2nd Day Highlights 2005
LivCom
Awards
From the presentation of finalists
Saturday 5th November
Marrickville, Australia –
Playing The Game
Amongst a variety of initiatives that the delegation put
forward was the Community Board Game – a board game played,
particularly by children, which teaches them about their
local environment and about community responsibility.
STAMP or Start Again Mentoring Programme is a programme to
assist those released from prison to make the transition
back to the outside world.
The Magic Yellow Bus is a bus that travels from park to
park carrying children’s entertainment.
Another initiative was the concept of ‘legal walls’ for
Graffiti artists and routes by which the artists can apply
to businesses to make a legal wall
Kogarah Town
Square, Australia
The development, in the suburb of Sydney is at the cutting
edge of sustainable development and is community driven to
retain that ‘human’ feel. Many green initiatives have been
incorporated including solar powered technology built into
the regular roofing materials – allowing normal roofing
contractors to install it. The development has in large
part used recycled building materials and the developers do
not feel that any of these initiatives have increased the
cost of the development which has already achieved
$300,000,000 (AUS) in sales and over $2 million (AUS) in
green funding from the government.
Westminster,USA – Protecting
the Bald Eagles
The efforts that the city is making to protect the Bald
Eagles and the 16 eaglets by building specially designed
viewing areas was a good example of the efforts to maintain
and increase bio-diversity.
Stockport, England – WiFi in
the Park
Of particular interest to the audience was the concept of
Wireless Broadband facilities in parks to encourage people
to use the extensive outdoor spaces.
Changde, PR
China – 3km’s of Poetry
Only 20 years ago the Fairyland City covered an area of
less than 10sq km’s but now it has expanded to an area of
60sq. kms. The development of this city which is over 2,200
years old was presented to the judges and two initiatives in
particular caught the attention of the audience. The first
is the many uses for the flood defences including a 3km
‘Poetry Wall’ which is listed in the Guinness book of
records. The other was the use of grass on external roofs
and walls which lowers the internal temperature by as much
as 5%.
Kecskemet,
Hungary – going green
This community is surrounded by sand with little or no top
soil but offer a real beacon of hope to other sandy
communities through the initiatives they have undertaken to
include extensive green areas.
Coventry, England – planting
trees for emissions
Amongst a catalogue of exciting initiatives which the
Coventry delegation used to exemplify the judging criteria
was a concept whereby they calculate the emissions used in
trips against a format which shows the number of trees that
should be planted to compensate for the emissions.
The delegation also outlined an innovative recycling
programme where they refurbish residences old hand tools and
send them to developing countries. In the last 12 months,
20 tons have been refurbished in this way.
The awards will be presented on the evening of Monday, 7th
November by the US representative of the UN Environment
Programme. For further information please see the website
at
www.livcomawards.com or email
candyb.hpim@easynet.co.uk
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