Greens candidate for Whitlam Tom Hunt met with Greeny Flat owners Andrew Lemann and Cintia Yamane to discuss sustainability needs in the Highlands.

Mr Hunt said more awareness and concern for the environment was needed in politics.

"There's so much to do, and so little happening at state and federal levels," he said.

"Reducing our footprint is my aim, as society as a whole doesn't seem to understand the impacts we're having.

"Our government seems to have its head buried firmly in the sand."

Mr Lemann said the Greens needed to distinguish between the phrases "renewable energy" and "renewable electricity" in their policy.

"People use the terms 'renewable energy' and 'renewable electricity' as if they're the same thing, and they're not," he said.

"Greens policy says it wants to have 90 per cent renewable electricity in Australia by 2030.

"But we basically have to electrify everything to become 100 per cent renewable, as we can make renewable energy but not renewable electricity.

"There's very little mention about energy conservation amongst all this talk."

Mr Hunt said part of the Green's Renew Australia Policy was to improve energy efficiency by 50 per cent.

"It's going to be tough, but that's the intent," Mr Hunt said.

"We want to move to decentralise electricity, and move to solar panels and solar thermal methods."

Mr Lemann said the key to enable the transition to renewable energy was to "reduce before we produce".

"We need to reserve and conserve as much energy as possible, and then it's easy to transition, when you're not using as much energy," he said. The two men also discussed transport issues, including traffic caused by people driving to work.

Mr Lemann said towns should be built where walking and cycling was made easier.

"I think it's ridiculous how people drive to work, then sit in front of a computer all day, then drive to the gym to sit on a stationary bike," he said.

"You can sit on your computer at home, I think companies need to allow their employees to work from home if that's all they do.

"We need jobs where people live, so they don't have to drive, and access to high-speed internet makes it much more viable to work from home."

Mr Hunt said he would take Mr Lemann's recommendations on board.

The Green's policies can be viewed at http://greens.org.au/policy-platform