How a small team can influence a much wider community
John Thompson from Mitchell Community Energy Inc. speaks to us about the challenge of creating change in rural Shires with widespread townships
Mitchell Community Energy faced the obstacles of only having a small group of members to support their project & whilst they wanted to create change across the whole of the Mitchell Shire, they realised, with towns so spread out, this was physically impossible, in one push
The solution was to focus on their one town of Seymour & create a successful model which included bringing in influencers from different industries to impact renewable energy in their town. This model could then be translated to other communities !!
Making a change in communities often requires a sideways approach. Listen in to hear how Mitchell Community Energy created solutions by thinking outside the box!
If you’d like support to start, grow or participate more actively – in a local community project, you can register for our upcoming Expand Your Impact workshops today:
- Free places for environment, sustainability & community energy ideas here https://events.humanitix.com/indigo-eyi-2024
- Free & highly subsidised places for other community projects here: https://events.humanitix.com/host/eyi-2024
Find out more: https://makeachange.org.au/indigo-eyi or www.makeachange.org.au
