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AUSGRID to test LED Energy saving technology on NSW streets 15/12/2011:An average household LED can last more than 20 years and cut energy use by up to 75%. But we don’t yet know how they can perform in streetlights under Australian conditions...more
Submission to the NSW Planning System Review Issues Paper 1 March 2012 Marghanita da Cruz
2012 NSW Planning System Review - Research and Background..more
LED Lighting and Urban Wind Turbines, Glebe Point, Sydney (3 Feb 2012)
Carbon Emissions from Urban Sprawl:Soils are a source of greenhouse gases when surface vegetation is destroyed and soil organic matter decomposes into carbon dioxide. When new houses are constructed, surface vegetation is destroyed and soil organic matter decays into the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide....more
Call for Entries - Eco-Annandale 2012: Ecologically Sustainable Annandale is an annual exhibition supported by Ramin Communications Eco-Annandale 2012 - October 2012, Leichhardt Library...more
Liquidleds LED Lighting in traditional Incandescent Lamp Form..more
Osram enters Market, 50W Incandescent equivalent LED Lamps available in Sydney..more
Insulating an Old School Building ( 22 Dec 2011): Replacing the slate roofing and installing insulation at St Brendan's School, Annandale..more
NSW Government releases Planning System Issues paper and seeks input before February 17, 2012 ...more
20 December 2011...another LED Direct replacement Lamp fails...Perhaps the direct replacement lamp approach is flawed - the heat dissipation of the step down from 240 to 15volts may continue to be problematic or too costly...more
LED vs T8 vs T5 Fluorescent Tubes for Lighting... more
Permaculture groups Thriving in Sydney...more
ABC Q&A Transcript Monday 15 August, 2011 Disability, Fracking and Riots:...MALCOLM TURNBULL: Tony, this is an issue that is more serious than that flip remark would suggest. We are talking about our most precious resource is our water. We are the driest continent on earth. Now, I can tell you this, if you damage your groundwater sources, if you contaminate aquifers, whether it's by chemicals or whether it's by allowing contaminated water from a coal seam to get into a fresh water aquifer, you cannot fix it. You can't rehabilitate it. You can dig a hole in the ground and fill it in and put the topsoil back and over time perhaps you will get... more (Thu, 18 Aug 2011)
Call for comment by 26 August 2011 : AEMC 2011, Power of choice - giving consumers options in the way they use electricity, Issues paper, 15 July 2011, Sydney ( 3 Aug 2011)
LED Lamp fails in just 8 months (2 Aug 2011)
Coal Seam Gas Town Hall Meeting 1 August 2011
In November 2010 the residents of St Peters, an inner city suburb of Sydney, were alerted to the fact that the NSW government had granted an exploration licence to drill for Coal Seam Gas (CSG) close to homes and schools in St Peters....Coal Seam Gas Moratorium Bill..
New Lighting Labelling and Energy Management Standards....LED Lighting Standards (15 July 2011)
LED Lighting and Solar Power
LED Lights have lower energy requirements and a longer life than Fluorescent and other lighting technologies, providing benefits in operation and maintenance. How and when we make the transistion to LED Lighting and when this can be solar powered now depends on the cost of the components and maintenance vs the cost of electricity...20 Jun 2011
LED replacements for Halogen Lamps
Energy Efficient instant bright long life LED direct replacements for Halogen Screw base and 2 pin lamps...20 Jun 2011
LED Lighting Trial Annandale: At the Leichhardt Council Climate Change Taskforce meeting on June 1, it was proposed to Pilot LED Lighting along the new Johnston Creek Cycle Path and Footpath, Smith Hogan and Spindlers Park, Annandale. (9 Jun 2011)..more
Footprints Eco-Festival: Call for Applications from Environmentally Friendly Stall Holders closes June 17. Festival 11-3pm Sunday 28 August 2011, Whites Creek Valley (31 May 2011)...more
World Environment Day 2010 at Whites Creek Wetlands (Video) Locals excited about discovery of Turtles (11 May 2011)...more
Waratah Park Sydney(Video): Betongs, Numbats, Kangaroos and Koalas at Waratah Park Sydney (11 May 2011)more
Dedication of State Significant Heritage Item and Plaque Unveiling – Former Mort’s Dock, Mort Bay Park Mort's Dock was the largest shipyard and engineering workshop in Australia in the latter half of the 19th century. The site developed into the colony's largest private enterprise and in many ways helped establish the colony and Sydney as Australia's premier maritime port. The archaeological remains are possibly the only remains of a dry dock of this size preserved in situ. (13 May 2011)...more
E-Waste Drop Off Day, Marrickville Council, St Peters (Sydney) NSW (16 Apr 2011)..more
The Future is Clear - Carbon Forum 6.30pm-8.30pm, Tuesday 3 May 2011 Leichhardt Town Hall, Marion Street Leichhardt Cost: Free RSVP essential: thefutureisclear@lmc.nsw.gov.au Robyn Williams, presenter of ABC radio's Science Show will be the keynote speaker and will talk about what options are availabe in Australia for cutting carbon emissions. Dr Iian MacGill, Director of the Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets at UNSW will be presenting a laypersons guide to carbon tax and carbon trading schemes. (6 Apr 2011) more
Impact of the Carbon Tax on Australian Homes Pricing Carbon (CO2-e Carbon Dioxide Equivalent Emissions) will increase the cost of petrol, gas, diesal and coal and the cost of any electricity generated by these sources. Increasing the cost will reduce consumption which will result in a reduction in the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which are changing our climate for the worse.(6 Apr 2011)...more
Eco-Annandale 2011 Call for Exhibits The theme for the 2011 Ecologically Sustainable Annandale Exhibition is Water in Annandale. The Exhibition will run from 1-29 October 2011 at Leichhardt Library, Italian Forum, Norton Street, Leichhardt. Works need not be for sale, but must be on the theme. (18 Mar 2011)...more
Bays Precinct and Sydney Harbour National Park (28 Feb 2011)..more
White Bay Power Station: Open Day 11am-3pm Saturday 26 February 2011..(23 Feb 2011)more
Bridget's Sustainable Terrace: Requirements Bridget lives in an Inner City Surburb of Sydney. Her new penthouse aparment has a generous concrete walled terrace. She would like to create a sustainable comfortable garden incorporating:..(24 Jan 2011).more
COOL TREES Ted Floyd Jan 2011 Transpiration - When water vapour is transpired from leaves into the atmosphere, the plant and surrounding air is cooled down...more
Lecture: Planning for sustainable development of world cities: Assistant Professor Naesun Park, University of Tokyo, will speak on "The Vulnerability in Cities: the concept, mechanism and examples", at Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney, 10 January 2011, 6.30 pm. The Professor previously talked on "Urban Sustainability and Vulnerability Indicators: How Do We Evaluate Our Sustainability and Vulnerability?" at the International Workshop on Sustainable City-Region, February 2010 in Taiwan...(6 Jan 2011)more

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