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Michael Mobbs' Sustainable House

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My House
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Electricity
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21 June 2019
Michael Mobbs
Make a more natural nature strip

Here’s a simple, low cost , low tech design which keeps rain water where it falls to make a self-watering nature strip.

Let’s put nature into the ‘nature’ strips of our cities. It’s easy.

Make a more natural nature strip
2 April 2019
Michael Mobbs
23 years off grid for water in the centre of ...

What does the data tell us about living off-grid for water in the heart of Sydney?

Analysis of water quantity by an American intern in Sydney, Jillian Meehan.

23 years off grid for water in the centre of Sydney - what the data says
6 February 2019
Michael Mobbs
Aircon for on and off-grid houses

Here’s how to have aircon and be on or offgrid for electricity. Cool!

Aircon for on and off-grid houses
Michael Mobbs
31 August 2020

We compost over 300 kg a week in our road gardens

Michael Mobbs
31 August 2020
We compost over 300 kg a week in our road gardens

Each week our roadside solutions compost over 300kg of food waste to grow soil to grow food in our Chippendale road gardens.

Tagged: Garden design, Streetgarden, Food, Compost

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Michael Mobbs
31 August 2020

Plastic unfantastic x 3

Michael Mobbs
31 August 2020
Plastic unfantastic x 3

Two interns working with Sustainable House, Ailis O’Sullivan and Brianne Kendall, join me as we tell our three Plastic Free July stories. I found their stories and the similar and different policies, practices and mores fascinating – thank you, Ailis and Brianne.

Tagged: Plastic, Solutions, Recycling

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Michael Mobbs
22 August 2020

Solutions to burning food

Michael Mobbs
22 August 2020
Solutions to burning food

To burn food waste for energy is to burn soil in the making. No soil = no food. And, no us.

Tagged: Soil, Streetgarden, Compost, Food, Solutions

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