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These products are purchased as Resources by Businesses who use them to create Goods and Services, which are then sold to Customers. Businesses generate waste in their processes and customers too put their waste into the environment. At this point the model changes. It now shows the customer completing the cycle back to the supplier. By send...

Practical concepts and tips for designing your eco home and environment Site selection Eco building design Mud brick construction Solar power generation Water collection Sewer and waste disposal Permaculture, Bio-dynamic and Organic land use Fruit, nut and native selection/ production Information booklet provides T...

Friday, 23rd November 2007 Meridian Energy announced publicly yesterday that they are going to offer 1-1 net billing (equivalent to net-metering). This means you will get the retail rate for both imported and exported energy . This is something the grid-tie PV industry has requested for years now and it is good to see one of the energy majors st...

A number of web based sustainability guides, calculators and work books available to guide your business to becoming more sustainable.

The Clovelly House is a three bedroom, south facing semi-detached residence, with in-ground pool and off-street car parking, in Clovelly, an inner city suburb of Sydney, Australia. The house, designed by Kennedy Associates Architects and completed in 2004, was designed to meet the very specific spatial and accessibility needs of the client with ...

Together we can really help the environment — the more of us that step up, the bigger the difference we’ll all make. One positive change we can make is to reduce the amount of paper we consume. That’s why we’ve created an electronic version of this booklet that you can read onscreen. It also makes it easy for you to forward on to friends, fa...

Video discussing Transition Towns in New Zealand

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something green? Brides are becoming more and more eco-conscious and invitations are the perfect place to start.

My biggest excuse for not cleaning is that I don’t have time. But it’s not exactly true. I certainly do have time to, say, wipe the counter. It’s dealing with the stuff on the counter before I can clean that takes all the time.

With expanded and tougher criteria on toxic chemicals, electronic waste and new criteria on climate change only Sony and Sony Ericsson score more than 5/10 in our latest Guide to Greener Electronics. Nintendo and Microsoft remain rooted to the bottom of the Guide.

A panel of experts discuss how to make the war in Iraq more eco friendly ;-)

Scientist-turned-filmmaker Dr. Randy Olson, is a fan of Al Gore's global warming movie, but asks, "Where are the scientists?" He sets out to make his own documentary about global warming featuring scientists, but the only backers he can find are a fabulously flaky couple who top their list of people they want him to interview with Tom Cru...

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Five laptops and five desktops were rated as the greenest of the year this week by MetaEfficient, a website dedicated to covering energy efficiency in all its forms.

Transition Initiatives are bringing people together out of a desire to explore how we – and our communities – can respond to the twin challenges of climate change and peak oil. We know we don’t have all the answers but we believe we have the innovation to create those solutions. Each transition group networks with their local community on a coordin...

Low Impact Urban Design and Development (LIUDD) is a sustainable living concept. Urban sustainability and health are achieved through effective management of stormwater, waste, energy, transport and ecosystem services. The greening of cities by planting ecologically with local species is also a vital part of the overall well-being of ecosystems and...