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People are incredibly sentimental about gift giving and card sending at Christmas. Even as they grow older, many people are miffed, disturbed or shocked by the idea of buying people gifts. Many are...
The Green Pages recently published a great list of ‘eco home’ tips, a lot of them were aimed at those building their on homes, so irrelevant to renters, but here are a few higlights...
I recently came across this fascinating article on Wired about where (America's, but probably similar for Australia) gadgets end up. We forget that all those iPod's, phones, computers and...
There's been a fair bit of support amongst the green community over the past few years for soy based ink, I've not actually had much experience of using it myself, but an interesting post...
No impact man has been mentioned here a few times, and it's refreshing to see that he's still gaining a lot of media attention, I came across a post of his recently which is a summary of some of his...
I think we'll all agree that gadgets are great, but we are all pretty obsessed with constantly upgrading them, causing massive environmental impact. Primarily due to modern manufacturing...
Energy to burn
JOANNE BROOKFIELD
May 16, 2010
The Age Newspaper
TODAY'S teenager is wired up. TVs, DVDs, Xboxes and PlayStations, Wiis and mobile phones, iPods and Kindles, laptops, printers,...
One of Green Renters mantras is 'recycle, re-use, reclaim' and there's plenty of sources for finding and passing on no-longer-required items from Op-shops to garage sales and services...
I must confess, I've been known to wrap christmas presents in newspaper, reused fabric or a plain old plastic bag. Despite being a crafty person, it's just not really my forte, especially...
Did you realise the Federal government actually has a rebate scheme in place to help renters insulate their (often poorly insulated) homes? Neither did we... In a strange quirk of coincidence we were...