The next ATA Sydney Central meeting will be on July 8th at 6pm at 3rd Floor, Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, 280 Pitt St Sydeny, and will include a talk by Alistair Duncan, CEO of the Eco Living Centre, on the topic:

Global Lighting Trends – Whats new and why CFL’s are not the answer.

Monday, July 7, 6.30pm
Where: 2nd floor, Kindness House 288 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
Topic: The Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation (TREC) and its applicability to the Australian context
The Beyond Zero Emissions discussion group will again focus on Concentrated Solar Power, but this time in the context of a bold plan to harness Australia’s solar resource to supply a [...]

In our submission, ATA welcomed the progress of the Demand-Side Participation Review, however noted that many of the issues contained within the review have been examined and discussed for some time. Indeed, ATA provided a submission to a similar process by the Ministerial Council on Energy over two years ago – the Draft Code of [...]

In this submission, ATA supported the views and concerns expressed in the joint submission by the St Vincent de Paul Society St Victoria and the Consumer Utilities Advocacy Centre. In particular, ATA was concerned with the lack of clarity surrounding the definition of Time of Use pricing, the notification period for tariff reassignment and the [...]

International Projects Group Manager Anton Vikstrom is in East Timor this month overseeing various renewable energy projects. Here’s his latest news.
It has been 12 days since I left Australia and I’ve been flat out since then.
Maliana is a district in the mountains on the Indonesian border. The ATA has been invited by the Leichart Friends of Maliana to investigate solar power for three schools and a library. Alongside meetings with officials I also conducted four site assessments for the projects. This involved travelling up some very rugged tracks to some very good new schools in the most picturesque sites you can imagine. We arrived in Sabarai village at 8am as the school kids where starting to arrive.

During the last half of 2007, the ATA in conjunction with RMIT Environmental Science Department, undertook a soil analysis of seven surburban properties around Melbourne that have been using greywater on their gardens for a number of years. Sites were specifically selected on the basis of soil type, greywater reuse history and consistency of the [...]

Do you want to know which soaps and shampoos are safe for greywater reuse? So do we!

The ATA is conducting an online survey into what soaps, shampoos, conditioners and body washes ATA members are using who irrigate their gardens with bathroom greywater. This information will inform the basis of further study that ATA and RMIT [...]