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Water saving tips, water saving products and water saving ideas.
Australian Green Web Hosting
It’s good to see an Australian wesbsite hosting services catching on to green website hosting. Digital pacific is offering green website hosting in Australia (aff). Everything that Digital Pacific uses in the operations of our business, including servers, routers and air conditioners are eco powered so not only are you hosting your website on state [...]
Read more →Notebook Magazine – Stopping Food Waste in Australia
Every year, each Australian throws away 145 kg of food. As a nation, that is over $5 billion worth of food items. For every 5 bags of groceries a person buys a week, 1 of those goes straight in the rubbish bin. That’s almost 20% of the food Australians purchase. In Victoria and South Australia, [...]
Read more →Desalination vs water tanks in Victoria
The Age reports of an ongoing tug of war within the Victorian State Governments on the viability of desalination plants verses rainwater tanks. The Age mentions they have obtained a report by by University of Melbourne systems scientist and microbiologist Peter Coombs which appear to challenge the Government’s big-project desalination direction. In one report Peter [...]
Read more →Water Tanks – Are they cost effective?
A study initiated by the National Water Commission analysed the cost-effectiveness of installing a rain water tank from the perspective of the home owner in different regions of Australia. The study investigates how cost effective rain water tanks are as a substitute for mains water supply. The report highlights that the yield and the cost [...]
Read more →GetGreen Make-over
After 18 months of good service, it was time to put the old GetGreen blog template up on blocks and implement this great new Venice WordPress template (thanks to Billion Studio). Although GetGreen is a labour of love, I’ve added a little more room for advertising as it’s nice when GetGreen generates a little bit [...]
Read more →Sustainablility Living Calendar
If you’re interested in heading along to sustainability focused events in your region then head over to the Sustainable Living Calendar website. The Sustainable Living Calendar highlights events and activities across Australia which inspire, promote and celebrate sustainable living. Click on a link below to see view the events in your state: Victroria New South [...]
Read more →Do you require a building permit for your water tank?
Generally you don’t need a building permit for a water tank under 5000 Litres, however, you should call your local council and confirm this. For example, the Mornington Peninsula Shire in Victoria states that you require a building permit for anything over 4500 Litres. You could also ask your local water tank supplier for details [...]
Read more →Waterfuse inteligent water pressure regulation
Last week on Today Tonight (an Australian current affair program) there was a segment on Waterfuse, a water saving device which helps to intelligently regulate water pressure. Waterfuse is an electronic device that regulates the water flow and it’s has a software program specially designed to supply that’s required but not waste any. We hope [...]
Read more →Quick water saving tip for the home
Here’s a “smack your head it’s so simple” idea for reducing your water use at home. It’s as simple as this: Turn down your water meter tap. Yep, that’s it. Reducing your mains water pressure by turning it down at the meter will reduce the flow of water to all your taps and water outlets [...]
Read more →Plants Can Help You Conserve Water
It’s true. Having plants – which you would think would use up a lot of water – can actually help you to conserve more water. If you have a huge expanse of yard it has to be watered a lot. All of that grass needs to stay green, and if it doesn’t get enough water, [...]
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