Now try this: Related tips (Tip 3)
Related Tips: Tip 7: Our high-speed lives Tip 10: Ordering in food Tip 56: The packaging we purchase Tip 65: Let’s nail this recycling
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Geoff Ebbs is the author of the best-selling Australian Internet Book and a long term environmental activist. He has written, edited and published a wide range of business and environmental books and participated in community radio and publishing. The radio show and online news site, https://EcoRadio.net has been operating (initially as https://TheGenerator.news) since 2005. A regular speaker and facilitator at Engineering conferences and workshops Geoff has built on his background in information technology, media and environmental engineering.to nurture the transition to a post-carbon economy. Geoff continues to drive deep adaptation and regenerative sustainability as the primary agenda for both commercial and community organisations and is currently researching business approaches to those issues at the Griffith Centre for Sustainable Enterprise. The organisation he founded in 2005, Ebono Institute, continues to support community and social enterprise media and his consultancy, Great Notion, provides facilitation and strategic planning services to social enterprise and environmental organisations.
Look it up: Bottled drinks resources (Tip 3)
Research topics: Bottled water waste PET recycling Plastic bottle environmental impact
Hard facts: Bottle statistics (Tip 3)
Australians drink 75L packaged drinks per year. Australia disposes of 373 million PET bottles annually. Only 36% are recycled. Globally, bottled drinks produce 100 million… Read More »Hard facts: Bottle statistics (Tip 3)
Reality check: Plastic bottles (Tip 3)
Only one third of bottles sold in Australia are recycled. The rest end up in landfill or oceans. Hollow bottles take up 30% of landfill… Read More »Reality check: Plastic bottles (Tip 3)
Here’s a plan: Make your own drinks (Tip 3)
Make simple syrup: fill saucepan with sugar, add water, simmer until clear, cool and bottle. Mix with juice for cordials. Freeze homemade drinks for cold… Read More »Here’s a plan: Make your own drinks (Tip 3)
Tip 3: Those packaged drinks
Packaged drinks are a perfect example of how cheap energy has encouraged us to consume resources for no good reason. We pay over 1,000 times… Read More »Tip 3: Those packaged drinks
Here’s a plan: Adjust temperature minimally (Tip 2)
Go for a 10-minute walk to get used to the ambient temperature. When you come back, adjust the temperature minimally, set it to the recommended… Read More »Here’s a plan: Adjust temperature minimally (Tip 2)
Tip 2: Turn down the air-con
Australia spans a range of climates, from the tropics to the Antarctic Ocean, but most capital cities have reasonably comfortable climates. Nevertheless, the energy we… Read More »Tip 2: Turn down the air-con
Now try this: Related tips (Tip 2)
Related Tips: Tip 9: Control that air flow Tip 14: Meet your heater Tip 17: Insulate your home