Brendan Condon
Brendan is the director of four companies working in the sustainability field. These include:
Australian Ecosystems - an integrated company that offers a range of services in ecological land restoration aimed at enhancing and protecting biodiversity. The company provides five core areas of service; consultancy, nursery, revegetation, wetlands and landscape management/weed control. AE collects seed, propagates, plants and maintains locally indigenous plants and has planted over 20 million plants in the past decade on land restoration and water treatment projects around Victoria.
Director of the Cape Paterson Ecovillage project – a housing project near Phillip Island in Victoria aiming to construct 200 houses to be built to very high standards of sustainable architecture, energy and water conservation. The project is aiming to be operationally zero carbon through a combination of energy efficiency and onsite renewable energy generation. This project has been in planning for the past 7 years, and, it is hoped will come to fruition on 2011.
Acting honorary CEO of Safe Climate Australia, a not for profit launched by Al Gore in Melbourne in 2009, which aims to mobilise Australia’s extensive technological, economic and political expertise and resources in developing a comprehensive plan for steering Australia to a safe climate future, through developing strategies for decarbonisation of economic activity and the safe and large scale sequestration of carbon through agriculture. In November 2009 he directed a 6000 kilometer super marathon from Cape York to Melbourne with 25 fire fighters and police who were veterans of the 2009 Black Saturday fires. The run aimed to raise awareness on the impacts and solutions to global warming as well as funds for Safe Climate Australia.
Brendan also founded Climate Positive, a not-for-profit which works with businesses and households for real and long-term global warming solutions. Climate Positive works actively to provide tools to engage individuals and groups on global warming issues, to measure and reduce carbon footprints and to offset with high-quality projects.
Websites for further reference:
www.australianecosystems.com.au
www.capepatersonecovillage.com.au
