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Sustainable 1000
The Adelaide Sustainable 1000 project will be delivered in four stages across South Australia, utilising a broad industry base of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs, employing less than 20 staff) to deliver a set of outcomes guaranteed to improve individual business profitability, the environment and better human and social welfare.
The four stages will target in sequence:
- Northern Adelaide (City of Salisbury and City of Playford)
- Southern Adelaide
- Central Adelaide (City of Unley)
- Regional Adelaide (Kangaroo Island).
Northern Adelaide would initially target up to 100 SMEs for participation in a lead demonstration pilot.
The project will deliver measurable outcomes that will assess:
- the sustainability of individual businesses
- the accumulative improvements of the pilot group measured in dollar values
- standardised ecological measures.
These are all comparable to identified benchmarks and with a focus on achieving specified objectives and targets of South Australia’s Strategic Plan.
A local environmental advisory firm will be engaged to deliver the following direct savings:
- minimum 15% waste reduction per business
- minimum 20% water reduction per business
- minimum 10% energy reduction per business.
This equates to a minimum saving per business of $600 plus operational costs.
The program will work closely with all government agencies and environmental organisations to ensure the advisory firm’s model interfaces and aligns with existing environmental programs delivering outcomes to the business sector.
Sustainable 1000 case studies
- The Aurora Ozone Hotel
- Cue Power Billiards
- Island Foods Distriutors
- Kangaroo Island Council
- Mawson Lakes Park Way Childcare Centre
- The Pretzel Zone
- Steve's Organics
- Taza Bakehouse
- The Spud Shop
- Wintersun Holiday Homes and Units
Kangaroo Island Business Sustainability Program
The Kangaroo Island Business Sustainability Program was officially launched by Minister Gago on 18 September 2007, when Community Cabinet was on the Island.
This program has exceeded all expectations with the full capacity (40) of businesses signed on to the program and high participation rates at workshops.
All 40 businesses completed their initial audits and the five scheduled workshops have been delivered. Final audits were conducted in February 2008 and an Awards and Recognition celebration was held in April 2008.
Last modified: 17/04/2012 01:20 pm
