David Baggs is a multi-award winning architect, sustainability, energy-efficiency and eco-materials consultant with three decades experience in sustainable development.
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We post short overviews of individuals who have contributed to awareness, development or promotion of renewable energy, sustainability, environmental or modern ideas. These Australian individuals have put effort into spreading the word about sustainable living, renewable energy or environmental issues through their actions. No matter how big or small a difference any one of these people has made they are good examples of pro-active people that are working towards an efficient and healthy future for our planet.
If you know someone who should be featured here please drop us a line – there are many people working anonymously behind the scenes to create change in Australia and many of them will go unsung.
Here are a few Australian Eco Citizens:
Magdalena Roze
March 18th, 2013
Having a name with biblical connotations, Magdalena Roze, it could be argued, might just be our saviour. Firstly, she’s earned a number of accolades in atmospheric science, and she’s now an ambassador… Read More…
Robert Purves, businessman and environmentalist
March 11th, 2013
Robert Purves is both an investor and a highly recognised and awarded environmentalist. While it’s great that there are hands-on environmentalists – those that are on the ground and in the fields,… Read More…
Larissa Brown spearheading sustainability leadership
March 4th, 2013
Larissa Brown is a climate change researcher and strategist specializing in public opinion, politics and social movements. With a Bachelor of Environmental Science degree from the University of Melbourne,… Read More…
Ian Kiernan Founder of Clean Up Australia
February 25th, 2013
Ian Kiernan is the founder of Australia’s biggest community-based environmental event, Clean Up Australia. It all started in 1989 when Ian Kiernan, a quintessential Australian bloke and solo yachtsman… Read More…
Sarah White Environmental Educational Officer
February 18th, 2013
Sarah White is a 35-year-old Environmental Educational Officer. In layman’s terms, Sarah is an outdoor education teacher that gets to share and teach all about her driving passion – the environment… Read More…
Daniel Morrison – Peats Ridge Festival
February 11th, 2013
Touting itself as a sustainable arts & music festival and an events leader in sustainability, Peats Ridge Festival has certainly evolved from its humble beginnings as a micro music event in the Glenworth… Read More…
Paul Watson Sea Shepherd founder
February 4th, 2013
Former president and founder of Sea Shepherd, Paul Watson has stepped down from the leadership and captaincy of the SS Steve Irwin in January 2013. The confrontational conservationists have recently been… Read More…
The award-winning Professor Veena Sahajwalla
January 22nd, 2013
Professor Veena Sahajwalla is the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology at the University of New South Wales. Passionate about her research on Sustainable Materials… Read More…
Anna Rose
December 26th, 2012
At the age of 14, when many girls were gossiping about boys or engaging in a game of netball, Anna Rose was setting up recycling and composting systems, and devising her own sport entitled “environmental… Read More…
