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12 Gates to the City - sustainable urban areas (US)
- Written by Francesca Lyman, this article explores twelve ideas to build strong, livable and sustainable urban areas
A Guide to setting up a Community Garden
- Practical advice on how to set up a community garden developed by the Community Gardens Network - Russ Grayson and Fiona Campbell
Aboriginal Housing for Health
- Housing for Health is a copyright methodology for improving living conditions in Aboriginal communities.
Active Living by Design Community Resources
- Active Living by Design is a national US program to provide leadership in promoting environments that offer choices for active, healthy living.
Active Ontario Toolkits
- Useful tools for all those who work in community sport, fitness, and recreation settings, whether they are leaders, coaches, instructors, supervisors or policy-makers.
Australian Building Greenhouse Rating Scheme
- The Australian Building Greenhouse Rating (ABGR) scheme provides accredited assessments of the greenhouse intensity of office buildings by awarding a star rating on a scale of one to five.
Australian Community Gardens Network
- The Australian Community Gardens Network is an informal, community-based organisation linking people interested in community gardening across Australia.
Australian Greenhouse Office, Department of Environment and Heritage
- The Australian Greenhouse Office, part of the Federal Government’s Department of the Environment and Heritage, delivers the majority of programs under the Australian Government’s $1.8 billion climate change strategy.
Australian Indigenous Health InfoNet
- "Our mission is to contribute to improving the health of Australia's Indigenous people by making relevant, high quality knowledge and information easily accessible"
Australian Red Cross Blood Service
- The Australian Red Cross Blood Service is the national organisation responsible for the provision of quality blood products, tissues and related services to the Australian community.
Blue Light Website
- Blue Light is a successful international community policing initiative that aims to provide an opportunity for young people to be involved in a variety of entertainments that assist the police to rectify the imbalance of pro-active and re-active policing where young people are concerned. It does this by providing young people with positive lifestyle alternatives and strategies to avoid becoming an offender or victim of crime.
Breast cancer in men website.
- The National Breast Cancer Centre has developed a breast cancer in men website.
Bubaa Ngambaa Gaayili, Father Mother Child
- A book for Aboriginal parents and family workers in the New England Area. It gives simple advice about raising children aged 0-5 years to help them have a good start to a healthy life.
Building Sustainability Index for NSW homes
- A web-based planning tool designed to assess the potential performance of new homes against a range of sustainability indices is now part of the development approval process in NSW.
Built Environment
- In support of the Year of the Built Environment (2004) communitybuilders.nsw put together a list of resources which can be found on our website and which remain relevant for the built environment.
Bushfire Information, NSW
- Preparing for bushfires and bushfire services information.
Cabramatta CityWatch Council
- The Cabramatta CityWatch project encourages local community members from Cabramatta to create interest groups that focus on issues of concern within their local community.
Child Safety on Farms
- Safety for children on farms is a major concern which this website addresses by providing farm families, managers, workers and visitors to farms with information and resources to prevent injury to children on farms.
Children and Young People's Safety and Wellbeing
- The Commission for Children and Young People has released a series of topical and interesting information sheets related to children and young people's safety and wellbeing.
Co-operative Rental Housing in NSW
- The who, what, why and how of rental housing co-operatives from ARCH, a peak body for ental co-operative housing in NSW
Committee Kit - A Guide to Running Events for Young People
- Prepared by the Independent Entertainment Network for Young People in NSW, this kit outlines tasks you will need to think about from booking venues, licensing and security, to all aspects of event promotion and production.
Community Foods website
- Australian Community Foods Inc. is a small non-profit corporation dedicated to developing, implementing, and promoting appropriate web-based technologies to support local food networks.
Community Partnerships Kit
- A resource for groups wishing to undertake community action to prevent illicit drug use or address use where it occurs.
Community Renewal in Public Housing
- Reclaiming communities for people - A NSW Department of Housing perspective.
Crime Prevention Division NSW Attorney General's Department
- The Crime Prevention Division is responsible for providing advice and implementing programs that relate to the prevention of crime, offending and victimisation around NSW.
Crime Prevention Fact Sheets
- These fact sheets have been developed by CHD Partners as a result of their work with local government on crime prevention
Crime Reduction Toolkits
- The UK Government's Crime Prevention Strategy includes a series of 22 online Toolkits designed to help all those involved in crime reduction to work as effectively as possible.
Disaster preparedness and response
- A list of websites to agencies that can help in time of disaster and disaster recovery.
Doordarnbee Muggy Jarjums: Growing Up Strong Jarjums
- Doordarnbee Muggy Jarjums: Growing Up Strong Jarjums is a book for Aboriginal parents and family workers on the Far North Coast. It gives simple advice about raising children aged 0-5 years to help them have a good start to a healthy life.
Easy Guides for Living Sustainably
- The NSW Government has provided Easy Guides for living sustainably at home, at work and in the community.
Environmental Sustainability Kit
- The Environmental Sustainability Kit is a set of tools, ideas, procedures, and resources to help local leaders, residents, and businesses work toward making their own communities more sustainable.
Environmental and sustainability resources from the NSW Department of Environment and Conservation
- Environment and sustainability resources for industry, state and local government, teachers and students and the community
Event Organisers Checklist
- The following checklist from the Queensland Government’s Department of Communities will assist you in planning your event.
Fitness Programs for people of all sizes: a commentary by Chloe Mason
- A recent communitybuilders.nsw Discussion Forum Topic on Starting a Fitness Program for large women has prompted Chloe Mason to argue that ALL people need fitness programs because almost half the people in every region in NSW are not sufficiently active to protect their health.
Girls With A Purpose Facilitator's Manual
- A resource that helps young women develop self worth, a positive identity and sense of purpose.
Good Practice Guide for Community Gardens
- This practical and comprehensive manual, produced by Cultivating Community, is designed to assist organisations to get gardens going.
Graffiti Solutions program
- The Premier launched the New South Wales Government's Graffiti Solutions program in June 1997. The program seeks to improve coordination at all levels of Government and the community and build partnerships with Local Government and industry.
Graffiti – A Community Initiative in Greater Geelong
- Based on a strong commitment to community involvement, the Graffiti Strategy is framed around three key elements: rapid removal, prevention and policing.
Grandparents Raising Granchildren website
- This website has been designed as a resource point for grandparents who are raising their grandchildren in NSW.
Green Building Council of Australia
- The Green Building Council of Australia aims to develop a sustainable property industry for Australia and drive the adoption of green building practices through market-based solutions.
Greening Your Office
- Simple ways to make your workplace environmentally-friendly.
Growing Up Strong Guring
- A book for Aboriginal parents and family workers in the Inner West of Sydney. It gives simple advice about raising children aged 0-5 years to help them have a good start to a healthy life.
Guidelines for using Closed Circuit Television in Public Places.
- A practical gude to implementing CCTV in local communities as a part of a multi-pronged strategy for reducing crime.
Hawkesbury EarthCare Centre
- Hawkesbury EarthCare Centre serves as a focus and gathering place for people learning and working together for responsible stewardship of the earth.
Health Promotion Capacity Building
- From the Health NSW website, this Capacity Building section focuses on capacity building in health promotion.
How Green is Your Home? - Quiz
- Find out your home’s overall environmental impact, and where you can improve the most with this online quiz from the Australian Consumer Association.
Introduction to Safer Design Guidelines
- The Victorian government has launched an Introduction to Safer Design Guidelines to raise awareness about the need to consider safety in urban design and planning.
Kings Cross Licensing Accord
- The Kings Cross Licensing Accord aims to improve the safety and amenity of Kings Cross in collaboration with the licensees in the broader Kings Cross area.
Mutual Help Groups, Well Being and Mental Health
- Mutual help groups provide an important gateway to wellbeing and mental health, according to a West Australian study,
NSW Greenhouse Plan 2005
- The NSW Government has released a 'Greenhouse Plan' that sets out action for the next three years and beyond, to reduce the emissions of its own activities and to work with other stakeholders to reduce the emissions from their activities.
Neighbourhood Character
- Analysis as a technique to assist with neighbourhood planning.
No Regrets - Safe Party Tips - booklet for young people.
- A group of northern Sydney Local Council's has produced a safe partying booklet aimed at young people and parents living in these council areas.
Parenting Websites
- There are a range of websites that contain high quality, accessible information on a range of parenting topics.
Planet Ark
- Planet Ark's aim is to show people and business the many ways that they can reduce their day to day impact on the environment.
Producing and Using Transport Access Guides
- This brochure gives helpful advice on producing transport access guides that let people know how to get to your premises or venue by energy-smart modes of travel.
Resources for Safe and Healthy Koori Communities
- Aboriginal Safety Promotion Officers from the Shoalhaven Aboriginal Safe Community Partnership have produced an anti-depression Toolkit and a Fire Safe poster to help promote a safe and healthy community.
Rural and Remote Health e-Journal
- An international electronic journal committed to providing an easily accessible peer-reviewed evidence base for rural and remote health.
Safe Communities in NSW - a Guide to developing a Safe Communities Coalition
- Adopting the "Safe Community" model enables communities to identify and implement local solutions to local safety issues. This step by step guide includes practical examples and is a useful tool for workers looking to implement the Safe Communities model.
Safe Party Packs
- Griffith and Leeton CDATs in conjunction with Griffith Police LAC and Griffith Lead On have produced a youth friendly information guide to conducting and attending parties.
Safer Cities Tools from the United Nations Habitat Program
- The Safer Cities Program, in collaboration with its partners in the different projects and through international co-operation, has developed a set of tools to deal with crime in urban areas.
Safer celebrations - a planning guide for event managers in NSW
- Use this practical, online guide to make sure you cover all legal and safety requirements when planning an event where alcohol will be provided. It is also a useful guide for planning any large event.
Safety and Emergency Information Website
- SAFETYvictoria, a Victorian Government website, draws together information from a wide range of organisations that is also useful for people in other Australian states.
Shopping Centre Security Guards and Young People: Resource Manual and Self-Paced Learning Package
- This training resource for shopping centre security guards is produced by The Youth Action & Policy Association (YAPA) NSW.
Slow Food, Slow Cities
- Cities where the living is easy.
Sustainability Street – local communities, local action
- The central idea of the Sustainability Street Approach is that people get together as local communities, learn a bit about ecological sustainability and then do what they can to encourage, assist or 'teach' other individuals or other communities to join the groundswell for ecological sustainability.
Sustainable urban design and climate
- A paper by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology outlining what cities do to local climate, what city climates do to people, and the rewards of designing with climate
The Green Directory (Australia)
- The Green Directory is one of Australia's leading online eco-directories listing products and services that are eco-friendly and promote sustainability.
The Green Map - a community garden directory of Melbourne
- The Green Map provides information on the scale and substance of community gardens across metropolitan Melbourne.
Under cover: Guidelines for shade planning and design to prevent skin cancer
- Developed by the NSW Cancer Council and NSW Department of Health.
Understanding Sprawl - David Suzuki Foundation Report and action Toolkit
- The David Suzuki Foundation's report, "Understanding Sprawl", and toolkit "Driven to Action" encourage communities to reshape urban areas.
Urban Design Guidelines with Young People in Mind
- Making public areas youth friendly and more attractive and welcoming for everybody
Urban Villages and New Urbanism
- New Urbanism is an important planning movement this century. It is an international movement to reform the design of the built environment to create new “urban villages” that will improve quality of life and standard of living by creating better places to live.
Walking School Bus – A Guide for Parents and Teachers
- Travel Smart Australia has developed a Walking School Bus Guide prepared for school communities throughout Australia. This guide explains the concept to parents and teachers of primary school aged children, and assists with information about how to join, or how to set up a walking school bus program in your school.
Walking and Cycling Planning Guidelines NSW
- The Planning Guidelines for Walking & Cycling are a key project of the NSW Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources and aim to assist urban planners to prioritise walking and cycling in key areas of their work.
Waste Wise Events Guide - Website
- This one stop shop site offers a 7 step guide to planning and implementing an effective waste management and recycling program at your next event.
Young People and Shopping Centres Protocol
- "Creating the Space for Dialogue, a local youth shopping centre protocol", is a useful guide for those wanting to involve key groups in developing a protocol for their local shopping centre.
Your Future Starts Now - A Guide for over 50s
- This booklet contains important information about what you can do to make sure your wishes will be carried out and how to protect your interests, making sure your future is in good hands and things are done the way you want.

Case Studies

Bronte Catchment Project
- Community involvement and ownership made the Bronte Catchment Project part of an Australian first in environmental management.
Driver Fatigue Alert – A NSW Safe Communities Project
- The Driver Fatigue Alert project aims to make motorists aware of fatigue indicators and encourages them to take a break every two hours.
Enhancing Water Safety – A NSW Safe Communities Project
- The lifeguards in Kiama have been visiting the local primary schools for several years coming up to the long summer holidays with surf safety messages.
Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Kids Project
- This project supports local initiatives and projects which aim to minimise childrens' exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in the homes and cars of NSW.
Fit to Function - a Gentle Exercise Workshop – A NSW Safe Communities Project
- The Gundagai Safe Communities Project aimed to improve the physical activity opportunities for older adults in the community through providing gentle exercise/activity program training for people working with the less able to reduce the physical, social and psychological problems associated with reduced activity.
HIV 0 FOOTBALL 1 in Nigeria
- Football matches provide an opportunity to teach people about prevention of HIV/AIDS in the town of Mgbala Agwa in South Eastern Nigeria.
Jungle Patrol Community Safety Inc. Nimbin Northern NSW
- The Jungle Patrol is a non-profit community organisation, focused on crime prevention, community safety, generation of local employment and community ownership.
Keep-Watch Drowning Prevention Project – A NSW Safe Communities Project
- Drowning deaths and near drowning incidents are not confined to any particular socio-demographic group, age, gender or nationally, although males drown at four times the rate of females.
Kitchen Garden, Collingwood College, Melbourne
- An extensive vegetable garden has been constructed in the grounds of Collingwood College and has become the focal point for an innovative gardening and cooking program conceived by Stephanie Alexander.
Linking environment, social and economic action for local sustainability in Lake Macquarie
- The Quigley Environmental Sustainability Team project builds an environmental sustainability project into the Booragul Bolton Point Community Renewal project to engage local householders, schools and businesses in action to improve the local environment alongside a wide array of social and economic development projects.
Making a Start - Waterloo Community Gardeners turn the first sod
- This case study follows the progress of Waterloo Community Garden which turned its first sod in 1991.
Mall Walking – A NSW Safe Communities Project
- Within the community of Kiama, there are socially isolated older people who do not exercise as much as we would wish.
Mayfield on the Move - Developing a Sustainable Retail Environment
- Kathie Heyman’s community showcase at the NSW Department of State and Regional Development Community Economic Development Conference describing how the community of Mayfield, an inner suburb of Newcastle got together and developed a sustainable retail environment, delivering for the community needs and aspirations.
Northcott – observations of community and cultural development in a public housing estate
- "What have they done there? 2 years at Northcott: An Observation of a Work in Progress" by Emily Mayo in consultation with all partners (December 2004) illustrates a process of community and cultural development in an inner-city Sydney public housing estate, part of the state’s largest cluster of Department of Housing stock.
One Umbrella - Food Collection and Distribution
- One Umbrella is a unique organisation which collects food that cannot be used and turns it into nutritious meals for the homeless and hungry of Melbourne.
Partnerships for Parks (US) - by Chris Walker
- Lessons from an urban parks program featuring partnerships between public agencies and non-profit groups
Resource for Urban Design Information (RUDI)
- UK website featuring a collection of international case studies focussing on good practice in urban design.
Shoalhaven Aboriginal Safe Community Partnership
- Shoalhaven Aboriginal Safe Community Partnership has launched its own community web discussion group. SASCP members work together to promote a healthy and safe Koori community.
Sports Injuries Audit – A NSW Safe Communities Project
- A Sports Injury Task Force was developed which aimed to reduce the incidence of sport-related injury and mortality by building the capacity of sporting organisations to adopt appropriate risk management practices.
Traffic Offender Program – A NSW Safe Communities Project
- Medium to high range drink drivers are offered the chance to attend the eight-week Traffic Offender Program (TOP) on a voluntary basis.
Vietnam Organic Garden Wins Award
- An organic vegetable garden established for people affected by agent orange in Vietnam has been named a winner in the Vietnam Innovation Day for environmental projects.

Related Reading

A Bountiful Harvest: Community Gardens and Neighbourhood Renewal in Waterloo
- This report details research funded by the University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment which examines the community gardens in the Waterloo Public Housing Estate in Sydney.
Active Living by Design presentations on healthy communities
- The Active Living by Design website contains a number of presentations on place, environment, public health and transport and their role in creating or impeding an active and healthy lifestyle.
Broken Bodies - Broken Dreams: Violence Against Women Exposed
- This book offers a powerful testimony of the different types of gender-based violence experienced by women and girls worldwide, through the use of photographs, individual case studies and illustrative text.
Children’s and Family Services Working Together – Conference keynote address
- The keynote address at The Mobile Children's Services Association of NSW (MCSA) conference in August 2003 entitled "When love is not enough: Children's and family services working together to support children and families" was given by Jane Woodruff [CEO, Burnside] on the major theme of connecting 'children's services' to family support services.
Community Buildings
- Community buildings often provide the vehicle through which social capital is nurtured and developed - where people establish networks, develop community trust and build co-operation for mutual benefit.
Ecological Footprint of Nations report – 2004
- A measurement of the Footprints of 130 countries
First Aid Services
- A list of organisations that provide first aid services for community events.
Inquiry into Sustainable Australian Cities
- This report from the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Heritage reports on issues and policies related to the development of sustainable cities to the year 2025.
Limits to Urban Consolidation by Dr. Glen Searle.
- This Urban Frontiers Program paper examines the constraints on urban consolidation, a policy which has been adopted as the major planning policy in Australia’s largest cities for the last two decades.
Mental Health Services in Australia 2003-04
- Read the latest Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report on mental health services in Australia.
Not Business As Usual: Using Collaborative Partnerships to Address Environmental Justice Issues – US Report
- Researchers present 12 major findings to guide community leaders as they consider forming an environmental justice collaborative partnership.
Pathways to Prevention - Developmental and early intervention approaches to crime in Australia - Report
- A developmental perspective calls for a realistic analysis of any individual's life in its place and time. Only within such a perspective can interventions be directed both to the problems in the person and to the features of that person's social circumstances that encourage crime.
Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising (US)
- A Report to the United States Congress, prepared for the National Institute of Justice, on the effectiveness of crime prevention programs.
Raising young children in Greater Dandenong: needs study
- This initial study for the Communities for Children Program of the Brotherhood of St Laurence documents the needs of families with young children in Greater Dandenong, Victoria.
Reconnect Program Evaluation Report ,October 2003
- The final report of the evaluation of the Reconnect Program, an Australian Government initiative designed to address the problem of youth homelessness.
Shocking the Suburbs - effects of oil prices and debt
- A study by Griffith University urban researchers, Dr Jago Dodson and Dr Neil Sipe, has found that Australia’s outer suburban households are more vulnerable to the rising costs of petrol, mortgages and inflation because of a combination of moderate incomes, housing debt and a reliance on travel by car.
State of Australian Cities Conference Papers
- The papers from the State of Australian Cities Conference, December 2003, are now available on the web.
Sustainability Education Conference Papers
- The Council on Environmental Education has made available online proceedings and papers from the Effective Sustainability Education Conference held February 2004.
Sydney Metropolitan Strategy
- The metropolitan strategy is the NSW Government's long term plan for Sydney’s growth and aims to maintain Sydney's role in the global economy and to plan for growth and change - a series of ongoing decisions, actions, plans, and projects.
Urban Frontiers Program
- The central focus of the Urban Frontiers Program is to improve understanding of, and provide innovative responses to, urban challenges and opportunities
Who cares about the Environment in 2003? A survey NSW people’s environmental knowledge, attitudes and behaviour.
- This is the fourth in the Department of Environment and Conservation’s social research series which has been tracking the NSW community’s knowledge, attitudes and behaviours on environmental issues – every three years - since 1994.

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