Thursday, December 22, 2005

WEBSITE REVIEW: BuildSmart Sustainable Building Education Centre

I must say, Victoria has really got some good sustainable education facitites.
Holmesglen Institute of TAFE have a Sustianable Building Education Centre at which you can visit their show home, take courses at and get information generally.
Their website has more info and also has some nice easy to read .pdf fact sheets.

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

TIP: Cool Christmas Pressies


Looking for great christmas gifts? I just found some good ones at the Wilderness Society shop, Newcastle. A company called urban boomerang make awesome bags out of recycled truck inner tubes, recycled billboards, and photo albums, cd holders and notebooks out of old number plates. Yo. And Ho Ho Ho.
The Wilderness Society On-line Shop
Urban Boomerang stuff not available on this site but there are some other good for the earth gifts here.

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

TIP: Raintap



This is a great idea! I'll think I'll get one!
I quote directly from the EcoShop site where you can buy one for $49:
"RAINTAP:
One millimetre of rain on the average roof generates 250 litres of water. Normally this runs off your property and is wasted. But by fitting a raintap to your gutter downpipe, you can divert that water to your water storage tank, lawn, trees, plants or pool to make maximum use of even light rainfalls. Suits all downpipes by using 90mm adapters (readily available).
Installation: Can be fitted by a home handyperson in about 10mins. You will need a hacksaw to cut your existing downpipe. Simply pull downpipe towards you and fit bell end of raintap to the top cut in the downpipe. Position raintap above the bottom cut of the downpipe and pull down until the bevelled end enters the bottom pipe."