DIRECTOR BLOG: News from solar-e.com Director Garry Baverstock

Solarday 2012
By admin on July 31, 2013

SolarDay - SolarDay lives! John Reed the founder of SolarDay Worldwide is tenaciously continuing to work towards cementing the program as a truly national and international event in 2014. He has tirelessly worked to gain the sponsorship and corporate investment needed to make this worthy event a very long-term, inter-generational initiative. We applaud John Reed’s community building and private enterprise approach, taking many years to make his idea a valuable contribution to the evolving …

Foxcliffe Farm Ecovillage
By admin on November 13, 2012

Mike Hulme recently sent this update on the Foxcliffe land development at Witchcliffe. Image retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/24farmli.html Dear Friends of Foxcliffe Farm Ecovillage, I am delighted to inform you that the Augusta Margaret River Shire Council unanimously passed the amendments to the Witchcliffe Village Strategy and Local Planning Strategy that are required to enable the Foxcliffe Farm Ecovillage project to proceed to WAPC for appro…

Get Solar Campaign
By admin on February 3, 2012

What is the Get Solar Campaign? The Get Solar Campaign will be a collaborative initiative to provide a consistent commercial focus for all the solar energy optimisation industry groups, key manufacturers and companies involved in solar energy products. Solar energy is now cheap enough but we need government to establish a fair price for selling energy back to the grid. We need a level playing field based the true cost of carbon pollution. Collective action is obviously already happening via gr…

Australian Carbon Price will Reduce Carbon Pollution
By admin on November 14, 2011

With a new Australian carbon price voted in, irrespective of political positions Australia can no longer be accused of 'dragging its feet' or being a 'climate change bludger'. [caption id="attachment_2134" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Australian Carbon Price"][/caption] Finally with this Australian carbon price decision, after four years of frustrating manoeuvring by lobby groups and destructive attempts by climate sceptics there is tangible action on the table. The volatility surr…