DIY
DIY: Self-watering vertical garden
Margaret Mossakowska shares her simple self-watering system for a vertical garden.
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DIY
Visible mending
Visible mending is easy, fun, gorgeous and keeps old clothes from landfill, writes Kasia Zygmuntowicz.
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DIY
Heating people, not spaces: the advantages of personal heating
How much energy can you save by heating yourself instead of your home? Will you be as comfortable? Dave Southgate describes his personal heating experiment.
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Windows
Doubling up: Secondary glazing case studies
We hear from a variety of householders about their window upgrades using secondary glazing and retrofitted films.
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Solar & batteries
Solar monitoring basics
You don’t have to be a solar monitoring obsessive to get useful information from your solar system. Lance Turner explains the basics of solar monitoring.
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Solar & batteries
Getting solar: from research to install
One homeowner shares the steps to planning a successful solar electricity system.
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DIY
Straight up: Vertical garden lessons
The last thing you want is to spend a lot of money on a vertical garden system and then have it fail. Jenny and Bevan Bates provide advice and inspiration from their own living walls—five years old and growing strong!
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Solar & batteries
Off-grid in WA: Riding the trail to sustainable living
Jai Thomas describes his parents' journey to off-grid living.
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Building materials
A house built of straw: Learn how with a strawbale workshop
You’re unlikely to go from building newbie to strawbale expert after a four-day workshop, but you should come out with basic skills, a better understanding of the process and the ‘right’ questions to ask.
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Water saving
Put your stormwater to use
Even dense inner-city housing can easily hold back most of its stormwater runoff—saving water, cooling cities, reducing flooding problems and protecting rivers. Chris Walsh’s inner-Melbourne house shows how.
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Reuse & recycling
From earth, cans and tyres: Earthship Ironbark
It took a few years, but Australia's first permitted earthship has set sail in its new life as B&B accommodation, and as a living laboratory. Owner-builder Martin Freney describes the voyage so far.
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