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 litres of water in the dams
• stopped over 1.5 million litres of stormwater polluting Sydney Harbour
• stopped over 56 tonnes of coal being burnt
• saved over $42,000 in water and energy bills

It’s the little house that could.  Can.  And does.

The story of what worked, what didn’t and how anyone can do this – and others who are doing it, too – is in the second edition of my book, Sustainable House, to be published October 2010.

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