Future proof your strata
An opportunity to hear from other strata owners and industry experts on how different energy and waste approaches could potentially provide cost savings or add value to your property.
Building sustainable communities
An online event – Sat 3rd Dec 2022 If you missed the event, you can watch the video here. Speakers from three different South Australian eco-villages: Aldinga Arts eco-village, Christie Walk in inner Adelaide and Millers Corner, Mt. Barker will … Continued
Above and below-ground transport
Planning for a bigger and more vibrant Adelaide You’re invited to a community meeting at the Minor Works Community Centre on 8th Sep 2022, 5:30pm to 7:30pm. (Minor Works Building, 22 Stamford Court, Adelaide – between Sturt and Wright Streets.)
Episode 10 – Time-shifting energy usage
Out of the blue, our electricity retailer replaced our electricity meter with a smart digital meter, enabling billing based on time-of-day usage. So would our Tesla Powerwalls enable us to optimise, to benefit both our billing and the grid?
Ambassador – Carbon Neutral Adelaide
At tonight’s Carbon Neutral Adelaide Awards event, Christie Walk was made a Carbon Neutral Adelaide Ambassador, an honour given so far to only 3 others of the 200 Carbon Neutral Adelaide Partners. It was given in recognition of 3 decades … Continued
Episode 9 – Battery storage – adding a second Tesla PowerWall
2021 – Battery options modelling In September 2020 we installed our first battery at Sturt Apartments, Christie Walk. You can read the story of our modelling, battery choices and lessons learned in Episode 7 – Battery storage – Tesla PowerWall 2 … Continued
Episode 8 – We need to talk about shower heads
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How sustainable is your daily shower? Most shower heads at Christie Walk are WELS 3 standard, running at about 9L/minute. They were the best that were readily available when construction of our eco-village was completed in 2006. Older shower heads … Continued
Episode 7 – Battery storage – Tesla Powerwall 2
2020 – Battery options modelling In the middle of all that work on evacuated tubes, we learned that change was imminent in the SA Government Home Battery Scheme. To qualify for the maximum $6k subsidy, applications had to be lodged … Continued
Episode 6 – More evacuated tube solar hot water boosters
Adventures with an environment-conscious inner-urban community 2020 This was the crisis year for so many people – bushfires, COVID, job losses – and it also happened to be the year of our most adventurous emissions-reduction planning, carrying out 2 major … Continued
Episode 5 – Finalist – Carbon Neutral Adelaide Awards
Adventures with an environment-conscious inner-urban community 2016 to 2019 – Carbon Neutral Adelaide Since 2016 we’d had regular contact with the Carbon Neutral Adelaide team, culminating in our carbon emission inventory for the 2017 year. I’d also attended the Carbon … Continued