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Membership Services Reopening in October
After months of work to improve our online services, Renew membership services will resume in October, 2021.
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Sustainable House Day 2021 starts this week
Sustainable House Day is back for another year, with even more ways to explore some of Australia’s most unique and inspiring homes, and learn from the people who designed them, built them, and live in them.
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Toowoomba Branch Event
17/10/21 – Toowoomba Sustainable House Day Tours
Renew's Toowoomba Members' Branch will be hosting tours of three Toowoomba region sustainable houses on Sustainable House Day, 17 October.
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Climate Resilient Homes
Households Better Off: lowering energy bills with the 2022 National Construction Code
Households are better off with more energy-efficient homes. Renew's report on cutting energy bills with the 2022 National Construction Code.
Read moreCreating a sustainable building industry
In the next 30 years, Australia will need to increase the number of homes it builds each year by 20% to avoid compounding the current affordability challenges that the community already faces. In this webinar, University of Wollongong doctoral candidate Makrita Solitei discusses what we can do to transform the building industry to consider the lifestyle of our building materials. See more videos from Renew on our YouTube channel.
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Solar & batteries
Sharing the sky: The case for agrivoltaics
Is sharing high-value land between agriculture and renewable energy generation the future? And will it be enough to save the planet? Rémi Rauline and his fellow authors make the case for agrivoltaics.
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Policy
The big switch (off)
A unique set of circumstances has South Australian owners of rooftop solar panels staring down the prospect of having their grid exports curtailed—a scenario that may well lie in all of our futures.
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Buyers guides
The energy-efficient home office
Working at home has become the new normal for many of us. Lance Turner takes a look at how you can help reduce your energy consumption while stuck at home, with a focus on ensuring your computer setup is fit for purpose and not an energy guzzler.
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House profiles
House of comfort
Dylan and Robyn built a small, inexpensive and super-sustainable house in Adelaide using strawbales. Now, they wear t-shirts indoors all year round and get paid by their energy company, rather than paying bills.
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House profiles
Space upgrade
Architect Emma Scragg designed a modest two-storey rear addition to a Brisbane home that has a large impact on how the homeowners live, and minimal impact on the existing house.
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House profiles
Proof positive
Veteran of an owner-built, deep green backyard flat project in Mittagong, NSW, Andy Lemann applied his learning to the main house, retrofitting it for much improved energy efficiency.
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