June e-news
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This year’s Sustainable House Day is March 19 but check out the website here as there are a raft of resources permanently available plus a program of workshops that runs for a month after the 19th. All featured homes will have a video showing the elements of interest and owners will either open their doors …
Zero Emissions Byron hosted a ‘Night of Action on Renewables’ on August 31st, with an audience of more than 80 people who were all keenly interested in how we can develop renewables in our community. Keynote speaker Taryn Lane, a manager of Hepburn Wind, Australia’s first community-owned cooperative windfarm in Victoria, provided details of how…
In early December I got the chance to “ruin”, as the tongue-in-cheek vernacular goes, the better part of a week in the Model Y. The plan was to try it out for camping “lite”, sleeping in the back except for one night stopover at a girlfriend’s in Inverell.
Circular Economy fever has reached the Shire! The Tip Shop in Myocum is a much loved destination for second hand brick a brack lovers in the region. Buying second hand is always better for your carbon footprint so if its been a while (or like, ever) since you headed to the tip for a look…
August newsletter – including latest news and events
Did you know that 12% of Australia’s total greenhouse gas emissions come from energy-use in residential homes? Contributing to this are over 8 million homes built before the introduction of building energy standards. Even homes built since the 1990s, often have inadequate thermal performance and inefficient appliances, making them hot in summer, cold in winter and expensive to…