Sewing day at a friends place today : mending and re-purposing our clothes, bedding and cushions – good for our planet and fun for us ! We fixed up two cushions, including one made by my son when he was 5 ( a long time ago!) – mended three dresses and a shirt, made a…
Mowing the lawn with an electric mower – charged by the sun 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…
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…
We came to this house in June 2017. It is located in Piora, near Casino. We spent the first two weeks shivering with two electric oil heaters running flat out since there was no heating and no insulation. The first job I did was to open up the roof space and lay rock wool all…
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…