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WormsDownunder - Useful Worm Farming Information
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Useful Worm Farming Information. Getting Started: Before adding the worms to your worm farm, make sure the bedding is moist (a good test is the ‘squeeze test’: squeeze a handful of bedding and a few drops of water should run out between your fingers). Gently tip the contents of the calico bag evenly over the surface of your worm farm bedding The calico bag can be placed over the worms and they will compost this too! As a general guide worms can eat up to their own body weight in food a day. So 1kg of...
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Work - Prevent stormwater pollution
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Join the green team. Make your profession sustainable. Save paper and forests. Buy green office products. Travel together to meetings. Make your business carbon neutral. Waste from industrial sites can cause major environmental damage if they enter the stormwater system. Businesses often use hazardous chemicals in the running of their business and are required to ensure that none of these chemicals, and other potential pollutants used in their business, are released into the stormwater system. Do not all...
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House - Reduce your stormwater pollution
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DIY environmental home checklist. Insulate, shade and weatherproof your house. Assess your homes sustainability. Reduce your stormwater pollution. Harvest and use your rainwater. Install solar hot water. Cultivate energy saving habits. Cultivate water saving habits. Install efficient appliances and fixtures. Generate your own electricity. Make your renovations green. Reduce your stormwater pollution. How to do it now! Ensure that the stormwater leaving your property is free of pollution:. Dispose of rubb...
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Food & Drink - Buy local and seasonal food
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Adopt a vegetarian diet. Avoid genetically modified (GM) food. Buy local and seasonal food. Avoid eating endangered fish. Reduce dairy in your diet. Buy local and seasonal food. Locally produced food grown in sync with the seasons is fresher and requires less energy to produce and transport to you. How to do it now! Buy and eat local and seasonal food! Farmers markets are a great place to buy locally produced food and a directory is available from the Australian Farmers' Markets Association. Changing our...
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Community - Be a responsible pet owner
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Help protect our waterways. Join a revegetation group. Join an urban regeneration group. Help protect our coast. Support our local indigenous culture. Be a responsible pet owner. Be a responsible pet owner. Pets give us company, affection and love. But with ownership comes responsibility; to care and nurture them and to minimise their impact on the environment. How to do it now! Put a bell on your cats collar to alert birds. Roaming cats kill native wildlife. Even well fed cats will hunt. Unless you're g...
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Banana Sustainable Living Guide | Rebates and assistance
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Check what Australian Government rebates are available to all Australians. And then check what rebates are available in your state. You maybe entitled to Small-scale Technology Certificates. For more details visit the Australian Governments Clean Energy Regulator - Incentives for Solar Panels. Web page and the Clean Energy Regulator - Solar Credits. Generate your own electricity. National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme. To find your local tariff offer go to the Energy made easy. For more detail...
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Banana Sustainable Living Guide | Waste
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No junk mail and spam. Cultivate waste reduction habits. Get rid of your second-hand goods. The existence of waste is an indicator of inefficiency in the human economy. We extract from nature to create billions of tonnes of things which we use once, then bury or pump them out to sea - and pay money for each of these stages! As individuals we can learn to avoid, reduce, reuse and recycle, with the journey ending with zero waste. natures finest. No junk mail and spam. Cultivate waste reduction habits.
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Banana Sustainable Living Guide | Community
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Help protect our waterways. Join a revegetation group. Deliver Low Carbon Diet program across 5 local council areas, focused on 3 to 4 towns in each area. Face to face engagement through direct invitation and door knocking. more. Help protect our waterways. Our water practices over the past 200 years have brought many of our waterways to their knees. Help restore our rivers, lakes and estuaries. more. Join a revegetation group. Our affluent society takes a disproportionate share of the worlds resources t...
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Banana Sustainable Living Guide | Transport
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Most of us still use the car as our primary mode of transport. However, one-quarter of all car journeys are less than three kilometres. Car travel has a very significant environmental cost and impacts negatively on our health and wellbeing. To ride a bike the same distance uses less than one-fiftieth of the energy required to drive. Explore sustainable transport options. Stay fit, focused and firm and help save the world. Explore bike paths, cycle groups and ride any blues away. more.
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