Energy Efficiency

For the last 15+ years I have actively promoted energy efficiency to all and sundry; I have letters from various local government bodies either write condescending letters or supportive ones, but still inaction has been the order of the day. Currently I am proceeding towards an Assessors certification under the federal government’s ‘greenloan’ scheme and [...]

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I’ve been watching the next erosive economic wave build-up as the ‘big bank’s toady’ and current RBA (Reserve Bank of Australia) governor Glenn Stevens comment about lifting rates. With about as much good judgement as (the USA’s) Alan Greenspan, he is apparently not happy with interest rates at 3% and feels they should be much [...]

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The Australian Housing Industry Association is one of the leading backward thinking bastions of growth is good; their lack of comprehension and single mindedness is added to the small but overly vocal and financially liquid group trying to convince the government that as their business will suffer from lack of demand (read consumers) and overheads [...]

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On the early morning television news, there was an article about the average wealth in Australia (although slipping 12% over the last year) being $224,000, twice what it was ten years ago. Less than 6 weeks ago – on SBS – Gerry Harvey (Harvey Norman) indicated that his personal fortune had dropped by $2 billion [...]

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Back in the last 80’s I was made aware of a statistic that for every house lost through fire, forty-eight houses were lost – to the banks – due illness or injury (the actual number lost though eviction is not one readily available; however, as an indicator, HLIC (Home Loan Insurance Corporation – a home [...]

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