Howard of Maroondah On April 18, an enthusiastic group assembled to hear Liz from Sustainable Gardening Australia talk about rainwater gardens. Liz started by explaining the issues with stormwater in an urban environment. Hard surfaces and compacted soil means most…
Our modern suburbs have far more hard and impermeable surfaces than natural bushland areas. Roadways, driveways, roofs and paving increase the amount of water flowing into our stormwater systems then into local creeks and rivers before much of it ends…
You want to save on energy and help the environment – what’s the next step? If you’re not sure where to start, our diagram shows the best first steps. Victorian Energy Compare can help you to find cheaper energy plans,…
ECAM is excited to announce our Stormwater Pollutant Reduction project, generously supported by Maroondah Council. This is a part of our broader River to Reef vision – a goal to help restore habitat within Port Phillip Bay. Our local rivers…
In response to the last ECAM newsletter, following are some comments on experience gathered over more than a decade in running an electric vehicle. Howard in Maroondah Libby and I first experienced driving an electric vehicle (EV) a long time…
To our members in Menzies, help make climate change a vote-determining issue in the marginal seat of Menzies. Together we can make sure climate is a key issue for voters in 2025! Step up for climate action ECAM is now…
In the same week two Chinese automakers launched their EVs in Australia, Bloomberg has written on the strife the German car giants are in, both in China and the rest of the world. Zeekr, a premium EV car maker, and…
Seeing as it is a topic that is unlikely to go away soon, I was curious to know what the state of the global nuclear industry looks like, where are new nuclear reactors being built? Here are two nuclear energy…
This is the second post inspired by Ron Ben-David’s call for structural revolution in our approach to retail energy services: the first is on why the electricity market is not a market. The customer is always right Marshall Field in Chicago…
One of the state’s former chief regulators has called for structural change in a paper that calls out the false narrative of the National Electricity Market (NEM) over 25 years – the false narrative that is a barrier to our community…