To sustainability, and beyond! Welcome to Mission Possible Group
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Welcome to our blog! This is Mission Possible’s space for sharing news about our activities and achievements, as well as information to support everyone in our wider, online community who has a passion for ensuring a green, sustainable future for our beautiful planet.
What is Mission Possible?
As this is our first post, here’s a little bit about us. We are a small group of enthusiastic volunteers, originally convened by the City of Charles Sturt in 2023 to draft an action plan to support emissions reduction in our community. Our plan was completed and endorsed by Council in 2024, after which we decided to use the skills and knowledge we had gained to help others in the community who wanted to live life a little greener, or cheaper, or both. The group currently numbers between 8 to 9 members who live, work or are otherwise associated with the Charles Sturt Community. Group members are diverse in background and experience but all of us share a passion and commitment to supporting a more sustainable future.
What we do
In our short time together, we’ve done a lot! Highlights to date include:
- launching our Action Plan
- building and publishing a website and social media presence via Facebook and Instagram
- becoming auspiced by Sustainable Communities South Australia
- launching our ‘Energy Advisory Service’ sessions, hosted through the City of Charles Sturt’s Sustainability Saturdays
- volunteering around 200 collective hours to community events.
We have built networks with other groups with similar interests in community engagement activities, including:
- With Green Adelaide, presenting our first ‘Wildlife Gardening’ workshop and starting to develop a plan to create a ‘Gardens for Wildlife’ program
- With Foodbank, finding ways to support vulnerable community members cope with the cost-of-living crisis
- With Sustainable House Day 2025, running a stall to promote our ‘Energy Advisory Service’ and a panel discussion event
With the City of Marion, presenting Q&A sessions and talks at the Financial Resilience Workshops
Why we do it
Our work benefits the community by educating community members about how to live more sustainably, and about how sustainable living contributes to financial resilience and brings other benefits such as improved wellbeing. We do this by actively networking with other groups and the community generally to promote discussion and provide information about improved sustainability, and using the lived experience of our group’s members to model and promote sustainable practice.
Want to get involved?
We welcome interested members of the community to sit in on one of our meetings and find out more about how you can help. You can contact us here!
But don’t stop now – We also have a Facebook page and an Insta account. Follow us and show some love!