Category: Super Challenge
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Podcast Interview With Gavin From “The Greening of Gavin”
I was interviewed by Gavin Webber from The Greening Of Gavin as part of a series of podcasts he’s done with sustainable bloggers from around Australia. Let me know what you think!
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Kiamasphere Web Site Launch
I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak at the launch of Kiama Council’s new Kiamasphere web site on Thursday. If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll probably know that our sustainability journey really got going when my family joined the Sustainable Illawarra Super Challenge. It gave us the impetus to…
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My Podcast Interview Is Live!
A little while ago [I mentioned that I was interviewed](http://green-change.com/2009/04/23/my-first-podcast-interview/) for a podcast by Tim Denshire-Key. Tim is a student from RMIT who has been travelling around Australia, checking out sustainability initiatives and interviewing people. He’s finally back home and working his way through the 50+ interviews he recorded. What a huge job! Well, my…
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Welcome Super Challengers!
I spoke at the launch of the [Sustainable Illawarra Super Challenge](http://www.sustainableillawarra.com.au/The-SuperChallenge.html) Round 2 today at the Dapto Ribbonwood Center. Sorry guys if I rambled too much :-). It was a great session, with beautiful food and lots of local families to meet. I was pleased to see a nice strong Kiama contingent! It was great…
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Sustainable Illawarra Super Challenge 2009 Call For Participants
The Sustainable Illawarra Super Challenge, the program that started us working on being more sustainable (and which led to the creation of this blog!), is [calling for 50 new participants for Round 2](http://www.sustainableillawarra.com.au/The-SuperChallenge.html) (scroll down a little on that page and you’ll see a photo of us!). Although the name sounds like an eco version…
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My First Podcast Interview
Yesterday I met up with Tim Denshire-Key at Wollongong University, and he interviewed me about our participation in the Sustainable Illawarra Super Challenge and our efforts to become more sustainable in an ordinary suburban house. He’ll use the audio in an upcoming podcast. Tim is studying Industrial Design at RMIT in Melbourne, and is currently…
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Planting Out Fruit Trees
On Sunday I drove up to the Wollongong Wholesale Nursery at Albion Park Rail to buy some fruit trees with my Sustainable Illawarra Super Challenge vouchers. The staff there were really helpful, and gave me some good ideas for the types of trees that would suit our needs for the front yard. I pretty much…
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Sustainable Illawarra Vouchers Reminder
If you’re one of the families in the Sustainable Illawarra Super Challenge and you chose vouchers as part of your incentive package, make sure you check the use-by dates on them. I got vouchers for Cosmo Lighting and Wollongong Wholesale Nursery, and they are both valid only until the end of January. So get out…
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Interview And Photos
We did an interview and some photos with Paul from Wollongong Council for Sustainable Illawarra today. Paul is going around and gathering stories from about 25 different households, putting together some case studies and other materials for the Sustainable Illawarra project. Maybe we’ll end up on their web site, or possibly in a booklet or…
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Sustainable Illawarra Super Challenge Launches!
Last night was the official launch event of the [Sustainable Illawarra Super Challenge](http://www.sustainableillawarra.com.au/The-SuperChallenge.html), the programme that prompted the start of this blog. It was a great turnout, with most of the 120 or so families participating in the Challenge represented. I was excited to see a few familiar faces – people I hadn’t seen for…