Environment
Presentations are available from the following events:
- 2018 Electric Vehicle Ready Local Government Fleets Workshop
- Ecologically Sustainable Design (ESD) Forum
- 2016 MAV Environment Conference
- 2014 MAV Environment Conference
2018 Electric Vehicle Ready Local Government Fleets Workshop
This workshop was the first part of a project run by ClimateWorks, the Electric Vehicle Council and the Municipal Association of Victoria, aimed at enabling greater electric vehicle uptake in local government fleets.
- Electric Hybrid Vehicles - Benalla Rural Council (PowerPoint - 662KB)
- EV Procurement - Bede Doherty (PowerPoint - 14.2MB)
- How to prepare - JetCharge (PowerPoint - 4.33MB)
- Introduction to Project - ClimateWorks (PowerPoint - 1.08MB)
- Our EV Journey - Yarra City Council (PowerPoint - 1.96MB)
Ecologically Sustainable Design (ESD) Forum
The MAV in partnership with the Council Alliance for a Sustainable Built Environment (CASBE) held a forum in March 2017 on ecologically sustainable design.
Video presentations and presentations from this event are now available on the MAV Members' Only Site.
2016 MAV Environment Conference
The MAV runs an environment conference every two years.
The conferences feature the latest information on environment and sustainability – where things are at now and where we're heading - with a particular focus on the challenges and opportunities facing local government.
Presentations
- A 15MW utility scale solar farm - Gary Kelly, Sunshine Coast Council (PowerPoint - 1.55MB)
- Achieving carbon neutrality pre and post Paris - Jessica Wingad, Mornington Peninsula Shire Council (PowerPoint - 2.57MB)
- ASPIRE to change the way we deal with waste - Angela Stubbs (PowerPoint - 1.79MB)
- Bass Coast Amendment C82: Land Subject to Inundation Overlay - A local government perspective - Jodi Kennedy (PowerPoint - 5.29MB)
- Climate Smart Agricultural Development Project (PowerPoint - 18.5MB)
- Climate Smart Agricultural Development in the Goulburn Broken: A regional climate change adaptation partnership project - Marisa O'Halloran, Goulburn Broken Greenhouse Alliance (PowerPoint - 1.94MB)
- Collaborating on built form energy efficiency using the planning system - Natasha Palich, CASBE (PowerPoint - 5.36MB)
- Data democracy: a new deal for the environment - Dr Gillian Sparkes, Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability Victoria (PowerPoint - 5.75MB)
- Designing to Thrive – Dr Dominique Hes, Melbourne School of Design (PowerPoint - 44.9MB)
- Energy saver study - Greg Hunt, SECCCA (PowerPoint - 5.56MB)
- Get smart: Smart lighting and smart cities - Paul Brown, Ironbark Sustainability (PowerPoint - 3.37MB)
- Growing a greener west - Strategic partnerships for regional change - Clare Lombardi, Greening the West (PowerPoint - 6.08MB)
- Impact investing & green bonds - Steve Lambert, EGM Capital Financing, NAB (PowerPoint - 2.53MB)
- Influencing behaviour change in business and the community - Assoc. Prof. Liam Smith, BehaviourWorks Australia (PowerPoint - 12.1MB)
- The irrigation cooling effect at the Royal Botanic Garden Melbourne and Cranbourne - Charlie Lam, CRC for Water Sensitive Cities (PowerPoint - 4.41MB)
- Local government and the sharing economy: Leveraging shared assets for sustainability - Darren Sharp and Kathleen Kemp, Social Surplus (PowerPoint - 6.79MB)
- Managing the transition - Tosh Szatow, Energy for the People (PowerPoint - 917KB)
- Melbourne Renewable Energy Project - Adam Zaborszczyk (PowerPoint - 845KB)
- Moreland is hot and getting hotter thanks in part to the urban heat island effect - Louise Lovell (PowerPoint - 29.3MB)
- Post Paris: a greenhouse emissions reduction target for Macedon Ranges Shire Council - Silvana Predebon (PowerPoint - 4.01MB)
- Post Paris: What does the 1.5oC Paris Agreement mean for local government emission reduction targets - Alexi Lynch, ICLEI (PowerPoint - 6.52MB)
- Saving threatened species - Jenny Gray, Zoos Victoria. Part 1. (PowerPoint - 40.1MB)
- Saving threatened species - Jenny Gray, Zoos Victoria. Part 2. (PowerPoint - 42.8MB)
- Saving threatened species - Jenny Gray, Zoos Victoria (PDF - 11.1MB) [No embedded videos]
- Sharing innovation: A partnership approach to collective procurement, education and residual waste management -Rob Millard, Metropolitan Waste and Resource Recovery Group (PowerPoint - 1.86MB)
- Soaring to new heights: The use of drones in ecology, conservation, and extreme weather events - Dr Catherine Ball, Elemental Strategy (PowerPoint - 2.99MB)
- Sustainable Melbourne Fund: Environmental upgrade agreements - Scott Bocskay (PowerPoint - 5.61MB)
- Take2: Victoria's climate change pledge program - Stan Krpan (PowerPoint - 1.51MB)
- The Sustain Me Group - Eleanor Meyer (PowerPoint - 556KB)
- Welcome to the New World - Rob Gell, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society & Inaugural Fellow of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand (PDF - 6.57MB)
2014 MAV Environment Conference
Presentations
- Australian Youth Climate Coalition - Kirsty Albion (PDF - 4.40MB)
- Banyule stormwater harvesting project - Clayton Simpson, Banyule (PDF - 19.9MB)
- Climate change in 2014 - Tim Flannery, Climate Council (PowerPoint - 12.7MB)
- Councils' environmental obligations in 2014 and beyond - Katrina McKenzie, EPA (PowerPoint - 9.28MB)
- Creating connected and liveable cities, Route 96 Project - Clement Michel, Yarra Trams (PowerPoint - 4.69MB)
- Creating connected and liveable cities, Route 96 Project - Mark Brady, Port Phillip (PowerPoint - 7.62MB)
- Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) - Sam Burke, DTF (PowerPoint - 1.92MB)
- Fleet management (electric vehicles) - Emily Boucher, Kingston (PowerPoint - 3.33MB)
- Food from waste, getting organics right (PowerPoint - 8.01MB)
- Hon. Greg Hunt, speech notes (PDF - 240KB)
- Hon. Ryan Smith, presentation (PDF - 2.45MB)
- How sustainable is Australia - John Thwaites, ClimateWorks (PowerPoint - 12MB)
- Local Buffer Support Program - Vanessa Petrie, MWMG (PowerPoint - 2.13MB)
- MAV Environment Conference program 2014 (PDF - 1.66MB)
- Planning for sustainable buildings - Andrea Skraba, CASBE (PowerPoint - 902KB)
- Public Transport Victoria - Mark Wild (PowerPoint - 3.16MB)
- Recycled roads to zero waste - John Hennessy, MAV (PowerPoint - 1.70MB)
- Recycling and community engagement on Ascot Vale Housing Estate (PowerPoint - 6.34MB)
- SECCCA South East Councils Climate Change Alliance - Rick Wakelin (PDF - 1.28MB)
- Solar panels - the inherent conflict, John Rantino - Maddocks (PowerPoint - 1.23MB)
- State of the Climate 2014 summary - Karl Braganza, Bureau of Meteorology (PowerPoint - 12.8MB)
- Sustainable Melbourne Fund - Scott Bocskay (PowerPoint - 15.5MB)
- Waste management, recycling and resource efficiency - Stan Krpan (PowerPoint - 9.56MB)