sustainability

HOME TECHNICAL MANUAL - Australia's guide to environmentally sustainable homes

Sustainability Victoria - Sustainability Victoria's purpose is to show the way to using our resources more efficiently and reducing our everyday environmental impacts.

ATA (Alternative Technology Association) is Australia’s leading not-for-profit organisation, promoting sustainable technology and practice in order to protect our environment.

Alternative Fuels and Energy - develops and promotes renewable energy solutions.

Natural Sequence Farming (NSF) is a rural landscape management technique aimed at restoring natural water cycles that allow the land to flourish despite drought conditions.

Soil Foodweb Institute Australia

Eco-organics is an environmental company based in Melbourne Victoria.

Transition Network - the worldwide movement of ordinary people finding ways of being sustainable and resilient for the health and wellbeing of our children, ourselves and our planet.  It can be applied to whatever kind of community you live in: suburb, city, town, village or even an island.

straw bale

AUSBALE.org - The Australasian Straw Bale Building Association

CASBA - The Calfiornia Straw Building Association

The Canelo Project - Bill and Athena Steen in Canelo Arizona

Surfin' StrawBale - Links to several Straw Bale sites

green building

Urban Salvage: recycled and reclaimed timber in Victoria

The Green Directory - Promoting Sustainable Living

Mother Nature Network - formerly Planet Green Discovery.com

eco-friendly

Treehugger - Hip news on everything green and more...

Todae - Environmentally friendly home solutions

Going Solar provides innovative solutions for integrating PV solar power modules into buildings.

One of the first eco-friendly products we chose was Biolytix. Why? Two reasons: The soil test required an AWTS (aerated wastewater treatment system) because of the soil drainage and the slope of the property, it's an alternative solution versus septic or an AWTS based on chlorination. And the end result is water for irrigating plants or trees.

building design