Reducing your carbon footprint and living an environmentally friendly lifestyle is not achieved in a single step. It will always be the result of many small decisions and choices.
It begins with an awareness that every house - no matter where, no matter what it is built of, how old or how new - can be improved with some careful thinking. Any Australian home can be better environmentally and the add on benefits for you are enormous.
Building with the environment in mind begins by becoming aware of the space around you. By that we mean considering where the sun rises and sets, where the shadows are and where the wind comes from.
None of this is new or high tech but a lot of it has simply been lost in the budgetary pressure we encounter when we look at building. However, much can be achieved at very very little cost.
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