A project in the Great Regional City Challenge is aiming to build on what Tasmanians are accomplishing towards a cleaner, greener future.
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The Virtual Sustainability Summit is a project involving a number of stakeholders, including advocacy organisation Tasmania Way.
Tasmania Way director and project member Jessica Robbins said the summit would show what is and what can be accomplished locally to make Launceston sustainable.
"One of the lessons from the last few months is that the stronger the community is, the more access we have to locally produced food and energy ... those sorts of things are not only important for our sustainability but our connectiveness," she said.
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"The summit is a chance to highlight some of those good things that are already happening. There's also quite a few good things happening overseas that we could learn from.
"Let's have a discussion with people talking about these things locally and overseas and see how we can expand."
Ms Robbins said advice from sustainability projects in places like Hawaii and Copenhagen would be invaluable.
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The summits would take place once per month across six months; they would be held either at various venues or virtually at home, depending on social distancing restrictions.
"Particularly at this point in time we need hope and stories of hope and to see that really strong solutions are coming from within our community," Ms Robbins said.
You can vote for Great Regional City projects at launcestontogether.com.au until May 31.