From a discussion on our mailing list (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Climate_Action_Brisbane/).
I would like to address all such concerns and raise them at a community, council, state, federal or international level politically. I always thought Climate Action Brisbane would become this inbetween organising Walk Against Warming. Here are some things I'd like to see addressed:
- Air Conditioning our cities - places like Queens Plaza in the Brisbane CBD have MASSIVE openings that release air conditioned air thus forcing the machinery to work harder and thus consume more energy. I would like to see petitioning done at such shopping centers and presented to Building Managers and Brisbane City Council. We'd need to get statistics for this to be effective.
- Mens toilets in public buildings, RSLs and Clubs etc... still set to auto-flush every couple minutes (for perhaps 24 hours a day). These should be changed to waterless urinals or at least have sensors installed.
- Air conditioners in the city that are more than a couple years old (on top of multi-story buildings) use megalitres of water a day. WHY does the QLD government want to build an unwanted, unnecessary, corrupt and expensive (financially, environmentally and with climate change) dam given that they haven't even tackled these easier to solve problems?
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