![]() Left: All the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it) including sea water, ice, lakes, rivers, ground water, clouds, etc. Right: All the air in the atmosphere (5140 trillion tonnes of it) gathered into a ball at sea-level density. Shown on the same scale as the Earth. Source: Adam Nieman / Science Photo Library |
- Bottle tops 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014
- Other peoples projects
- Permaculture
- 100km diet
- Household Energy Descent Plan
- 2006 Rotorua World Trials Champs photos Aug 2006
- Climate change
- Localisation, Transition Town, Peak Oil, Permaculture, Moera
- Book list - just a list of books for friends (other must read book lists.
- Old weather data from my house - updated every 10 minutes. (The web cam shows our front lawn (location map), the sky looking northeast, and the house over the road. )
Energy efficiency and environment idea reminders:
(This is just a list of ideas I might want to remember on day)
- Rain water tanks - used 200 litre barrels
- Rain water tanks - used 1000 litre plastic wired framed tanks
- Rain water tanks - childrens swimming pool under the deck
- Rain water tanks - used water bed bladder under the deck
- Add more grassy areas on suburban roads to absorb rain/storm water (reduces the peak flows into storm water systems)
- plant (more) fruit trees and nut trees on public land
- eat local challenge - can I/we eat local-only food for one day a week?
- Used cooking oil bio-diesel
- collect all the used cooking oil from Moera take-away shop (3 fish-n-chips, and 1 cafe)
- purchase a bio-diesel micro refinery bio-diesel micro refinery
- use it in diesel cars and emergency generator
Interesting links
- Cooreea - an open collaborative transportation network
- Light earth construction
- Economics learn everything you need to know about the economy in the shortest amount amount of time
- How can I recycle this?
- Top Energy Star rated appliances
- Web Urbanist
- CO2 production by vehicle mode - Sightline Institute
- The benefits of bicycling 11 page PDF 378KB - Cascade Bicycle Club wiki version
- Global distribution of the worlds water
- How To Carry Groceries With A Square Of Cloth
- Hutt City Council Election Results 2007
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