Sebastian is a local expert passionate about supporting Northern Rivers residents. He began his working life as an archaeologist, with an Honours degree in Anthropology, before deviating into Disability Services with over 10 years’ experience as a Quality Assurance Manager. His deep underlying passion for sustainability and renewable energy then compelled him to channel his…
Sebastian Crangle is a Byron local, on the Zero Emissions Byron Buildings team and Lead Energy Coach at Enova. He made significant energy savings on the granny flat he rents out – between 19 to 76% – as shown in the table below. We applaud his commitment and encourage all local landlords to follow suit. …
I recently joined the fabulous Library of STUFF Mullumbimby, motivated by being able to share useful equipment without us all needing to own it all separately. Of particular interest to me was the electric lawn mower because I wanted to “mow electric”😁, rather than use my polluting, petrol-powered lawnmower, and to charge the batteries from…
Ever since moving here to Australia, I have dreamed of having solar panels for our home. We finally made that a reality this past month! I had studied the “greenhouse effect” at university back in the early 1980’s so this dream has taken a long time to manifest! It will help to offset our carbon…
For the last three years, we have been transforming our food and toilet waste into cooking gas and liquid fertiliser concentrate (see Living tiny and green) The whole setup is carbon-neutral because biomaterial which was created through photosynthesis pulls carbon out of the atmosphere, and once burned as energy will go back as CO2. The…
Hi everyone, In order to minimise our greenhouse gas emissions, we have a 10kW above ground solar array and two LG 9kW batteries. We use the power generated by the solar system to power the house, our home-based business (distributing vegetarian health foods) and our EV, and there’s leftover energy which we on-sell to Enova…
ZEB director Craig Johnson has been hosting a program of informative webinars on ENERGY IN BUSINESS at the Habitat Board Room, Byron Industrial Estate. The intent is to show local businesses and industries the various useful ways they can save money through energy efficiency in daily operations, reducing energy costs using solar, batteries and stand-alone…
Zero Emissions chair Vicki Brooke presents an evening to discuss the transition to renewable energy.
ZEB presents A Night of Action on Renewables 31 Aug
A NIGHT OF ACTION ON RENEWABLES will focus on how the Byron Shire region can develop large scale renewable energy projects, and how we as a community can help drive the process.
Speakers will discuss how other communities around the world are developing their own large scale renewable projects; what’s happening here in Byron Shire; how can the community benefit; and what are there investment opportunities.
$10 entry, book via zerobyron.eventbrite.com.au