energy saving

With the recent increase in electricity costs, I have been trying to find ways to keep the bills down. I live with my husband and two kids in a rented two-bedroom unit with no gas connection.

We have an electric kitchen stove and an electric water heater, which ...

So, you already do everything you can to reduce your greenhouse gas emissions, right?

Perhaps most of your friends do too, but have you stopped to think that most of those actions are largely invisible to the wider public? How many people would know if you take short ...

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 ...

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 ...

Phillip Bay Sustainability Street are hosting a free Compost workshop on the 350.org Global Day of Action – Sunday 10 October, 2010.

Founded by American environmentalist Bill McKibben, 350.org is a world-wide campaign on Climate Change. There are thousands of events taking place around the world from ...

So, just where do we find the hub of Sydney's sustainability movement? It's not over on the northside, not in the Inner West nor down in the distant southern suburbs — it's here in the city's Eastern Suburbs where the Pacific's swells wash onto ...