and our Region of North Queensland

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4 and our Region of North Queensland

5 What is the role of ecotourism in the world?

6 and what is happening in the world?

7 Climate Change Species loss Technology advances Culture changes Global rubbish and plastics Terrorism

8 So what is the role of Ecotourism? And how does Ecotourism stay relevant in this global age climate change impact; global pollution and plastics; advanced technology and AI; culture change; recurring terrorism; and catastrophic species loss Achieving sustainability does not mean slowing down our economy. It means speeding it up, and directing its energy toward the redesign and redevelopment of the systems that are the cause of our dilemma. Alan AtKisson, Believing Cassandra (1999)

9 And what would this mean for Townsville and our region of North Queensland as a Sustainable Destination

10 A community-based learning journey in visioning and uncovering the hidden world of sustainability And taking action 2006 sustainability accelerator 2009 Smart Grid Smart City 2011 Townsville Smarter Cities (IBM)

11 » Townsville is Queensland s largest regional City home to c. 187,000 people and covering a combined urban-rural area of c km 2

12 Townsville the Place

13 Understanding and interpreting our local world and developing an integrated learning program developing towards becoming Sustainable Destination Townsville s story Interpretation Learnscape Origins Townsville as a Learnscape Transects and Storylines Supporting frameworks for action CBSM (Community Based Social Marketing) Thematic Communication Collective Social Learning Experiential Learning Smart Technology integration

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15 Townsville eco-catchments & education program from Creek to Coral

16 Generating Tourism Opportunities in Regional Cities through delivering Sustainability and Resilience

17 Townsville City Council has included an integrated approach to sustainability for more than 20 years now integrating energy, water, biology and people

18 The current TCC Environment and Sustainability program supports sustainable destination and developing ecotourism development through an integrated approach, via the following programs Environmental Building restoring ecosystems and environments Environmental Systems - environmental management and data Sustainable Solutions tropicalised, safe, fit for purpose, lower cost and higher energy efficient ; City Energy integrated energy efficiency, demand management, behaviour change and renewables

19 City wide initiatives supporting Ecotourism Jezzine, Rowes Bay to Pallarenda Aboriginal Plant Trial Rowes Bay Sustainability Centre Military Wetlands Borrow Pits to Rowes Bay City Learnscape Magnetic Island Solar Suburb Cromarty and Serpentine Lagoon Wetlands including tropical savannas, wetlands and wet tropical rainforests of Mt Elliot Wet Tropics World Heritage Area from Bluewater to Paluma (30 km west of the Strand)

20 Wet Tropics Bioregion of North Queensland Wet tropics bioregional boundary within Townsville City Council LGA

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28 Townsville City Council CBD Admin Building and Sustainable House retrofit (Rowes Bay)

29 Push and Pull of Migration Professor Jane James Emeritus Professor Flinders University

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33 An Integrated Sustainability Model of Technology-Ecology-Culture and People. consisting of our societies knowledge and collaborative actions

34 We have been utilising, developing and building on recognised cognitive psychology approaches Communications, behaviour change and learning >> Community Based Social Marketing (CBSM) >> Thematic Communication

35 >> Educating audience about the theme Like a NO SMOKING sign, the 6-9 icon communicates the demand side management message in a simple and effective way!

36 Collective Social Learning and Knowledges Lemrick cartoon (from Professor Valerie Brown presentation)

37 Patterned Knowledges Val Brown

38 >> Patterned Knowledges Professor Val Brown

39 >> Patterned Knowledges Professor Val Brown

40 Learning Cities (Urban Age Institute and Tim Campbell, PhD) >> The problem of achieving sustainable cities is not merely one of technology transfer. >> learning cities are able to create and draw on stored memory that consists of shared experiences between and among people who take part in the learning process From Cities on the Rise: Lessons in Becoming Sustainable (Urban Age Institute) Peter Senge and his coffee cup

41 Townsville Integrated Learnscapes TCC; Energy Utility; Developer and Researcher (TNEP)

42 Townsville as a Learnscape: Transect

43 Townsville as a Learnscape: Transect

44 and developing city-wide learnscapes to cover tourism, business, industry and sustainability and educate visitors, tourists and residents

45 So that is the framework What have we done to contribute more broadly to a Sustainable Destination and where are we going from here. In sustainability and ecotourism

46 Townsville Solar City Project

47 46% demand management

48 Sustainability in Practice retrofitting old stock, and learnings relevant to supporting tourism industry

49 Supporting CBD Activation, innovation energy efficiency and effectiveness, tourist safety, interest and data

50 applying thematic communications into our city energy Network Demand Management and Solar City Objectives: 1. To increase awareness about Energy Demand Management and Peak Demand within Townsville City Council 2. To empower staff to reduce demand in the workplace (by switching off lights and monitors when they leave the room)

51 Residential Energy Demand Management Objectives: 1. To empower home owners to have their roofs painted with a white reflective coating 2. To have home owners to plant shade trees on the western side of homes 3. To encourage owners to replace their electric hot water system with solar hot water or heat pump

52 The Eco-City Experience Bringing it all back together Objectives: 1. Building on the work the Eco-City Experience) and bringing all the work done over the week together linking everything back to the BIG PICTURE And all future projects tell a connected story at each level like chapters in an Eco-City Storybook of Townsville.

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55 Learning and developing our approach to feeling the city integrating energy, water, biology and people

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57 City Whisperers. how commercial and tourism buildings tells us about the way we live and work

58 and how our learnings from discovering key faults in our buildings can assist building sustainable destinations and reducing tourism infrastructure costs into the long term.

59 Understanding our building stock and where the savings come from requires granular data to uncover hidden patterns example from a commercial building in Townsville used as a visitor art gallery, Federation Place

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61 and involving kids, residents and visitors (tourists) Learning to feel our cities and tourism destinations

62 Involving young people in STEM activities and tourists too?

63 CIEE Study Abroad in Spain (Bronx, City University of New York) Taking the message wider and learning to feel the city with people and technology

64 Building infrastructure for tourists and residents

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66 Magnetic Island whole of island community pilot with Department of Environment & Science for decarbonising the GBR islands Audit of sustainability Analysis assessment Business Cases - develop

67 Building Sustainable Destination Workshop a community approach Townsville environmental community supporting 10 international delegates Backpack Sensor kits training and deployment feeling the city Linking with tourism business and hosting eco-tours of the city City of Townsville supporting tourism business and industry

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