Greensynergy Blogs

I have been saying for a long time now that the economic advantage to NSW from the Solar Bonus Scheme has never been put into perspective, especially in response to some of the outrageous negative claims made about the Solar Bonus Scheme, particularly from Barry O’Farrell and Tony Abbott. It appears that rather than being […]

My published comments re Bernard Salt’s article in today’s Australian: Bernard, your bagging of the term sustainability is shallow and unnecessary. Sustainability is either a warm fuzzy term, or a straw man for bagging, for those who don’t understand what it means. I’d expect someone in your position would be able to read a planning

This has been doing the rounds of the internet. I think it has an American source. However, its obviously been changed to suit Australia. I’ve edited it a bit more. It has some interesting ideas worth pursuing to further local sustainability. Read on: As the Christmas holidays approach, the giant factories are kicking into high

From the Australian 14th September, 2010 Worried about big slugs? Try a carbon tax By Michael Stutchbury TONY Abbott rejects Julia Gillard’s plans to put a price on carbon emissions as a great big new tax on everything. But his populism risks saddling Australia with a crazy quilt of hidden carbon prices that will cost

Attached is a slide show from Fiona Waterhouse’s presentation to the inaugural gathering of the Coffs Harbour Sustainable Building and Technology Group back on March 11th. (That’s me in green shirt in centre rows listening intently). Good presentation on networking for innovation and issues in getting venture capital support for innovations. Good discussions with other

The Bellingen New Energy Festival will be on this year on Saturday 5th June, with the preceding North Coast Energy Forum on the Friday 4th June. This is one of the great sustainability fairs, and the setting in a country showground in Bellinger Valley is beautiful. Greensynergy Consulting will have a stall at the Festival,

In all of this debacle that the installation of foil insulation to flat ceilings is inherently dodgy. Both as a result of the electrical dangers and also due to reduced insulation values. The insulation values of the top surface of the foil must be discounted due to dust build-up: in the old days we used

My comments on David Burchell’s article in today’s Australian regarding Peter Garrett’s and the Labor Governement’s failure to properly design their sustainability schemes:nAs a consultant working to improve the sustainability of our built environment, the thing that most appalls me is that this insulation scheme and the others (HSAS, Green Loans etc) are fundamentally unsustainable!

One thing that is never touched on with wood production cycle is the loss of topsoil with every harvest cycle. I know it is considerable – having seen many examples of such loss. It would be interesting to know how many tonnes of topsoil are lost per tonne of finished wood product.nAlso, if we consider

The following extract from Bernard Keane of Crikey.com is the best summary of the dilemma the Liberal Party is now in. If it wasn’t so pathetic and with such dire consequences for all of us, one would almost die laughing at the prospects of seeing how they twist and turn in the wind to try