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Archive for December, 2008

Projects for the New Year

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Ok this year things should settle down a bit and I can get back to some of the projects I have always wanted to do:

Build a HAWT for the back garden
Build a desk with some modual battery holders (So you can charge a car battery outside and bring it inside to the desk and plug [...]

Testing Bridfeeder

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

I just installed birdfeeder and I want to see if it will work!

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Tis the Season to Consume

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Well Christmas has just finished and I have a fairly green family so alot of our gifts we tech-ie little green toys so I thought I’d share some with you:
Eco-Kettle: Boils only the water you need to use. You don’t to buy one of these to do this but this did make it easy to [...]

Starting Out!

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

I’m a pretty average Australian guy and I have a large interest in Greening my world. I live in the city in a small place a work 9-5 (or a few more hours a week as most do these days).  I’ve always found it a bit of a challange to find what I should be [...]