Ecoworld Australia Monthly

Dean Ervik talks with Andrew Scarlett from www.feedintariff.com.au - a must see website - about the present and the proposed solar incentive schemes that the Australian Government are contemplating. They discuss how these schemes effect the general publics ability to purchase and install grid tied solar, as well as how these constant changes, for the worse, seem to be effecting the battle worn Australian Solar Industry in a negative way.

Help Australia find its way towards a hopeful and helpful 80c gross renewable energy feed in electrical tariff, by listening to this podcast and then going directly over to the petition website and signing up to show your support for the country, the industry and your planet. We have to show our enthusiasm and support of renewable energies, using this petition, if we are going to wake the politicians up out of their bickering miasma.

If we can get the numbers up high enough maybe the Australian Government will listen and help increase the uptake of Solar Grid Tied systems by introducing this tariff scheme to assist people in making Solar, Wind and other renewable energies more affordable.

You can find the original MP4 file here.

(William “Stinky” Stirling is away at a training seminar at the Rocky Mountain Institute, so we have Lan Tanner standing in for him this time around).

Ecoworld chats with Murray Hallum of “Practical Aquaponics for Everyone” fame. Murray explains a great deal about the systems he has developed for raising fish and vegetables together using various sized home based Aquaponic kits and systems.

Murray and Deano discuss the benefits of Aquaponics with relation to human health, energy conservation, food quality and its place in the upcoming peak oil crisis, while touching on the use of renewable energy to drive the pumps that are used in home aquaponic systems.

If you have not yet installed iTunes or another podcatcher program on your computer and then subscribed to the podcast in iTunes or from this website, you can find the interview file in Mpeg 4 format here.

Greening Australia do a great deal of excellent work in efforts to reforest Australia. Dean and Ron briefly discuss some of the benefits of reforestation and it’s importance locally as well as on a global scale. Ron also explains the way Greening Australia works its business model and its funding process as well as its employment benefits. Ron further explains how Greening Australia projects may be aligned with the carbon trading industry to help make an impact on carbon emissions. Dean has a bee in his bonnet about the need for reforestation and its links to assisting with increased rainfall….

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Andrew Partos from Vic Urban explains Co-Housing and its many benefits for helping in community development and integration. There are many support structures created for families once they are living in a co-housing situation and it may very well become the model for a more sustainable version of suburbia by reducing the need for resources to be spread far and wide in a world quickly running out of oil.

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We chat with Jai of Veggie Head with his one man bicycle based plan to work locally around Melbourne, creating edible food gardens. Jai Cheswick has cut his transport costs to ziltch, feels healthier and is passing on the savings to his customers, he is moving to a less hectic lifestyle and literally working locally and thinking globally. Jai tells us of his plans to go “Open Source” with his concept, which is another great idea of his.

You can download this 6 minute mp4 video podcast file here.

In this information rich interview, Brett Dutton of the Hepburn Community Wind Farm Project gives us an in-depth insight into the Australian and New Zealand Wind Farm Industry, its potential and present incarnation, as well as informing us of the details behind Australia’s first ever community funded wind farm project in Daylsford, Victoria. Brett gives us the recent history of the project and explains how it will run and be managed as well as how people in Victoria can invest in the green energy project and make a real difference in the Australian energy landscape, while still getting a return on their investment.

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We chat with Clive Burke, a founding member of the Westmill Community Windfarm project.

Clive hopes to bring his expertise to Australia and help our community at large to develop wind farm solutions in this time of peak oil and increasing energy demands, pricing and pollution. You have our full support Clive.
 

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Deano talks briefly with Ross Blade of Blade Electric Vehicles while he demonstrates his cars at the Sustainable Living Festival in Melbourne, 2008.

You can download the 44mb quicktime movie here. Or subscribe to it in your favourite podcatcher program, for example iTunes.

In our Eco-Videos section, under Transport, you can find two more videos with Ross talking at a trade show, giving us lots more detailed information about his cars and how they are made.

We talk with Mike Hess of Mariah Power about the latest details concerning the vertical wind generator range they are developing.

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