About me

Howdy,

I am a long-time environmental practitioner with a varied, wide and interesting career in all aspects of environmental management. My background includes agriculture, cropping, pastoralist and grain work, many traditional environment projects of revegetation and biodiversity and in the last twenty years, extensive work in the urban environment.

In the water sector specifically, I worked on a water quality improvement plan, urban and rural water catchments, the River Murray, water-sensitive urban design and understanding how to use water where it falls to produce cool environments and increase biodiversity in the urban world.

Understanding these dynamics leads to finding more ways to mitigate and adapt to climate change and understanding how the urban ecosystem needs to work together to achieve the gains necessary for our future. For the Rural City of Murray Bridge I completed these projects and plans:

• Environment Management Plan
• Environment Risk Register
• Climate Emergency Action Plan
• incorporated climate change projections into all environmental planning
• A Construction Environment Management Plan
• Successfully bid for a $374 000 grant to replace all street lights with LEDs
• Moved 14 tonnes annually of nursing home food waste from landfill to FOGO, on the back of a successful grant application from Green Industries.
• Installed a recycling hub in the local library for small e-waste, spectacles and bottle caps
• Contributed data and knowledge to the Local Government Association’s early work on measuring Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions
• Worked on developing learning materials for executive and elected members on climate change knowledge
• Won the 2024 KESAB award for regional communities for a range of work improving environmental outcomes for Murray Bridge.
• Supported Rotary to recycle over 2 tonnes of blister packs
• initiated, researched and submitted many motions from Council to the Murray Darling Association AGM
• Represented the Rural City on many committees, projects and initiatives.