Smart Energy Expo Newcastle 2008 will be held on 29th and 30th November 2008 at the Honeysuckle Boiler Shop, Newcastle.
Watch for the ads in The Herald and on NBN TV in November!
This year’s Expo will showcase a wide range of appliances, products, services and ideas available to the people of Newcastle to make their own contribution to tackling climate change. Read the full story
Hunter TAFE’s onsite childcare facility, Carinya, is proving it’s never too early to learn about sustainability and good environmental practices.Rachael Kinsella, an early childhood teacher at Newcastle TAFE Campus, developed an environmental education booklet which has been published through Early Childhood Australia, titled “Greening Services: Practical Sustainability”.
On Saturday October 25 over 800 residents came through the gates of Newcastle City Council’s Turton Road Depot between 9am and 3:30pm for an Electronic Waste drop off event. This year 30 tonnes of hazardous electronic waste was diverted from landfill dwarfing last year’s collection of 3 tonnes of e-waste from 130 participants.
Hunter TAFE is committed to environmental sustainability and we have adopted a range of programs and strategies to move our organisation, local businesses and the community towards greener production and consumption.
‘Green Collar’ jobs are expected to boom in the near future and Hunter TAFE can train or retrain workers through individually customised courses to create a more environmentally sustainable region. Read the full story
NBN has taken a lead role in promoting Together Today to help position Newcastle and the Hunter region as world leaders in producing energy and water efficient solutions.
Each week, NBN’s 6pm News features a Together Today environmental story to inform us about exciting initiatives.
As part of the weather segment on Tuesday nights, Garry Youngberry keeps a watchful eye on ClimateCam.
Created by Newcastle City Council, ClimateCam is a city wide power meter that uses a web-based measurement and reporting tool to track greenhouse emissions for the City of Newcastle.
Welcome to the Star Newspaper who has joined Together Today as an Associate Member.
Keep an eye out every Wednesday for the Star’s Climate Champion series.
Are you a climate champion? If you’re doing something to help the environment at home, work or school, we would like to hear from you. Send your story to: info@togethertoday.com.au
Eighteen schools from across the Hunter will today celebrate being sponsored by five local organisations to participate in the ClimateCam® for Schools project. Developed by Newcastle City Council, ClimateCam for Schools tackles climate change at a local level by showing students how to reduce energy and water use in their schools.
Launched in July, the project provides a unique sponsorship opportunity for businesses to help local schools save money and help the environment. Of the eighty schools on the waiting list, the first eighteen can now get started.
Round one sponsors include Macquarie Generation, Biodiesel Industries Australia, Port Stephens Council, Newcastle Port Corporation, Newcastle Herald and Newcastle City Council. Read the full story
As the climate debate continues to dominate headlines on a daily basis, the immediate call to action is becoming very clear.
The honeymoon days of cheap electricity and gas are well and truly over. But the question is: will increasing costs change the way we use energy?
Hi I’m Pete Dormand and I have been invited to share with you my ideas and views over the coming weeks about what we can do to reduce our energy and water costs and consumption.
This week I’d like to set the scene. In the weeks following, we will take a tour through our homes and find ways to save a few dollars and help our planet. It can be a bit hard to think about saving household energy or water because we don’t get the bill until months after we have used it. Imagine if it was the same when you did the grocery shopping? Read the full story
Local households and businesses in the Newcastle and Hunter region are invited to take advantage of the latest TogetherTODAY initiative, an easy and free service for reducing energy and water costs while helping the environment.
The Enviro Saver Program is a one-stop point of call delivered by Fieldforce Services Pty Ltd. Following the recent opening of a new office and call centre in Morisset, the Enviro Saver Energy Assessors have been flooded with requests to install free energy and water saving showerheads and energy- efficient light globes.
City Energy and Resource Manager PETER DORMAND says the Enviro Saver Program is the second TogetherTODAY initiative to be announced following the launch of ClimateCam for Schools in July this year.
“TogetherTODAY aims to establish the Hunter as the most energy and water efficient region in Australia and the Enviro Saver Program is a practical way homes and businesses can get involved and save money at the same time.” Read the full story
