Climate Action Network is a community based initiative to fight climate change. It has grassroots groups with distributed leadership throughout Australia. Its mission is to bring focus to climate change and climate action from Australians. Energy Matters attended a local community Climate Action seminar in Burwood, NSW, in the suburbs of Sydney on Monday April 29, 2019.
A new solar housing estate in Fremantle will feature rooftop solar and microgrid technology to save future residents thousands in energy bills. The development features blockchain-ready solar townhouses with built-in electric vehicle chargers and a communal solar battery.
Woolworths’ solar power plan continues to make headlines after it raised $400 million in the first green bond issued by a major Australian retail chain last month. Moree in northern New South Wales is the latest Woolworths supermarket to go solar. The Moree rooftop solar array of 99.96 kW comprises 357 solar panels.
The famous inventor Edwin Land said, “It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.” He seemed to be telling us that solutions lie just beyond our old habits of thinking.