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How to furnish your home cheaply without help from Ikeavideos
When Katrina Ellis set out to furnish her and her partner Tyson's green remodel in Melbourne, Australia, in keeping with the sustainable theme she bought nearly all the home's furniture secondhand, but she didn't see it as a sacrifice: "9 times out of 10 it's better ...
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Outback Café: cooking with Kutjera and Lemon Myrtlevideos
Muntrie berries and Tanami apples, Kutjera and Wattleseed: "this is the true cuisine of this country. It's not a meat pie or a Fosters and it's not a prawn on a barbie." Australian Aboriginal chef Mark Olive has been using this food in his cooking for over twenty ...
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
To market, to market in Melbourne, Australiavideos
One of the easiest ways to shop locally and seasonally- and avoid all that well-traveled food- are farmers markets. The Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne Australia is the largest open air market in the Southern Hemisphere and most of its produce is local to Victoria. In this video, Melbourne resident ...
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Shampoo in a yogurt container & buying in bulk in Melbournevideos
A trip to the supermarket normally implies a new load of plastic containers and packaging, but there is an alternative: buying in bulk and refilling recycled containers. In this video, Kasey Sparks from Melbourne's (Australia) Friends of the Earth food co-op showed us their bulk goods, recycled containers and ...
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
A wine merchant who will refill your bottle over and overvideos
If you follow the 3 R's, you know that it's better to reuse than simply recycle. This is no longer advice for just cloth bags and diapers, but even for luxury goods. Melbourne (Australia) based Swords Wines offers customers their vintages in returnable, re-useable 1 liter swing top ...
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Slow pedestrianization: how to take cars out of citiesnews
It sounds a bit eco-utopian, but cars are being banned not just from eco-towns like Abu Dhabi's Masdar or Germany's Vauban, but from congested downtowns like New York and possibly San Francisco and Melbourne (Australia).In Cameron Crowe's 1992 movie "Singles", one character- a transportation engineer- argues ...
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11 months, 1 week ago by: kirstendirksen staff 2 comments
Passive designblogs
A passively designed home does not require any mechanical heating and cooling and takes advantage of natural energy flows to maintain thermal comfort. Unfortunately, it is very difficult and expensive in some climates to achieve a completely passive home and in extreme climates there is usually some need for heating ...
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1 year ago by: tdirksen user comments
Why is orientation so important?blogs
When Katrina and I were looking for our new home, it was imperative that our backyard was facing North (you would want it facing South if you live in the northern hemisphere). Why?
First, a little about the sun:
No matter where you are the sun rises to your east ...
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1 year ago by: tdirksen user 1 comments
Not quite there but trying...blogs
I don't know how it is in the rest of the world but in Australia the green movement is finally picking up (I know that it has been going for awhile in the EU) - be it a six year drought, the fact that Australian's pollute more per capita ...
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1 year ago by: tdirksen user comments
And Australia is still trying... CFLsblogs
I am very pleased about how well my new Compact Florescent Lights (CFLs) look and work (after being installed).
However, they were much too hard to find. I looked high and low for an efficient but powerful CFL and ended up having to buy them nearly an hour out of ...
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1 year ago by: tdirksen user comments