Residential projects

Northern Metropolitan Sustainability Street
With funding from the Victorian Government's Community Support Fund, NAGA is delivering the 3 year 'Strengthening Communities - Sustainability Street Northern Metropolitan Melbourne Community Greenhouse Action'. The project is exciting as it brings together the twin objectives of community building and sustainable living (focused on waste, water and energy). The project is delivered in partnership with Vox Bandicoot across the NAGA region in the Cities of Darebin, Melbourne, Moreland and Whittlesea and is one of the most exciting opportunities to achieve a ''critical mass'' of community capacity building, greenhouse action, sustainability innovation and neighbourhood linking in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.

Carbon Neutral Communities
NAGA is one of the industry partners for the Carbon Neutral Communities research project (2007-2009) being led by RMIT's Centre for Design. The project is funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant.
The research aims to:
1. Identify carbon neutral potential, and social, economic, cultural and capacity barriers to achieving this potential;
2. Assess the application of established techniques to address such barriers and provide practical solutions to carbon transition;
3. Develop and test strategies for building the capacity needed to facilitate the breakthrough required in achieving carbon neutral communities by 2020, the key date in The National Greenhouse Strategy ; and
4. Disseminate this knowledge to project stakeholders and the wider community.
For more information on the research project click on this link to the CNC website

Home Energy Action
In 2003, NAGA received funding from DSE's Community Action Fund to deliver the Home Energy Action project that focused on training community volunteers and council officers to enable them to undertake energy audits.
As part of the Home Energy Assessment Training, 44 trainees completed the training, and 30 homes were audited in each of 6 NAGA municipalities. Post program feedback surveys indicated that participating households were reducing emissions by an average of 10%.