UniSC Sustainability Week - Market Day

Zero Emissions Noosa is really proud to be part of UniSC’s Sustainability week. We love and applaud the initiatives in the energy sphere with massive solar PV and your fabulous water battery.

Find out more about us on our website and through our socials.

Drop us an email to ask for more info or let us know what area you’d like to help us with

Only 25 bucks to join. We can’t give a long list of discount specials but your donation will sure help us cover our meagre overheads

our social channels

ZEN is active on Facebook, Instagram and has created a Linkedin presence. We’ve also created videos of some of our events on our YouTube channel.

We’ve got a dedicated team of Bruna, Duncan, Geoff & Meghan who curate our socials, but we could always do with more help, especially to reach a younger demographic - as you are the future ! And not forgetting Pam who produces our newsletter and does website updates.

We’ve most active on Facebook - posting daily and generally reaching more than 1,000 sets of eyeballs each day more or less. We aim to educate, celebrate and inspire. See our “policy” which sets out what and why we do it. Duncan & Geoff mainly look after this with help from Meghan.

Bruna has joined us recently and is getting our Instagram channel going, and we’re hoping our reach will expand !

Bruna’s also created our Linkedin page, but we’re concentrating on building up our Instagram presence first, and Linkedin’s a bit of a pain not being able to schedule posts.

People reached for August 2022. Can you help us grow these ?

We like and use Canva who have granted us a no-cost not-for-profit licence

All the Google tools in our not-for-profit licence

“If you’d like to help us to reach a younger demographic, and you can spare some time and energy, we’d love to hear from you”

Meet our socials & Website team

Music – drums – has been Duncan’s driver in life since he was very young. Plus he’s a photographer, does our videos and ZEN socials

Meghan and daughter are Koala Crusaders and Meghan looks after ZEN’s Community Engagement

Here’s Bruna. She’s excited ‘cos she’s a co-author of a book about Brazil’s environmental laws which just got published She’s great with Canva and is our Instagram curator

Geoff just bought a new car ! He’s busy with our socials, data analysis and ZEN’s Community batteries initiative

Pam’s an open source enthusiast and is very active member of the Drupol community. She produces our newsletters and makes changes to our websote

THIS COULD BE YOU !

OR YOU !

our website + email campaigns + EVENTS

Our website will hopefully inform, and you can check out our email newsletters and we post about the fabulous media exposure we get.

We’re really grateful that our local weekly Noosa Today gives us a free column every fortnight, and the great hinterland monthly Your Local Lifestyle

“Gor a passion for journalism and writing engaging content

or fancy helping with our website ?

we’d love to hear from you”

Web design, content management and hosting

Email marketing

our data analysis

If you want to reach a target like we do for zero emissions in the Noosa LGA, you have to be able to quantify the size of the task, what needs to be done, and how you are progressing towards it.

As electricity generation is the largest contributor to our CO2 emissions, there has been focus in this area, and this is helped by the wealth of publically available data.

Whilst we’re advanced compared to other community groups, there’s much more to be done, and we’re approaching this in a way that can be extended to other communities.

So we’re looking for enthusiastic and skilled help in this area, ie people with data science learnings.

Open source R for our data science

Do you have ?

  • Enthusiasm

  • R programming, R markdown, etc

  • Shiny

  • Data Science

  • Ideas to present information simply & effectively

Could you help us improve ?

Wow looks at all that solar export. Wouldn’t it be great to capture it with community batteries so it can be used at night !

Sample of some of our data analysis from a wide range of sources

Our local solar installers are busy putting up to 1,000 kW of solar on roofs every month.

The total solar in Noosa is around 4 times the size of the Sunshine Coast Council’s Solar Farm at Valdora

our community batteries Initiative

We think the case for community batteries is obvious.

Wouldn’t it be great if the excess rooftop solar that is generated could be stored for use when the sun goes down.

Generate locally, store locally and use locally.

“Powered by the sun at night”

We’ve been working with leaders in this emerging field for over a year now, and have submitted a grant proposal with the grandiose title - Business Plan for a Network of Community Batteries in the Noosa LGA.

Yarra Energy Foundation’s first community battery

There will be lots of opportunities for volunteers

  • a co-design approach with our community

  • example of micro-tasking - find places suitable for community batteries

    • based on aerial maps - how much solar

    • electricity network - where are the LV feeders

    • is there community support

    • we have a model to follow

  • infographic design to simply articulate our messages

You could also say that this data shows the number of days in a year when this community was running at 100% or more Renewable Energy (for at least some time)

Cooran Zone Substation is located just north of Pomona

Gallery of some of what we’re done recently

 

Zero Emissions Noosa is supported by Noosa Council via their grants program

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