Another special tour due to demand

Due to demand I’m offering another special tour of the house with a copy of the new book, Sustainable House, so the lessons learnt here over the last 14 years can be looked at and discussed on site.  It’s at 11 am to 12 noon, Saturday 30 October. For information and bookings: Special tours of Sydney’s Sustainable House – 23, 30 Oct  Read More

Upon being a centrefold . . .

Steady. Pause your beating heart, and breath. Sustainability has today gone centrefold. Ok, so I’m being dramatic, but it is such a B E A Utiful day, I hope there’s a song in every heart that shares it. (Don’t you reckon Earth sometimes can’t resist herself and she puts on days like today when she sings, “Look at me, Look at me . . . “; mmmm ah lurves her then.) Anyway, in the Sydney Morning Herald’s Style liftout section today there is... Read More

Engrossing analysis of the US failed climate bill

It’s in the New Yorker, here: www.newyorker.com… Excellent writing about a key moment in US and Earth’s history. Enjoy, M  Read More

Bob Carr blogs book launch

Bob Carr has blogged yesterday’s book launch of Sustainable House here:   bobcarrblog.wordpress.com… Enjoy, M  Read More

Early media on Sustainable House book launch

The online magazine, The Fifth Estate, has a story today on the launch of the second edition of Sustainable House, and an extract from it, too;  here – www.thefifthestate.com… Enjoy, Michael  Read More

Bob Carr to launch 2nd Ed Sustainable House book

Some 14 years after the then Premier Bob Carr launched Sydney’s Sustainable House by pulling the knob on a front loading clothes washing machine, Bob will return to the house to launch the second edition of my book, Sustainable House. In the 14 years that’ve passed over 1.5 million litres of sewage has been kept in the tiny back garden, and over 1.4 million litres of dam water has been left in the dam.  We’ve been drinking rain water here in the city all that... Read More

Sustainable Books

Sustainable Food – Limited offer – Signed copies Signed copies Email me directly here to place an order (price to be announced), and I will reply with order details and upon payment mail you a signed copy. Other orders You can also order unsigned copies direct from the publisher at CHOICE Books Sustainable House 2nd Edition – Limited offer – Signed copies Signed copies Email me directly here to place an order for $45 plus postage, and I will reply with order... Read More

Sydney’s Sustainable House on CNN’s Spanish TV

You can watch the report on Sydney’s Sustainable House on CNN’s website. The one about this house is called “Una casa verde”.  Give it a few seconds to load then Click on it and enjoy… right after the advert.  I’m dubbed into Spanish of course. Enjoy, M  Read More

Choosing a sewage system for a house

I’ve been asked this question: “We are very interested in installing an aerated system to treat our greywater for in-house use and would appreciate any advice on which supplier to use. So far Ozzi Kleen have been the most responsive to our enquiries.” I consider at least two products for on site sewage projects: Aqua Nova (aquanova.com…, and Innoflow (www.innoflowtechnologies.com…) The first is about half the cost of the second.  Both will do the... Read More

The little house that could

No rain water or stormwater has left Sydney’s Sustainable House in the storms this year. So far, in 14 years, the house has: kept over 1.5 million litres of sewage here in a garden some 3 square metres produced such high quality and low quantity sewage that a leading soil expert says the garden’s good for another couple of decades of sustainable water use like the last 14 years stopped over 112 tonnes of greenhouse gases polluting Earth’s air left over 1.5 million... Read More