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Monday 23/4/2007 Page: 3
A COMMUNITY action group met at the weekend to think of ways ordinary people can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the effects of climate change. The Ballarat Renewable Energy and Zero Emissions group met at the Ballarat Mining Exchange on Saturday to brainstorm the best ways ordinary people can make a difference.
Organisers said about 140 people attended the event, and BREAZE committee member Steve Burns said the group was not about playing politics, but adopting a policy of local solutions to climate change. "I have never seen an issue like this (climate change) fire-up the way it has in Ballarat," he said.
"Climate change goes across party lines and I think the feeling in the Ballarat community is a dry Lake Wendouree has been the catalyst for people to become involved in ways to try and reduce the impact we are having on the environment." Mr Burns said the key to the success of the group was providing practical and easy solutions that people could easily adopt to do their part for the environment.
"People want to do practical things and want to know how to snake their house more environmentally friendly, or lead a more sustainable lifestyle," he said. Mr Burns said smaller groups would now be formed after the brainstorm to think of ways the ideas can be implemented in Ballarat.
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