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Our home and garden can be a bottomless pit of resource consuming ecological inefficiency - or a healthy Eden of self sufficiency. So how do we manage that part of our ecological footprint we most control, our home, and set it on a sustainable path?

Buy Renewable Electricity

Every time you use electricity in your home greenhouse gases are belched out on your behalf. So buy the clean stuff!

Cultivate Energy-Saving Habits

Energy saving habits are easy to learn. Daily behaviours can save resources and money and can reduce your contribution to global warming.

Cultivate Water-Saving Habits

Water-saving habits are those easy-to-learn daily behaviours that can save us thousands of litres (and dollars) over our lives.

Embrace Energy Efficiency

Energy conservation through the adoption of efficient technology and behaviours saves resources and money.

Generate your own Electricity

The sun hitting your roof can power your life. It's just a question of gadgets.

Harvest and Use your Rainwater

Install a rainwater tank to collect and store the rain hitting your roof and use it to water your garden, wash your clothes or fill your toilet.

Install Efficient Appliances and Fixtures

When investing in large household, appliances and fixtures, use the government's Energy and Water Ratings (Stars) to guide you to the most efficient, and save money over the long term as you continually conserve energy and water.

Install Solar Hot Water

Sunlight converts cold water into hot water. No gasses are emitted and no-one gets hurt. Life is rarely this simple!

Make your Renovations Green

Renovations are the ideal opportunity to make your house more efficient and sustainable. Try these tips and feel good about your home.

Use Water Efficiently

Water conservation on the driest continent on the planet is essential, logical and too long in coming. There are lots of easy things we can all do!



 

   
 
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