of Social and Cultural
  Issues
• 6. Minimising, reusing and recycling waste
• 7. Improved Air Quality and Noise reduction
• 8. Improved management of Hazardous substances
• 9. Improved Wastewater management
• 10. Improved Ecosystem conservation and management

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How to

• Show benefits with real examples
• Offer rather than tell, start small and make it
  easy
• Ensure informed about proven areas of benefit
• E.g. purchasing choices, solar hot water, green
  transport, waste minimisation, energy efficiency,
  enhancing local areas

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Light Bulbs

• Replace 5 most commonly used light bulbs in a
  house saves 500 over 5 years Energy Mad Ltd
• For Dunedin 11MW 17 Million Power Station
  184,000 bulbs, 1.6 million fewer incandescent
  bulbs being sent to landfill

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Solar Hot Water

• 40 average household bill
• 0-80 business bill
• Interest free loans for business and residential
  5000 system pay 170 per month
• The Wanaka Homestead experience proves that the
  savings from solar hot water is more than the
  cost of finance to purchase and run the system.

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Transport

• 1. Be Transport efficient
• 2. Support alternative fuels and vehicles
• 3. Offset impacts of vehicles
• NZ Business Council For Sustainability

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Hybrids

• Petrol/electric motors
• 50 less fuel
• 5 of emissions
• Ave car 2-5g per km
• lt200 on the road in NZ in 2005

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Transport

• Toyota Prius
• Milage101000km
• Year2000 Price16995

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Offsetting carbon use in fuel

• 1.8L car does 15,000km produces 2.06 tonnes of
  carbon dixoide.
• This can be offset with 6 trees
• Return Air travel to Thailand 18764km ex ChCh
  1.05 tonnes carbon emmissions
• This can be offset with 3 trees

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Stronger Sustainability
Redesign Reduce Reuse Recycle

• Weaker Sustainability