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Are you inclinded to underestimate ?

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May 272012

Sustainability is not just for the Environment or reducing our impact it includes social sustainability. Can we help others to live full and rewarding lives ? Common Cause thinks so, and has the tools and resources to do so. If you visit there site now you can take the quick quiz How well do you know your Sydney?

Many of us have lived in Sydney for all our lives but don’t really know what’s going on. Take the quick quiz to see whether you know the real Sydney.
After answering the correct answers will be displayed.

I was surprised how I underestimated things, what about you ?

Visit Now www.commoncause.com.au

You can also Access A summary of the Common Cause Report into Sydney’s key social issues or the summary report. Note the two reports are miss labeled on the website links.

When people lives are healthy they can then work with us to improve our lives and the environment.

Stop CSG Sydney

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May 252012

www.nogasmininginsydney.com

News and Events and FAQ’s on Coal Seem Gas

What is Coal Seam Gas?

Coal Seam Gas (CSG) is a gas consisting of around 98% methane and is formed from the degradation of plant matter over millions of years. CSG is trapped by water and ground pressure against the surface of coal in underground coal seams and is also located within pores inside the coal. The spaces between the coal are known as fractures or cleats. Some of the fractures are interconnected and permeable which allows water and gas to move between the fractures.

How is Coal Seam Gas extracted?

CSG is extracted via CSG wells that are drilled into the coal seams to release the gas trapped within the coal. For economic extraction of CSG, coals seams in Australia are generally between 200metres – 1,000m metres deep. The CSG wells are cased with steel and cement. In situations where coal seams are very deep and of low permeability, the use of hydraulic fracturing or ‘fraccing’ may be employed to increase permeability. This process involves pumping fluid comprising water, sand and other additives such as BTEX (BTEX is an acronym for benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene compounds) at high pressure down the cased CSG well and into the coal seam. This action fractures the coal seam and provides a pathway to facilitate gas flow through the coal.

www.nogasmininginsydney.com

STOP CSG Sydney

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May 252012

www.nogasmininginsydney.com

News and Events and FAQ’s on Coal Seem Gas

What is Coal Seam Gas?

How is Coal Seam Gas extracted?

www.nogasmininginsydney.com

ATA’s YouTube Channel

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Apr 262012

Get informed about sustainability

ATA webinar — Retrofitting your home for energy efficiency

http://www.youtube.com/user/AlternativeTechAssoc

This is the third in the Alternative Technology Association’s series of free online presentations to share practical knowledge about energy efficiency, sustainable building and water conservation at home. It introduces a range of techniques and products to help retrofit your house for better energy efficiency, such as LED lighting, draught proofing, window coverings, insulation and secondary glazing.

The Conversation is underway

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Mar 262012

The Conversation is a great source of qualified information on sustainability and climate change. Celebrate its first year !

Environment + Energy: reflections on our first year

http://theconversation.edu.au/environment-energy-reflections-on-our-first-y…

Environment and energy stories topped the charts as The Conversation’s best-read articles of any section in our first year. Hundreds of thousands of TC readers read and argued about humanity’s often difficult relationship with our planet. This troubled pairing is the genesis of much – if not almost all – of what we are, what we have made, and what we have done.

Building an Outstanding Sustainable House – ATA Webinar

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Mar 042012

This webinar introduces the passive solar design principles and sustainable material choices behind the design and build of a new 9.1-Star home in Melbourne’s northern suburbs. The home is featured in the current issue of Sanctuary: modern green homes magazine, published by the ATA.

The webinar will feature a presentation by designer Jeremy Spencer of sustainable design and build practice Positive Footprints, and a conversation with homeowner Elizabeth Wheeler on how the finished house performs as a green family home. It will finish with a Q&A session.

Behaviour change for Sustainability tools

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Feb 082012

It can be quite hard to bring people over to views that we need to care for our environment, this includes natural, social and economic sustainability.

Why is there so much misinformation and why are facts not enough ?.

You will go someway to answering these questions if you read the following item on “The Conversation” a new information source written by people who know what they are talking about, rather than after a underpaid rushed journalist has manipulated the facts Fighting fact-free journalism: a how-to guide. I can thoroughly recommend you get the Debunking Handbook referred to.

If you want to get right into it consider downloading the paper The Second National Risk and Culture Study: Making Sense of – and Making Progress In – The American Culture War of Fact which is still relevant in Australia.

Finally if you would like to start a project to work with others to dispel misinformation and promote facts for sustainability why not join us in the topic Behaviour change for Sustainability tools at LaSourceProjects Google group.

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