Michael Mobbs

19 April 2023

NSW councils give up on climate solutions

Michael Mobbs

19 April 2023

NSW councils give up on climate solutions

“• Challenges of reducing substantial emissions from council waste management facilities mean that some councils cannot consider being carbon neutral. “

IPART Summary of Rate Peg Workshops 12 December 2022

Michael Mobbs

29 March 2023

What would a truly sustainable council look like?

Michael Mobbs

29 March 2023

What would a truly sustainable council look like?

“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth, persistent, pervasive, and unrealistic.”

- John F Kennedy

Michael Mobbs

26 March 2023

Rats, councils, garbage and compost

Michael Mobbs

26 March 2023

When I renovated my terrace house in Chippendale in 1978 each time I came on the mostly demolished building site rats scurried away across the whole building site.

Michael Mobbs

14 March 2023

Councils contractually addicted to garbage

Michael Mobbs

14 March 2023

Councils contractually addicted to garbage

“Chief financial officer Paul Binfield [from Cleanaway] told analysts there would be consistent revenue streams from these [council] projects, and long term bank funding.”

The Australian Financial Review, February 2022

Michael Mobbs

12 March 2023

Wildlife rescue of baby ringtail possums in Chippendale

Michael Mobbs

12 March 2023

Wildlife rescue of baby ringtail possums in Chippendale

“She was found by Jacqui in the gutter on Cleveland St and trying to cross the busy road.“

Michael Mobbs

11 March 2023

How to grow veggies in an apartment

Michael Mobbs

11 March 2023

Here is Coco’s story about how to grow veggies in a Chippendale apartment.

Michael Mobbs

3 March 2023

Coco from Japan confronts worms, flies, bugs in Chippendale, Australia

Michael Mobbs

3 March 2023

Coco from Japan confronts worms, flies, bugs in Chippendale, Australia

“When I tried composting on the first day, I was overwhelmed by the huge number of flies and worms inside and around the compost. Honestly at first, I was not confident if I could keep doing it every week.“

Michael Mobbs

24 February 2023

Residents lose $2 million down the drain, get hit with $1.7 million bill

Michael Mobbs

24 February 2023

Residents lose $2 million down the drain, get hit with $1.7 million bill

Rain water is free. Earth’s weather delivers it to our houses, cleanly.

So why pay for town water?

(Zac Efron loved the rain water when he visited my house for his new doco, Zac Efron Down Under.)

Michael Mobbs

14 February 2023

How to keep rain where it falls

Michael Mobbs

14 February 2023

This blog by Ashley Qiu, intern with Sustainable House, gives some options to keep rain where it falls. Thank you, Ashley.

Michael Mobbs

14 February 2023

Is the sun setting on food waste in Chippendale?

Michael Mobbs

14 February 2023

Is the sun setting on food waste in Chippendale?

“Chippendale plans can stop the suburb’s food waste this year”.

So says Ashley Qiu, intern with Sustainable House.

Michael Mobbs

11 January 2023

“Wonderful decay on my first Sydney day”, Ashley Qiu

Michael Mobbs

11 January 2023

“Wonderful decay on my first Sydney day”, Ashley Qiu

“I was curious to learn more about an area I was unfamiliar with – sustainability and how that plays a role in business. Admittedly, I do not have a green thumb, some could say maybe the opposite.”

Michael Mobbs

11 January 2023

Upcoming story - Solutions to extreme market failure of Australia's Council food garbage rates

Michael Mobbs

11 January 2023

Upcoming story - Solutions to extreme market failure of Australia's Council food garbage rates

Story coming soon . . .

Michael Mobbs

8 January 2023

Launch of water policy at Sydney’s Sustainable House

Michael Mobbs

8 January 2023

Launch of water policy at Sydney’s Sustainable House

On Wednesday 18 January Elizabeth Farrelly will launch her new party’s water policy at Sydney’s Sustainable House in Chippendale, Sydney.

Michael Mobbs

13 December 2022

What I have learned and achieved through internship

Michael Mobbs

13 December 2022

What I have learned and achieved through internship

Intern Jagger Clapsadle, from the U.S., sums up his three months internship in Sydney, NSW, Australia

Michael Mobbs

12 December 2022

A farm garden for off-farm income

Michael Mobbs

12 December 2022

A country garden brings off-farm income, on-farm joys, birds, insects, snakes, and beauty and so much life. Sue’s story will grow on you.

Michael Mobbs

12 December 2022

Hills of Gold - trees, birds, beauty threatened by greed

Michael Mobbs

12 December 2022

Hills of Gold - trees, birds, beauty threatened by greed

Wind farms ruin hundreds of hectares with a “fish skeleton” of road networks - access roads are 30 metres wide to get turbines onto individual turbine sites

Michael Mobbs

1 December 2022

The public cost of politicians' greed

Michael Mobbs

1 December 2022

Sean Johnson tracks some donations to politicians and publishes them on his site, Open Politics. Here are his most recent thoughts on corruption in federal politics in Australia.

Michael Mobbs

7 November 2022

Five reasons for libraries

Michael Mobbs

7 November 2022

Libraries support, grow and sustain democracies - book burners are despots who close libraries, democracy

Michael Mobbs

28 October 2022

Jagger's story from the streets of Sydney, Australia

Michael Mobbs

28 October 2022

Jagger's story from the streets of Sydney, Australia

Jagger discovers the big, the small, the weird and the magic of nature on Sydney’s streets while working as an intern with Sustainable House - I love to see the world through the eyes and hearts of interns and really appreciate their voice on this blog

Michael Mobbs

23 October 2022

Sustainable House in new Zac Efron doco series

Michael Mobbs

23 October 2022

Sustainable House in new Zac Efron doco series

Keep an eye out for the Sustainable House in a new Netflix docuseries about Australia’s environment with Zac Efron, “Down to Earth”. Releasing 11 November.

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.

NSW councils give up on climate solutions

What would a truly sustainable council look like?

Rats, councils, garbage and compost

Councils contractually addicted to garbage

Wildlife rescue of baby ringtail possums in Chippendale

How to grow veggies in an apartment

Here is Coco’s story about how to grow veggies in a Chippendale apartment.

Coco from Japan confronts worms, flies, bugs in Chippendale, Australia

Residents lose $2 million down the drain, get hit with $1.7 million bill

Rain water is free. Earth’s weather delivers it to our houses, cleanly.

So why pay for town water?

(Zac Efron loved the rain water when he visited my house for his new doco, Zac Efron Down Under.)

How to keep rain where it falls

This blog by Ashley Qiu, intern with Sustainable House, gives some options to keep rain where it falls. Thank you, Ashley.

Is the sun setting on food waste in Chippendale?

“Wonderful decay on my first Sydney day”, Ashley Qiu

Upcoming story - Solutions to extreme market failure of Australia's Council food garbage rates

Launch of water policy at Sydney’s Sustainable House

On Wednesday 18 January Elizabeth Farrelly will launch her new party’s water policy at Sydney’s Sustainable House in Chippendale, Sydney.

What I have learned and achieved through internship

A farm garden for off-farm income

Hills of Gold - trees, birds, beauty threatened by greed

The public cost of politicians' greed

Five reasons for libraries

Jagger's story from the streets of Sydney, Australia

Sustainable House in new Zac Efron doco series