Building a house offers a great opportunity to make things better than what we had experienced living in Australia over the last 15 years. After all the cold and draughty winters in shockingly insulated homes and hot and sweaty summers in badly ventilated and insulated flats and houses ...

They came from the local east, a few from the more distant north and a few from the City of Sydney local government area... and even a few from further west. In its first major public event, the Randwick Sustainability Education Hub attracted an estimated 200 people, over ...

A new home about to be built at 3 Dolphin Street Randwick is leading the way in the sustainability stakes by going well beyond current regulation. The existing home was built in the 1930s and the owners Dorothee and Wolfgang decided to knock the home down and build ...

In Randwick, a humble community centre has been turned into an innovative sustainability hub - a learning and demonstration centre imagined around the sustainable use of our water, energy and food.

You know when you are approaching the Randwick Sustainability Hub - the tall wind turbine spinning in the breeze ...

Installing a solar power system on our townhouse turned out to be easier than expected - here's some handy info on how we did it and what we learnt along the way...by Geoff from Clovelly.

Early attempts at solar electricity

I looked into installing solar panels several ...

Let’s start with a note of reality: here, in the Eastern Suburbs, we live in what is potentially the most sustainable area in Sydney. Why? Because, (and let’s be kind here and include the City of Sydney area immediately east of the CBD) the city east ...