EcoDirectory will be at EcoXpo this weekend at the Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park, Sydney. We will be handing out free My E organic energy drinks. Please come and visit us.
It's generally easy to be environmentally friendly around the house when you live on your own and you own your own home, but it can get a little more complicated when you're a renter, as many of us are. Worse still, when you share a house with people who aren’t environmentally friendly or sustainable at all. Their lazy actions make your bills increase and you’re left to foot the bill. If you’re like me, it probably drives you crazy when your housemate leaves the light on after they leave the house and won’t even use the recycling bin. Seriously, how easy is it to recycle these days? So how do you make a lazy flatmate change their habits and be a little more sustainable and eco-savy?
This list includes current federal and state rebates and grants. There may also be rebates and grants available from local councils. Retailers of solar panels/hot water and rainwater tanks should also know about rebates. We haven't listed remote region rebates - see the state sites below to check if any are available.
Researchers have dubbed this the "licencing effect". Because you've done something "ethical" you feel you've raked up some moral brownie points, so you feel more entitled to act selfishly afterwards.
Cutting edge designers are making furniture using more sustainable techniques and materials. That's fantastic, but much eco-friendly furniture is pretty expensive. However, there are still cheap and easy ways to green your furniture - albeit less sexy ones.
Two UK pioneers of the Transition Town concept will be visiting Australia to conduct two two-day workshops in January and February 2009 as part of a "world tour". The two venues are the Sunshine Coast in Queensland and Bowral in the NSW Southern Highlands. Full details can be found here.
South Australia has become the first Australian state to ban single-use plastic bags. The legislation will come into force between January and May 2009.
It's here again... the WWF's Living Planet Report [is one of the best surveys of the state of the world's environment, and the 2008 version is just out.
Hi, I'm Michael Grosvenor, author of Sustainable Living for Dummies. Over the coming months and years I'll be posting interesting stuff on this blog about sustainable cities, both in Australia and around the world. The majority of the world's population is now urban, and cities consume the majority of the world's resources. The green revolution will be an urban revolution.
