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What a way to highlight National Recycling Week—swapping instead of discarding into the waste bin.

As zero hour approached around 80 eager swappers crowded the tables laden with stuff people didn't want and with other stuff people did want. "Put everything on the table now", instructed ...

A New Song For Xcessmas (or XSmas ) 

On the first day of Christmas,

my planet said to me,
a cloth bag is so waste free!

On the second day of Christmas,

my planet said to me,
buy green power,
and a cloth bag is so waste free!

On ...

When you recycle a plastic bottle, you're doing something good. When you recycle 111 of them, you're doing something great. Help your bottle become something extraordinary again…

In its first year, the 111 Navy Chair® has

diverted 3.5 million bottles out of landfills.

Up-cycling consumer ...

It sounds like a film title, and if it was, the voiceover would be something like this .. "Humanity has exhausted the budget of what nature can provide this year - September 27th, 2011 is Earth Overshoot Day."

New research from the Global Footprint Network, an international research organisation with ...

Should product companies have to pay for clean-up or be fined if their product or its packaging is found as litter?  Should councils support monthly Clean Out days or Garage Sale Trails?

These were some of the questions raised at the Waste Not film screening and community discussion ...

Follow our five handy tips to make your garage sale a roaring success...

With the Garage Sale Trail looming and hundreds of households across the Eastern Suburbs declaring their garages a bargain hunter’s paradise, you want to make sure you’re on the road to success.

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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 ...

Christmas is the time of year when we busy ourselves consuming – I’m not talking about the office party but rather handing the plastic over during a mad dash to the shopping centre to get everyone a gift to open on the big day.

Stop for a moment ...

We've just installed an Aerobin on a footpath garden outside Barrett House (Council's sustainability demonstration and community house) on the corner of Barrett Place and Frenchman's Road. It's there for everyone to love and use!.

Community groups and council staff use Barrett House regularly ...