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Asking for advise Hairdressers are often little more than therapists clutching a pair of scissors and a blowdrier. Ditto real estate agents – except often they are left clutching brooms, lawnmowers and perhaps even rolling out wheelie bins. I remember my first week in real estate – one of the agents had to sweep away…
Timeproofing If you – or your parents(!) got married in the 1980s, chances are you would be embarrassed by the puffy sleeved wedding dresses and Princess Di hairstyles which were very in vogue at the time. Now if you got married this year, chances are you’ll look back in 20 years and cringe about the…
Gaby McEwan is an award winning Licensed Real Estate Agent and Auctioneer. In her twelve years in Real Estate she has an impressive track record and has sold a wide range of properties with a special emphasis and interest in Queenslander Homes and acreage properties/estates. Each week Gaby sends out a comprehensive newsletter “THE REAL…
Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned their lights off for one hour to make their stand against climate change. Only a year later and Earth Hour had become a global sustainability movement with more than 50 million people across 35 countries participating. Global landmarks such as…
A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activities have on the environment, and in particular climate change. It relates to the amount of greenhouse gases produced in our day-to-day lives through burning fossil fuels for electricity, heating and transportation etc. The carbon footprint is a measurement of all greenhouse gases we individually…
Global warming is the name given by scientists for the gradual increase in temperature of the Earth’s surface that has worsened since the industrial revolution. Over the past two decades the effect has become more marked. Considerable evidence exists that most of this warming has been caused by human activities… that’s to say we have…
Renewable energy is clean, safe, and inexhaustible… but it’s also vastly under-used. 82% of people surveyed in a poll said they believe reducing our use of fossil fuels is important. 60% consider pollution and climate change the biggest environmental challenge we face. 32% would give up cigarettes to pay for a green tariff. The easiest…
The picture below illustrates some of the main causes of heat loss in a typical house and provides some suggestions on how this can be reduced. Reduce energy usage in your home Within your home try to: Reduce the use of electrical appliances When replacing appliances, try to buy appliances which have a good energy…