Sustainable House Day 2011
A success across the country as 1000’s of people visited an open home or attended a local event.
Over 35,000 People came to to visit an open home in their local area. The feedback so far has been very postive as visitors and home owners connected during the day and shared stories of their sustainabe living journeys . For more information and updates on sustainale living, please visit www.shmeco.com
Sustainable House Day 2012, Sunday 9th September
Competition Winners
We would like to congratulate the following people on winning prizes in the SHD2011 Competition:
J. Skinner SA
D. Francis NT
D. Ray QLD
N. Port NSW
G. McNally TAS
P. Sloane ACT
L. Scott QLD
M. Mithen VIC
C. Wallis WA
T. Andrews VIC
J. Potter WA
L. Rushton QLD
S. Gebicki TAS
S. Bywaters SA
M. Ornsby VIC
J. Seach NSW
B. Castle SA
S. Royse VIC
S. Petrony SA
L. Justice NSW
S. Boldiston NSW
M. Gray QLD
B. Kernich NT
S. Chirgwin TAS
G. Zacher WA
M. Hettinger ACT
S. Way WA
Ancillary Events
As part of Sustainable House Day we encourage as many community groups, businesses, schools and councils to host or run an event that promotes awareness of sustainable living.
We are in the process of uploading Ancillary Events so please check back closer to the time.
If you have a Sustainable Living event over the Sustainable House Day weekend 10th and 11th September 2011 planned contact us to list it here.
Councils join SHD2011
We are pleased to announce a number of councils across Australia are joining in on the SHD celebration. We will update their events and activities, in the mean time, check out their Sustainable Living initiatives.
Ararat Rural City Council – Victoria
Bathurst Regional Council – New South Wales
Cassowary Coast Regional Council – Queensland
City of Greater Geelong
City of Mandurah – Western Australia
City of Port Phillip – Victoria
City Of Vincent – Western Australia
East Gippsland Shire Council – Victoria
Fraser Coast Regional Council- Queensland
Kogarah City Council
Lane Cove Council – New South Wales
Meander Valley Council – Tasmania
Mornington Peninsula Shire Council – Victoria
Mosman Municipal Council – New South Wales
North Sydney Council – New South Wales
Rural City of Wangaratta – Victoria
Southern Grampians Shire Council – Victoria
Sunshine Coast Regional Council – Queensland
Townsville City Council – Queensland
Yarra Ranges Council – Victoria
Willoughby City Council – New South Wales
The Laminex Group
Greenfirst is the corporate philosophy that underpins The Laminex Group’s environmental approach. Committed to sustainable building practices, The Laminex Group offers an extensive range of environmentally-preferable surface solutions for builders and renovators alike that in many cases, exceed industry standards.
The Laminex Group offers an extensive range of low emission products including low formaldehyde products of E0, Super E0 and No Added Formaldehyde (NAF), in addition to low Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) products.
The Laminex Group is proud to be the first business in our category to achieve an ecospecifier global GreenTag™ dual certification for all our raw and decorated MDF products. The GreenTag™ program is one of Australasia’s most respected environmental certifications and recognised by the Green Building Council of Australia.
Find out what’s happening in Sustainable Living Today!
If you can’t wait till September 11th you can interact with home-owners via our online community shmeco.com this is a great way of learning from others or sharing what you are doing.
Search through this site and you will find all the information you need about the day including:
- 2011 home information is currently being updated
- Many Ancillary Events are being run in conjunction with SHD 2011
- List of the 2010 Sustainable Homes that opened across Australia
- Information about the event and the Sustainable living movement
Sustainable House Day 2011 Community Service Announcements
Check out our new CSA TV Ad!
Check out our new CSA Radio Ad!
Sustainable House Day is managed by Shmeco – in association with AuSES (Australian Solar Energy Society).
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