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Welcome to Week Two Power and Living Simply

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The Course OutlineWk 2 Mar 13

Power - Shani and Nathan Stone from Solar ShopSimple Smart Living - Tim

Wk 3Mar 19

Water - Nigel Thompson from Earth & WaterHealth Smart Home - guest

Wk 4 Mar 26

Gardening for Productivity and Diversity Panel

Wk 5 Apr 2

Waste - Chuck Ellis from SMRCHealth Smart You – Maggie Overman GM foods

Wk 6 Apr 9

Move Smart - David Worth From Sustainable Transport CoalitionCommunity Living Smart - What can we do?

TBC OUTING

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Power SmartSaving Energy and reducing global

warming

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The Greenhouse Effect

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The Consequences

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Species on the move

“…birds are arriving three and a half days earlier per decade….We are seeing these sorts of shifts with just a 0.7 degree change in temperature” Dr Lesley Hughes, Macquarie University

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Australia’s Role

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It’s all interrelated

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Where our Power comes from

http://www.energy.wa.gov.au/cproot/799/5305/RenewableEnergyFactSheetAug2006FINAL.pdf

Slide 12http://www.sedo.energy.wa.gov.au/pages/energy_smart_homes.asp

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How can we reduce

energy use in our

home?

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Technological and

Behavioural changes

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Heating and Cooling Your Home

Pictures from Cool It - http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/gwci/index.html

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Orientation

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Insulation and Thermal Mass

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Ventilation

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Shade

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Unshaded single glazed w indow

Internal venetian blinds

Internal holland blinds

Tinted glass

Trees-full shade to light shade

External roller shutter

External aw ning

Pergola w ith vines or shade cloth

Amount of heat blocked compared to unshaded glass

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Peak Oil

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•Address your energy use

•Energy in goods, travel

•Address your electricity source– Green Power tariff from Synergy– Your own roof-top solar PV system

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Welcome to Nathan Stone