[ December 5, 2009; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] **Nowra Anglican College, Princes Highway, Bomaderry** For full information check out their web site [Sustainable Housing Forums](http://www.sustainablehousingforums.com).

[ September 26, 2009; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] **Berry School of Arts** Corner of Princess and Alexandra St. Berry NSW More information will be provided closer to the date, and you can also check out their web site [Sustainable Housing Forums](http://www.sustainablehousingforums.com).

Things are gearing up for the launch of Kiama FutureCare on World Environment Day – Friday 5 June 2009. The Sebel Harbourside (the old infants’ school) has been generous enough to provide us with the venue free of charge, and we’ve lined up Kiama Mayor Sandra McCarthy to officiate the actual launch.

We’ve also lined up [...]

[ June 5, 2009; 7:15 pm to 9:00 pm. ] **Mayor to launch Kiama Future Care on World Environment Day** Kiama’s only non-political, grassroots, not-for-profit local climate care group – Kiama Future Care – is being launched on World Environment Day – Friday June 5th. Formed by a group of local teachers, community workers, students, artists, doctors, engineers and business people, the group’s aim is to reach [...]

After some discussion on power-hungry low-voltage halogen downlights in the comments section of my We Now Have Solar Power post, I thought it was high time I did something about them.

A while ago I measured that our 50W halogen lights are actually drawing 65W each – the extra 15W is lost in the transformer. So [...]

I finally got the chance to set up my chest freezer as a fridge a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve been testing it out so I could write up this post.

You may recall I mentioned that we had an old fridge/freezer running in our garage as a second fridge. With three young kids in [...]

We had some problems this year with getting zucchini fruit to set. They would grow OK for a while, then shrivel up, rot and drop off the vine.

The problem is that the fruit are not getting pollinated. This job is normally done by bees, but for some reason this year they’re not doing it. I [...]

[ May 30, 2009; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] **The Swap is on! Saturday 30th of May 2009.** Late Autumn/Early Winter greetings from the Garden. Winter is creeping in but we are pushing back! Still producing the veg and ready to swap. The 2nd Waste Not! [Fruit and Veg Swap](http://thegardennorthgong.blogspot.com/) will happen at the Garden @ North Wollongong PCYC on Saturday May 30th from 9-12 (the [...]

OK, our solar power system actually got installed a week ago, but I wanted some photos so I had to wait until the weekend.

Anyway, we now have solar power!

We got a 1 kW grid-connected solar power system from Earth Utility. Once again (we previously got solar hot water from them), their service was great and [...]

We had another meeting of the Kiama FutureCare group last night – a big thanks to Edwin from Little Blowhole Computers for once again offering up his home as a meeting place.

Kiama FutureCare is a grass-roots group of motivated community members interesting in promoting the concept of sustainability in the Kiama area. We are modelling [...]