Since candidates have started announcing they’d run for Ballarat City Council in October’s elections, BCAN have been sending out a survey designed to gauge how effectively they would lead and support council to reduce the impact of climate change.

In 2008 BREAZE ran a campaign to organise a Ballarat Regional Forum on Climate Change

Trentham Sustainability Group (TSG) is made up of local residents taking positive action to reduce the impact of climate change and peak oil. Our goal is to inspire, inform and support our local community to meet their needs without compromising the needs of future generations. Based in VIC.

A friendly and passionate local group affiliated with the worldwide Transition Towns movement. People get together to make positive change at a grassroots level. Aims of the movement include developing diverse responses and projects to address climate change and peak oil. Based in VIC.

Sustainable Hepburn Association – Renewing the Earth (SHARE) is a not-for-profit, non-political community association run by volunteers in VIC. SHARE is the initiating organisation (then HREA) of Australia’s first community owned windfarm Hepburn Wind in 2006. SHARE has now gone low key, but continues to collaborate and support other community sustainability groups behind the scenes.