Sydneysiders are being encouraged to go green through a free giveaway of 1,000 trees – part of the City of Sydney’s work to increase the city’s urban canopy.The free trees will be available at Sydney Park on Saturday 29 March from 10am to 2pm. Residents can apply online and bring…
TerraCycle has partnered with major brands Colgate and Natures Organics to recycle their “unrecyclable” post-consumer waste, and with Nespresso to expand their recycling program. Australians can now send in their previously difficult-to-recycle waste to TerraCycle to be recycled into sustainable consumer products and materials. “This is just the beginning and…
DuncanMeerding has won the Green Award for Best Sustainable Design at ‘TheEdge’, a national competition for emerging designers as part of Sydney Decoration and Design 2014. Meerding’s design ‘Stump’, embraces the cracks often found in salvaged timber and has created a unique light which can be used in an indoor or outdoor…
This year Carolyn Cardinet’s work was featured as part of the Sustainable Living Festival at the historic ‘White House’, headquarters of Dumbo Feather magazine in St Kilda. This ‘One day installation’ created an eclectic wonderland crafted from salvaged objects. Assemblages decorated the large windows and painted works on repurpose paper…
Melbourne’s path to a more resilient and self-sufficient future was set last week with the endorsement of two key Council documents. The Zero Net Emissions and Total Watermark strategies identify new targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the municipality over the next four years, and build on efforts to…
To celebrate the launch of green magazine’s new-look website, Melbourne’s own low-energy LED lighting company, Brightgreen, is offering our readers exclusive discounts on three of its most popular lights through a group buy scheme! We’ve been fans of Brightgreen since we first discovered their products several years…
Back issues are available for Australia only at $10.95 each. Every issue is filled with inspirational stories on sustainable design featuring local and international houses, gardens and profiles. Discover spectacular city, country and coastal homes and gardens featuring environmental design with lots of personality. Green is published bimonthly and available…
With the beginning of a new year and a bounty of renewal, comes the resurgence of the next bushfire season. Instigated by a combination of high temperatures, strong winds, low humidity and flammable vegetation bushfires are a growing relentless calamity which has affected the lives of Australians for more than…
Australia’s very first six star dishwasher – washing and rinsing a full load in less than ten litres of water – has landed! Smeg Italy, global appliance innovator, has raised the bar on water. Earlier this year it released the first ever 16- minute dishwasher only to follow six months…
Until this house appeared a little over a year ago, the residential suburb of Keparra, with its collection of post-war timber bungalows, could best be described as architecturally modest. Now it’s become a destination for anyone interested in unusual, compact and yet highly functional architecture. Threading its way along the…
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