|
 As an individual - you can lower your power bills, and help the environment by lowering the amount of carbon produced by your actions.
Cut your home emissions covers the topics:
- Heating, Coolling, Draftproofing, Insulation,
- Energy efficient lights and appliances,
- Use of Solar energy,
- Your food choices,
and other educational resources.
Latest Sustainability Workshops for Beginners
Other useful articles below.
|
|
|
|
Resources -
For Individuals
|
FREE home energy assessments in Ballarat
 Sue Harling is the local Central Victoria Solar City Home Energy Assessor. Central Victoria Solar City is offering 90 minute home energy assessments, at no cost to Ballarat residents, as part of their research trial into how we think about and use energy.
|
|
Last Updated on Tuesday, 14 December 2010 08:19 |
|
Resources -
For Individuals
|
|
Every day we use power in our homes. Things that we take for granted like cooking and eating, turning on the lights, and driving the car, all produce greenhouse gases which are contributing to climate change.
To reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and have a positive impact on climate change, it can be useful to get a better understanding of how much greenhouse gas our own household is generating.
Download the pdf here and learn how you can track greenhouse gas emissions in your home. |
|
Last Updated on Monday, 07 December 2009 06:31 |
|
Resources -
For Individuals
|
Latest Workshops
Dates for the current workshops can be found here - Sustainablity Workshops for Beginners
BREAZE members and subscribers will be kept advised of the availability of these workshops via the BREAZE e-news.
You can register as a subsciber to recieve these emails - its Free!
Read more to see the history of the workshops run through the Climate of Change Project.
|
|
Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 March 2010 01:22 |
|
Resources -
For Individuals
|
|
Cars are the primary means of transport to work within the Ballarat community and around 2/3 of trips are made by one person with no passengers {ABS 2006}.
Only 5.7% of trips were made as a passenger in a car, 3.7 % of people walked to work and 1.2% rode their bicycles. Just 0.9% of people used buses to travel to work in Ballarat, which is slightly lower than for Melbourne {1.0%} but higher than Bendigo {0.7%}.
Read more to see a Transport video, graphs and further information.
|
|
Last Updated on Saturday, 27 March 2010 23:19 |
|
|
|
|
For Individuals
