Retrofit your home

Keep Australia Beautiful's (KAB) Blue Star Sustainability Metro Awards was good news this year for Randwick Sustainability Hub, the community education component of Randwick Community Centre.

The sustainability unit of Randwick City Council 2015 was awarded:

• Winner — Going Green Education Award for Randwick’s Sustainability Education Hub ...

Education for community resilience… 

CITIES are unfinished places. With old buildings being demolished and new ones being built they are in a constant state of rebuilding. It can be the same with the homes in those cities. As generations replace each other in those homes they modify them ...

 A NEW BATCH of qualified Living Smart educators has graduated from a two and a half day course at Randwick Sustainability Hub, the educational component of Randwick Community Centre.

Living Smart is a community course in resilient living devised by Murdoch University's Faculty of Behavioural Psychology, Fremantle ...

Check out some great tips to make every room in your house more sustainable.  

Source: http://www.energyaustralia.com.au/8-ways-to-create-a-sustainable-home

Regardless of whether you buy or rent, moving into a property can be a daunting experience - finding a place for all you treasured possessions, the unfamiliar sounds in the night and often some strange design features you might have not noticed beforehand.  

Having recently moved into a small ...

Barrett House is a sustainable demonstration project that follows the permaculture design principles both inside and out - often showing two or three different approaches to retrofitting for sustainability to suit every size and shape of house and of course every budget - all to help you make your place ...

This year’s Earth Hour was more than just about turning the lights off and promoting climate change solutions - it was also about showing our commitment to protecting one of the world’s most iconic places, the Great Barrier Reef.

And judging by the estimated crowd of a ...

THINK.EAT.SAVE was the name of the UNSW World Environment Day seminar that attempted to draw attention to food waste. This it achieved to some extent but having representatives of the three main political parties on the panel turned it into something of a recitation of known ...

Barrett House wins a Highly Commended in the Randwick Council's Urban Design Award 2013.

Here is what Brian Zulaikha, the presentation judge, had to say about the house...

Barrett House was bequeathed to council by the estate of early Twentieth Century Australian filmmaker, Walter Franklyn Barrett (1873-1964 ...

Have you visited Barrett House and have been impressed with the sustainable retrofits, then here's your chance to vote in the Urban Design Award People's Choice category for sustainability. Voting closes on Friday 3 May 2013 in the People's Choice category.

Visit Urban Design Award ...