"Have spent the past two years,as an owner builder with great assistance from my wife, building a totally sustainable home. We have used materials with low embodied energy, a sensible design which requires no cooling and little heating, solar voltaic with wind turbine supplement, solar hot water, roof collected rain water, grey and black water treatment for re-use. The next challenge is to find energy efficient appliances etc. What a pity power consumptin figures are missing from so much product literatire.

"I am working hard at doing it - recycling food scraps and packaging, saving and collecting water, buying green power, growing organic food and lessening my energy use. I have also set up a blog to record this journey and other people’s as well. Check it out at www.greenfoot.com.au

"I let my grass grow for the lizards to hide from the cats.