Back in 2000 Sydney-based Ross Halliwell hit upon a simple solution to reduce domestic household energy consumption when he found that there was no device available for the average Joe to measure their electricity consumption in the home. Read the full story

Sydney has become the first city in Australia to get a public on-street electric car charging station. This is just brilliant news and hopefully it will not be the last one in our country. Read the full story

Loud, sharp or constant noise in the workplace, home or leisure areas can cause hearing impairment, hypertension, ischemic heart disease, annoyance and aggression, sleep disturbance, and a lowering of learning capability which can be measured in school results. Read the full story

Australia has been praised for its commitment to green education in Copenhagen today (last year’s Hopenhagen Conference) (Friday 11 Dec, 2009). Read the full story

Bendigo Bank in Australia has always been innovative.  They were the first to go BACK into rural communities and open small shopfront banks accessible to remote areas so kudos to them for saving people barrels of oil wasted on travel. Read the full story

Upcycling left over wetsuit material to make a laptop sleeve? Tell me more! Read the full story

This is the working title for a proposal to retrofit the Australian Toyota Prius fleet as Plug-In Hybrid Electric (Dual Power) Vehicles, commonly referred to as PHEVs. (Writer/researcher Randall Berger) Read the full story

If you are the kind of person who LOVES their newspaper – then this might just be a product for you! LG has unveiled it’s newspaper-size flexible e-paper. Read the full story

Perhaps the world needs to get over its love of fondling an actual paper creation.  Books are expensive, cost trees and carbon in their transport and get dusty and smelly in your bookshelves. Read the full story

Electronic waste, e-waste, e-scrap, or Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Read the full story

Leaving in a few days for a trip of a lifetime to Nepal and India, I have had an awakening.  I realised I would finally be free of the dreaded (but much loved and needed) Lonely Planet Guide book! And really, can you blame me – the guidebook for India is about the same weight as my backpack!! Read the full story

Congratulations to Gavin of The Greening of Gavin who has reached a milestone of 500 posts!

He really is a great inspiration to green living with his wonderful chickens ( I love the videos!) his cheese making, the vegetable garden ideas down to his family who are all pitching in to help. Read the full story