The ATA Coffs Harbour Branch will be operating a stall at the Bellingen Energy Festival so drop by and say hello to other ATA members who will be promoting sustainable living on World Environment Day, Saturday 5th June from 9am to 3:30pm at the Bellingen Showground.
The Bellingen Energy Festival is an annual event, showcasing environmental [...]

The branch will celebrate ATA’s 30th birthday at its stall at the Green Living Expo on 22nd August and will share a space with the local Transition Town group at the Carnival on Collins on 6th September. For Sustainable House Day the branch will work with the Tropical Green Building Network in Cairns and on [...]

Help replace Australia’s dirtiest power station with clean energy

This election year, the Alternative Technology Association (ATA) is joining a coalition of environment and community groups calling on the Victorian and Federal Governments to commit to Replace Hazelwood with Clean Energy by 2012.

Go to www.replacehazelwood.org.au to see how you can take action.

At the next Sydney Central ATA meeting we will have two talks, one by Guim Valls Teruel on his Electric Bicycle World Tour
The other  talk will be on “Sustainable Painting” and be presented by Rick Roberts, who has been supplying Sustainable Paints to the NSW Market since 2001.  Rick’s talk will focus on the benefits [...]

Our Hands Make Light Work

ATA’s East Timor International Project Group, along with the Victorian Women’s Trust and East Timor Women Australia, invite you to hear Carol Schwartz – Deputy Chair of the Australian Women Donors Network and a leading business woman – present at this fundraising event.

For more information click here.

When: Thursday 27 May
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
Geothermal Energy – Doone Wyborn, the Chief Scientist at Geodynamics Ltd, will provide an overview of their focus in developing renewable geothermal energy generation from hot [...]

When: Thursday 20th May
Time: 6.00pm
Where: C.ex Coffs (Coffs Ex Services Memorial & Sporting Club), Vernon Street, Coffs Harbour.
This meeting will feature a discussion on biodiesel and will cover what it would take to get a retail pump operating in Coffs Harbour and will also look at a relatively new bio-fuel source. There will also be [...]

Adelaide branch meeting – Tuesday 8th June
When:  Tuesday 8th June 2010
Time: 7.30pm
Where: Enfield Community Centre, 540 Regency Road, Enfield.
Entry fee:  Gold coin donation for ATA members –    $5 entry for non members
Program for the evening:
Sustainable Living
Karen Palmer will talk about her families sustainable home on a 350m2 block in Adelaide and [...]

In a period when many Australian governments are focused on large scale water supply and augmentation solutions, ATA is pleased to see the efforts being put towards water efficiency by the Commonwealth, as evidenced by this review of the WELS Scheme. An effective rating program is necessary to ensure that water efficient appliances and fittings achieve the large domestic water savings promoted by governments and green groups. For this reason, ATA is pleased to provide a submission to the Review’s Discussion Paper.

The ATA is pleased to announce it has been successful in receiving $57,400 from the Victorian Government’s Sustainability Fund to develop the Tankulator, an innovative rainwater calculator tool.
The Tankulator will help households efficiently harvest rainwater. It will provide postcode-specific rainfall data, which will assist people when buying rainwater tanks as well as helping them predict [...]