How many times have you been our at a pub or night club only to wake up the next morning (somewhere) stinking of cigarette smoke? Your hair and clothes smell like you’re a two pack a day smoker. The fist thing I do the morning after is throw all my clothes in the wash then [...]
Prime Minister John Howard today announced that the government would offer Australian Schools a $50,000 voucher to in assist in the instillation of solar hot water systems and water tanks. The Environment minister Malcolm Turnbull also told ABC radio there would be a $1000 assistance package for families earning less than $100,000 to replace existing [...]
Brisbane physicist Dr Ian Edmonds has had a novel idea for transporting water from rain soaked North Queensland down to the drier regions of South East Queensland and NSW. Dr Edmonds has suggested floating large volumes of fresh water down the Australian east coast in large plastic bladders. With the natural current that flows from [...]
An article in The Boarder Mail reports: LABOR leader Kevin Rudd wants to put a rainwater tank in every home and has pledged $250 million to get things started. Mr Rudd yesterday said a federal Labor government would tackle the water crisis by offering up to $500 each to 500,000 homes to help install tanks [...]
A recent article in The Age outlines how one family has discovered a novel way to save water and electricity in the home, bribe the kids! If the electricity and water usage in GREEN challenge entrant Jill Forwards household decreases, the kids get a pocket money bonus. What a great way to make children more [...]
South Australian State Government has issued new water restrictions on Adelaide household water use. Beginning July 1 there will be a ban on watering household lawns with. State Water Security Minister Karlene Maywald said the temporary “stringent restrictions” – applying during July and possibly longer – were a result of record low inflows into the [...]
The Brisbane Times reports that the residents in Brisbane will have to ensure their rainwater tank is plumbed into their laundry and toilet to be eligible to receive the $850 water tank rebate. “Lord Mayor Campbell Newman said the change was needed because the rebate program would not conserve the city’s water supplies unless people [...]
i just came across this new green lifestyle magazine, G Mag Australia.”G Magazine provides practical, evidence-based solutions to living a more environmentally friendly lifestyle,” says Wilson da Silva, Editor-in-Chief of G. “It will be a trusted and respected guide to the green consumer landscape.” “It’s hard to find accurate and reliable information on how to [...]
Tone Wheeler, the architect of the latest and environmentally greatest Big Brother house has claimed it to be the fist house in Queensland to use grey water legally. The Queensland government has granted BB approval to conduct testing of a grey water treatment plant on site at the House, which will see grey water run [...]
A study by Marsden Jacobs Associates for the Australian Conservation Foundation, has shown that rainwater tanks are one of the most cost-effective solution to the water crisis facing Melbourne, Sydney and South-East Queensland. The report found the widespread installation of rainwater tanks in Australian capital cities would mean big savings in water, energy and money. [...]
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