Illawarra Climate Challenge Wrap-Up
I won the major prize in the Nature Conservation Council of NSW’s Illawarra Climate Challenge!
I won the major prize in the Nature Conservation Council of NSW’s Illawarra Climate Challenge!
Photos and videos of Monday’s flooding around Jamberoo.
Not long ago I dropped and broke a compact fluorescent lightbulb (CFL) in the garage. D’oh! I had a vague recollection that there’s a procedure you should follow to safely clean up broken CFLs, due to the small amount of mercury inside them. So, geek that I am, I jumped on the computer to look … [Read more…]
I was recently interviewed for another gardening article in the [Illawarra Mercury](http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/). My [last interview](http://green-change.com/2009/03/19/my-interview-in-the-illawarra-mercury/) was back in March, on the subject of lunar planting. Unfortunately they don’t put these articles online, so you’ll have to make do with this dodgy scan – click on the image to make it bigger (be warned, it’s a … [Read more…]
I’m now officially a suburban eco-warrior – the newspaper said so, so it must be true! I finally got a chance to scan the [Illawarra Mercury](http://www.illawarramercury.com.au) article I was interviewed for last week. Click on the small image to see the full-sized one (be warned – it’s about 750 KB). You might have to zoom … [Read more…]
If you’re visiting this site for the first time thanks to the link in the lunar planting article in today’s [Illawarra Mercury](http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/), here are a few articles that will give you further information: – [What Is Lunar Planting?](http://green-change.com/2008/12/11/what-is-lunar-planting/) – [Phases Of The Moon](http://green-change.com/2008/12/10/phases-of-the-moon/) Also check out the Upcoming Events in the left sidebar to see … [Read more…]