Bathurst Community Climate Action Network

Bathurst Community Climate Action Network applauds the opening of Bathurst Regional Council’s sustainable lifestyle house this Sunday and the open day from 10am to 4pm at 17 McGirr Street, Llanarth.
 
 

I have just recently finished reading a book about "recycling" in a general sense. The book's title, "The Same Ax, Twice" suggests an interesting conundrum. If the owner of an ax ( or axe) replaces the handle twice and the ax head once in his lifetime, is it the same ax?

I am thinking of building a  new home with straw bales. Does anyone know of anyone else building or has built with this material in the Bathurst region or how I might go about finding out more about the whole process.

This image was uploaded with the post CSU Sustainability Conference - Wagga Wagga.

Last week I attended Tech Trade 09 at the Wagga Wagga campus of CSU and as the theme of this conference was sustainability, I thought it was worth reporting on here and passing on some of the lessons being learned by CSU which are worth noting in our community too.
Issues which were covered included building, energy efficiency, renewable energy sytems, community awareness  , carbon polution abatement, food production, biodiversity, transport systems and water conservation.

This blog is a version of the presentation I will give at the Sustainable Living Expo to be held on the 22nd February at the Bathurst JPanthers Leagues Club.

As well as a synopsis of the presentation the presentation itself can be viewed on line after the date of the presentation or downloaded.

This web version will give a lot of the links which many might find useful.

Where: Bathurst Leagues Club, Crystal room

As the Sustainable Housing Exp is happening this Sunday, I thought I might start a topic on building. I have been a builder myself over many years, building houses for my family, myself and with friends. I have mainly been in the fringe area of low impact materials such as mud, straw bale, recycled timber, roofing ireon, slate etc. One of my pet hobby horses is that I am very anti-concrete. Cement as invented by the Romans or perhaps earlier in Middle Eastern culture, is undoubtedly a superb material and it is no wonder builders leap upon its use.