GREAT to read the Living Lightly article (The Border Mail, August 27) where Kelly Cartwright described how Wodonga Diamonds Soccer Club has installed water tanks and sensor lighting along with external solar-powered spotlights.
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A Sustainability Victoria grant enabled the club to do this.
Birallee Neighbourhood House also received funding to run its Our Garden to Yours workshops with practical tips on gardening and growing food.
Unfortunately for other groups and organisations that would like to implement such programs, the Victorian government has slashed the funding and so no more grants will be made available.
In a recent interview on ABC Stateline, Minister for Environment and Climate Change Ryan Smith expressed an interest in implementing practical programs with tangible outcomes.
Both of these programs sound pretty practical to me!
So how can the Baillieu government possibly justify these funding cuts?
It’s a great disappointment to many other community groups with similar plans.
Bad decision, Mr Smith.
— JENNY DAVIES,
Baranduda
