When: Thursday 16th October, 2008
Where: Level 2, 39 Little Collins St, Melbourne, 3000
Time: Presentation from 6pm: AGM commences 7pm.

Click here for the Notice of Annual General Meeting of Members (AGM) including a summary of ATA Board Member candidates and Appointment of Proxy Form.

Click here for a copy of the ATA Annual Report 2008.

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Australia’s leading sustainable living organisation, the Alternative Technology Association, welcomes the proposal for a national solar feed-in tariff for domestic solar, but has warned the federal government not to be swayed by the states.

Speaking at the Renewable Energy Amendment Bill inquiry the ATA said a nationally consistent, gross feed-in tariff will give homeowners the certainty they need to invest in solar power.

When: 17-19 October 2008
Where: Melbourne Exhibition Centre
More Info: www.savewatersaveenergyexpo.com.au/melbourne
Want to build green? Renovate sustainably? Make your home more energy efficient? Save your garden from the long hot summer? Protect the environment?
The Save Water Save Energy Expo focuses on green building solutions, water and energy saving products and recycling and waste management.
So whether you are building, [...]

ATA Brisbane Branch meeting
When: Thursday 25th September
Time: 7:15pm for 7:30pm start
Where: Albion Peace Centre, 102 MacDonald Rd, Albion (underneath Albion Overpass; UBD 140 Ref. D14)
Cost: $3, to help cover venue hire costs
RSVP required: Phil Alford phil_nicole@tpg.com.au

Energy Storage – looking at the Zn-Br flow battery
The next ATA branch meeting will feature an interesting presentation on [...]

ATA’s recent Melbourne Seminar (4/9/08) focused on the concept of Carbon Rationing: Could carbon become a new currency? – Are personal carbon allowances, reminiscent of wartime rations, the way forward?
ATA’s seminar explored the idea of carbon rationing, which has been examined by the UK Government in their report “A Rough Guide to Individual Carbon Trading” [...]

The Alternative Technology Association (ATA) welcomes the opportunity to provide comment on the Federal Government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme – Green Paper, prepared by the Department of Climate Change.
ATA sees the CPRS as one of the important policy tools that will be required in Australia’s fight against climate change. However, as the Garnaut Climate Change [...]

09 September 2008
Speaking at a senate inquiry today, Australia’s leading sustainable living organisation, the Alternative Technology Association, welcomed the proposal for a national payment scheme for domestic solar, but warned the federal government not to be swayed by the states.
“A nationally consistent, gross feed-in tariff will give homeowners the certainty they need to invest in [...]

Climate-friendly homes will reap the rewards after the Western Australian Government and opposition made election commitments to introduce a gross-metered, solar power payment, says Australia’s leading sustainable living organisation the Alternative Technology Association.

Under the proposals, people who install rooftop solar systems, up to 10kW in size, will be paid 60 cents per kilowatt hour for the electricity they generate, until their solar system is paid off.

The Victorian State Government’s solar feed-in tariff legislation, released today, could disadvantage families and the elderly, says Australia’s leading sustainable living organisation, the Alternative Technology Association.

Stay at home parents and retirees, who use power during the day and won’t produce excess energy, are unlikely to see the benefits of the net-metered solar power payment, says Brad Shone, the ATA’s Energy Policy Manager.

This submission will focus on the potential of a range of domestic demand side water saving measures and the policy initiatives required to deploy these measures throughout Melbourne. This submission will draw heavily from ATA experience, including a range of surveys and a number of projects undertaken over the past five years – projects that [...]