Environmentally Sustainable Design - The Greeny Flat Experience

Nov 18, 2016: Community Renewable Energy Investment Opportunity

Regular readers of this Newsletter will be aware that I have been helping to expand the Repower Shoalhaven – Community Renewable Energy Program into our local area. For those who haven’t heard of Repower, it is a community group that gathers local, ethical investors to fund solar power systems for small to medium-sized businesses and […]

Nov 4, 2016: Window Replacement and Tesla’s New Battery

This week we present Episode 5 in our series of short videos about the Energy Retrofit of the old fibro cottage next to the Greeny Flat. In this episode we are replacing the old single-glazed, double-hung, wood windows with new double-glazed, aluminium, casement windows. It would be nice to use thermally-broken aluminium frames but I […]

Oct 20, 2016: Episode 4 and Catchpower Answers

This week we present Episode 4 in our ongoing series of short videos on the Energy Retrofit of the old cottage next to the Greeny Flat. In last week’s video we were dealing with the ventilation of the under-floor area. This week we focus on relining the eaves and ventilating the attic. Ironically, in a […]

Oct 14, 2016: Episode 3 – Borers, Rot and Underfloor Ventilation

This week we present Episode 3 of our series of short videos documenting the process of Energy Retrofitting the old fibro home next to the Greeny Flat. If you haven’t seen them already, you can find Episode 1 here, and Episode 2 here.

In last week’s installment we found rot in some of the timbers […]

Oct 7, 2016: Episode 2 and SunCrowd Invitation

Insulating and sarking the exterior walls of the old house next to the Greeny Flat

In last week’s Newsletter we presented Episode 1 of a series of YouTube videos documenting the process of renovating the old house next to the Greeny Flat. This week, in Episode 2 we continue with insulating and sarking […]

Sept 30, 2016: Home Energy Retrofit Video 1

Yesterday we started the Energy Retrofit on the old fibro house next to the Greeny Flat. I’ve written about this project a few times in recent Newsletters but starting this week I’m going to try something new and different. As the retrofit progresses we’re going to be making a series of short little YouTube videos […]

Sept 23, 2016: Catch Power – So What’s The Catch?

In last week’s Newsletter I mentioned a sort of simplified Energy Management System called Catch Power. If you happen to live in the Southern Highlands of NSW you may have heard about a seminar on Monday offering information for people coming off the 60c Feed-in Tariff. This seminar will be promoting the Catch Power system. […]

Sept 16, 2016: What To Do at the End of the 60c Feed-in Tariff

By now you probably know that the high Feed-in Tariffs (FITs) that were put in place to stimulate the residential solar industry in NSW are coming to an end on December 31st. Quite a few of my friends and acquaintances have enjoyed the luxury of a taxpayer-funded solar system on their roof and are quite […]

Sept 9, 2016: Happy Sustainable House Day!

By now you should all know that Sunday, Sept 11 is Sustainable House Day (SHD). But just in case you’ve been naughty and haven’t been reading our Newsletters, SHD is a FREE, annual, national event in which sustainable homes across Australia open their doors to interested visitors. To find out if there are open houses […]

Sept 2, 2016: The Beginning of the End of Solar Subsidies in NSW

Cintia and I are currently on a fact-finding and sun-seeking mission between Sydney and Brisbane so this Newsletter will be brief as I am writing it from the road.

Last night’s campsite near Broom’s Head… another perfect deserted beach… ho hum.

FIT’s and REC’s

As most of you are probably aware, the days […]

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