Reduce Your Energy Consumption, Now!

• Learn how to heat your house by monitoring the effects of opening and closing doors, curtains etc at different (warmer and cooler) times of the day. Modify your habits to reduce need for lighting and heating. Rearrange the rooms and furniture to utilise sunlight and its warmth. Add pools to increase microclimate inside house, reflected warmth and heat and cooling during summer.
• Assess your use of the car, organise to minise its waste. Try alternatives, get to know your public transport options.
• Try raw foods instead of daily cooked meals. Enjoy your link to the land through cooking and share meals with friends. Assess your consumption of value-added foods. Eat a balanced diet and buy the most nutritious forms of your foods. Look to reduce foods that are costly to the environment (a lot of meat or a lot of mono-crop foods). Favour organically produced foods, they should have a BFA stamp. [Australian Standard]
• Try co-housing options such as share the care of children or older people, shared meals, shared transport, shared laundry, cooking and work facilities.
• Join LETS where you can spend a little before you have to earn some, build up the trust in bartering with community members and explore low cost (financial and social costs) fun.
• Start channeling your money into long-term assests, small purchases like seed will provide much more interest and value than a savings account.

Its your money, your time, your skill, your future.