Sustain Myself

Eco Eggs Chook Cam

I love this. These chooks look so happy, this is such a good use of technology. Check out the chook cam! No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

New to the Team

So glad to join the “sustain myself” team. There is room to move people! Change is afoot. Viable options exist for those of us wanting to leave a smaller footprint on this earth. Here at “Sustain Myself” my hope is that you will find some useful information, some inspiration, and the knowledge that there is some room [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Sustainable House Day 2010

Sustainable House Day 2010 is on this weekend with houses all over the country opening their doors (and gates) to people interested in sustainable living. Basically, check out the list of open houses, grab the kids and go for a mosey. We have 1 open house literally a stones throw from our place and another several [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

You can’t keep a good girl down

I have a genuine reason for not posting in a while this time. I had a motorbike accident in the beginning of June which has left me with a pretty badly damaged arm. Anyhoo, onto the important stuff… As you may or may not have read, our chook Roxanna was pretty badly attacked by a dog [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

My poor chookers

As usual, its been a while since I have posted, but the weekend’s events have motivated me to get this post out there… About 5 weeks ago, we found our lovely girl, Rosanna, dead in the back yard. The victim of what would appear to be a fairly vicious attack. We knew immediately that Baci was [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

The single greatest purchase a home owner can make

A few weeks ago, we had our Cent-A-Meter delivered. Wow. The Cent-A-Meter is a small device for monitoring your real-time household power. You can see current usage, current cost, current emissions and then view the peaks or totals for the day, month or quarter. In other words, if you were interested in reducing the power [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Eco Modding – Getting the best efficiency from your car

A lot of us try to maximise the milage from the cars we have, whether they are new efficient cars or ageing guzzlers. We try not to use the air conditioning as it uses more fuel, keep the tyres inflated properly, don’t accelerate aggressively etc in an attempt to remain efficient in our petrol usage. I [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

I wear my solar panels at night!

Bec and I have been throwing around the idea of getting solar panels on our house for quite some time but have not had $5k just lying around to do it. With current initiatives from the NSW Government, we are looking at getting solar now in the next few months and I think you’d be [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Blog Action Day 2009: Climate Change

Welcome to Blog Action Day 2009. This years topic is ‘Climate Change’ which is a fairly hefty topic that covers to many different areas. Last year was more concise and focussed on Homelessness, I contributed to that BAD also. As the Americas are still in their slumber, I thought I’d get my post in early. [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

What year is this?

I was watching a show on Discovery last night about how they make Apache attack helicopters (or as I like to call them ‘Stupidly overpriced death machines’.) I was stunned to learn that the machine gun under the helicopter will point where ever the pilot looks! That means that all he has to do is [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.