Sustainable Australia

The Australian Conservation Foundation's (ACF) Sustainable Australia project is designed to promote discussion about sustainability. It will research and communicate the story that a high quality of life does not require Australians to be on an endless treadmill of consumption, debt and environmental degradation.

Goals include developing an easy-to-read publication to promote discussion about sustainability; a comprehensive study to provide data on key environmental impacts in Australia; and a sustainability atlas, graphically mapping the demographics of consumption in Australia.

Collaboration with researchers at Sydney University's Integrated Sustainability Analysis Unit on the "input output analysis" has been incorporated and will form the basis for the key environmental impacts and demographics of consumption/sustainability report, the sustainability atlas, and the GreenHome eco-calculator data.

Research towards the written publications, mainly around driving and managing change for sustainability, is also underway. When published, the results will be available on acf online.

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