Speed Date a Sustainable Designer

Are you renovating or building? Do you have plans and ideas you’d like to discuss with green architects or building designers? ATA with the support of bankmecu is conducting speed dating events in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in 2012. Meet Australia’s leading architects and building designers in the one spot so that you can discuss your plans in a relaxed “no obligations” environment.

Watch the free online seminar on rainwater harvesting and greywater

Windows, glazing and bushfires workshop: listen to the audio files

The Strathewen and St Andrews Sustainable Rebuilding Project recently hosted a workshop on energy efficient windows, doors and glazing for bushfire prone areas.

Download the presentations or listen to the audio files of the two speakers Tony Isaacs and Tony Paarhammer.

Visit the Tankulator: ATA’s new online rainwater calculator website

The Tankulator is a free interactive online calculator that helps people plan for a new rainwater tank or improve the performance of existing tanks.

Developed by the ATA with funding from the Victorian Government Sustainability Fund, it calculates how much rainwater can be harvested from a roof anywhere in Australia based on rainfall figures from the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station.