At the sustainability group sessions in July we covered a wide range of issues. At our first session we focussed on household energy savings tips; mostly common-sense ideas such as using LED lighting, turning down our heating thermostats in winter and turning our cooling thermostats up in summer; don't heat or cool rooms that are not being used; using ceiling fans in summer; shorter showers, and more. Tips can be found here . We also briefly considered Australia's former Chief Scientist's (Ian Finkel) new book setting out what needs to be done to transition to a sustainable energy future - a formidable, but not impossible, task according to him.
Our second session was more of a free-for-all discussion about a range of issues including Australia's waste and recycling problem, particularly for those 'soft' plastics that we used to be able to drop off at supermarkets. We also discussed a number of videos and articles on a wide range of topics from sustainable flying, to Sweden's new battery mega factory - a first for Europe, to the northern hemisphere's summer of climate-related woes, and others.
John Lane
Our second session was more of a free-for-all discussion about a range of issues including Australia's waste and recycling problem, particularly for those 'soft' plastics that we used to be able to drop off at supermarkets. We also discussed a number of videos and articles on a wide range of topics from sustainable flying, to Sweden's new battery mega factory - a first for Europe, to the northern hemisphere's summer of climate-related woes, and others.
John Lane
