Resources

Useful links

Adelaide Sustainability Centre
Ideas for living more sustainably, covering recycling, transport, food, nature play, pet and pest management, water and garden.

Natural Resources Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges
Find out how to make your backyard a wildlife wonderland, attracting birds, lizards or butterflies. Learn about building a raingarden, native plants, native animals, and pests.

Water Sensitive SA
Discover ‘water sensitive urban design’, a modern way to manage water that combines nature with engineering, to protect our waterways and oceans while keeping more water in our urban areas. Choose the right sized rainwater tank, reduce hard surfaces around your home, install a raingarden and get ideas if you’re building.

PAPERS

Papers have been prepared for use by community groups on the major topics we have focussed on. They include background information and details about programs that provide assistance through local, state and federal governments and other agencies.

Economy

• Economy Working Group Report 2011 – providing a framework for discussion on ecologically and socially responsible alternatives to economic growth
• Alternative Economy Groups

Energy

• Energy resources paper
• Home energy audit
• Solar energy systems

Food

Transport

• Transport issues paper

Waste

• No Such Thing As Rubbish – updated September 2017
• Battery recycling
• Electronic waste – updated July 2017

Water

• Water resources paper
• Bottled water
• Grey water
• Natural Cleaners
• Wicking box self-watering garden – how to make

Ecological footprint

• Calculate your personal ecological footprint
• Ecological Footprint Resources Paper
• Eco footprint action booklet 2010 – a guide to achievable actions that you can use to map your progress

Networking

• Networking for sustainability

Behaviour change

• Sustainable Behaviour Change – presentation by Beth Mylius, Nadia McLaren and Rapsodie Barbour at South Australian Food Convergence February 2010