Sustainable Living Guide
A comprehensive guide of advice, tips and inspiration on how to live more sustainably ...read more
myfootprint
An online tool to calculate your carbon emissions and create a personal action plan to save power, water and money ...read more
Sustainable Stirling Programs
See what the City of Stirling is doing to make our region sustainable ...read more
EXPLORE ACTIONS THAT SAVE POWER, WATER, MONEY AND HELP FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE
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Help protect our coast
Keeping our fragile coastal ecosystems healthy and vibrant preserves the unique ...
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Immerse yourself in nature
Go hiking, bird watch, swim in the sea or simply enjoy nature and your connectio...
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Prevent stormwater pollution
Waste from industrial sites can cause major environmental damage if they enter t...
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Be a responsible pet owner
Pets give us company, affection and love. But with ownership comes responsibil...
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Eat organic food
Too many pesticides, herbicides and fungicides in your food? Try eating organic.
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Use non-toxic cleaners
Common cleaning products, disinfectants and air fresheners are creating a toxic ...
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Join the green team
Join or create a work team focused on dreaming up and implementing schemes to r...
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Adopt a vegetarian diet
Join the mung bean nation! Prevent the sizzling death of a thousand innocent ani...
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Avoid genetically modified (GM) food
Avoid eating Genetically Modified (GM) Food and demand more thorough testing and...
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Buy local and seasonal food
Locally produced food grown in sync with the seasons is fresher and requires les...
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Ride a bike
Stay fit, focused and firm and help save the world. Explore bike paths, cycle gr...
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Eat less meat
Replace at least one meat meal per week with a vegetarian option. Land used for ...
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Reduce dairy in your diet
Bovine breast milk goes great with your cereal, but its production contributes 4...
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Cultivate energy saving habits
Energy saving habits are easy to learn. By changing your daily habits, you can s...
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Install efficient appliances and fixtures
When investing in large household appliances and fixtures, use the government's ...
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Insulate, shade and weatherproof your house
Insulating, shading and weatherproofing your house can save you up to 45 per cen...
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DIY environmental home checklist
Time to grab the clipboard and run the environmental ruler over your home. Ident...
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Cultivate water saving habits
Water saving habits are those easy-to-learn daily behaviours that can save us th...
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Generate your own electricity
The sun hitting your roof can power your home. It's just a question of gadgets.
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Embrace energy efficiency
Energy conservation can save resources and money through the adoption of efficie...
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Use water efficiently
Water conservation on the driest continent on the planet is essential, logical a...
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Harvest and use your rainwater
Install a rainwater tank to collect and store rain hitting your roof and use it ...
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Install solar hot water
Sunlight converts cold water into hot water. No gases are emitted and no one get...
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Buy an energy efficient car
With the emergence of peak oil and climate change as hot issues, car manufacture...
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Assess your home's sustainability
Like many of us, and with the impending carbon price, you might be thinking abou...
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Install efficient appliances and fixtures
When investing in large household appliances and fixtures, use the government's ...
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Harvest and use your rainwater
Install a rainwater tank to collect and store rain hitting your roof and use it ...
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Buy local and seasonal food
Locally produced food grown in sync with the seasons is fresher and requires les...
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Water efficient gardening
With less rainfall and hotter weather predicted in the coming decades, we need t...
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Reduce dairy in your diet
Bovine breast milk goes great with your cereal, but its production contributes 4...
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Invest ethically
Your investments may fund activities that are not sustainable and may be contra...
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Install solar hot water
Sunlight converts cold water into hot water. No gases are emitted and no one get...
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Generate your own electricity
The sun hitting your roof can power your home. It's just a question of gadgets.
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Insulate, shade and weatherproof your house
Insulating, shading and weatherproofing your house can save you up to 45 per cen...
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Install efficient appliances and fixtures
When investing in large household appliances and fixtures, use the government's ...
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Make your renovations green
Renovations are the ideal opportunity to make your house more efficient and sust...
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Ride a bike
Stay fit, focused and firm and help save the world. Explore bike paths, cycle gr...
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Reduce and offset car emissions
A litre of petrol produces about 2.3 kilograms of greenhouse gases and more than...
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Join the green team
Join or create a work team focused on dreaming up and implementing schemes to r...
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Choose green service providers
Wading through the ‘green wash’ to find service providers whose pro...
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Use public transport
Buses, trains and trams all use far less resources than cars. Increased use will...
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Buy an energy efficient car
With the emergence of peak oil and climate change as hot issues, car manufacture...
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Buy renewable electricity
Every time you use electricity in your home greenhouse gases are belched out on ...
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Reduce and offset air travel emissions
A return flight to Europe and back will travel over 25,000 kilometres and emit o...
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Cultivate water saving habits
Water saving habits are those easy-to-learn daily behaviours that can save us th...
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Buy local and seasonal food
Locally produced food grown in sync with the seasons is fresher and requires les...
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Save paper and forests
The production of paper uses trees, chemicals, energy (greenhouse gases) and wat...
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Eat less meat
Replace at least one meat meal per week with a vegetarian option. Land used for ...
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Assess your home's sustainability
Like many of us, and with the impending carbon price, you might be thinking abou...
-
Adopt a vegetarian diet
Join the mung bean nation! Prevent the sizzling death of a thousand innocent ani...
-
Cultivate energy saving habits
Energy saving habits are easy to learn. By changing your daily habits, you can s...
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Power down
Energy conservation at work saves resources, slows climate change and leaves the...
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