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The Knox civic centre has been retrofitted with a solar array generating 5.25kW. With abundant roof space, there are plans to double the size of the array next year. Owners Knox City Council Location 511 Burwood Highway, Wantirna South, Melbourne Country Australia Type Sustainable renovation (solar array) Building size Large Phone 03 9298 8000 Email knoxcc@knox.vic.gov.au Summary… Continue reading Knox civic centre
Speaker’s notes from Rachel Coghlan at the 2010 Walk Against Warming event in Deakin. 1992, the year of the first United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, and the year in which the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was drafted, was the very same year that all Australian state and territory… Continue reading 2010 Walk Against Warming Rachel Coghlan
Linux is a Unix-based open source operating system that is free to install and use and has many features. Linux comes in a large variety of “distros” (distributions) such as: Linux tips sudo smbpasswd -a username It should be noted that the user added as username has to exist as a Linux user as well. More details: SettingUpSamba –… Continue reading Linux
New York City, credit B.KERR New York City has set an ambitious plan to go green. It’s called PLANYC 2020. In December 2006, Mayor Michael R. Bloombert challenged New Yorkers to generate ideas of achieving 10 key goals for the city’s sustainable future. New Yorkers in all five boroughs responded, with the result being the release of PLANYC… Continue reading New York
The Green roof at 131 Queen Street (Melbourne, Australia), the first roof garden retrofitted to an existing commercial building in Melbourne, was unveiled on 15 July 2010. The new green roof has been fitted on to a 10-storey office block at 131 Queen Street. The roof was previously a blank expanse of concrete, it is now an… Continue reading Green roof 131 Queen Street
A water wise garden can save a lot of water. Tips for creating a water wise garden: External links
Linux Mint’s purpose is to produce an elegant, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution. Excerpt From DistroWatch.com:Linux Mint is one of the surprise packages of the past year. Originally launched as a variant of Ubuntu with integrated media codecs, it has now developed into one of the most user-friendly distributions on the market –… Continue reading Linux Mint
Connecting a ”’water tanks”’ to the down spouts of your home’s guttering system is one of the easiest ways to contribute to sustainable living. Regulations as at May 2007 Rules and rebate schemes are different in each state. With the current low rebate schemes and the low cost of water the reasons for installing a… Continue reading Water tanks
Water tank pumps are quite efficient and don’t use much power to operate. Example 1 – water pump for all household water requirements For example, sample measurements from a pump operating for the Surrey Hills house supplying all water needs in August 2008 were: Hours 297 Days 12.375 kWh 2.8646 kWh/h 0.009645118 kWh/day 0.231482828 Example 2 –… Continue reading Water tank pump
Did you know that worldwide 1.4 billion cups of coffee are consumed every day? I don’t know how many cups of tea are drunk, but it must be an equivalent number. I have often thought about how sustainable a cup a coffee actually is while sipping my morning cafe latte. The beans may be harvested… Continue reading Green coffee
