Community - Renew

ReNew

The third way of organic waste management

20 Feb 2025

Ashley Wearne makes a case for community composting.

Community

Game of life

16 Apr 2024

The Adaptation Game is a new interactive board game that uses science and storytelling to simulate how you and your community can respond to the next 10 years of climate change.

Reuse & recycling

Community eco hub

17 Oct 2023

Nathan Scolaro spends 15 minutes with Stuart Wilson and Michael McGarvie from the Ecological Justice Hub in Brunswick, Melbourne.

Community

What is ethical investing?

13 May 2020

Ethical investing is booming. But there are important questions potential investors should ask before jumping aboard, explains Sophie Weiner.

DIY

Making space for DIY

21 Jan 2020

DIY projects are often a solitary pursuit, but that’s where a makerspace can come in, providing a place to share tools, ideas and expertise. Ralph Johnstone visits one in Melbourne.

Community

Our sustainable community

16 Dec 2019

See some of the 30 fantastic entries in our reader competition ranging over many different areas of sustainability.

Transport & travel

Catching the carpooling opportunity

20 Aug 2019

If just 1% of Victorian cars took a passenger to work, there could be 30,000 fewer trips per day. So why aren’t more people carpooling? Bruce Campbell considers what’s needed.

Solar & batteries

Can solar gardens help more people access the renewable energy revolution? And what are the financial and legal considerations? Pilot studies by the Institute for Sustainable Futures and Community Power Agency are giving some answers.

Solar & batteries

Making kerosene history Pay-As-You-Go solar energy

12 May 2019

While the western world takes electricity access for granted, a large part of the world has no such luxuries. But that is changing. Renew’s Harry Andrews explains.