April 4 2010

We now have the revolutionary Insuladd® Ceramic Insulating Paint Additive you mix in with ordinary house paint to insulate and reflect heat from your home during warm months and to keep heat in during the cold months.

It's an insulating paint additive specifically designed for interior house paint when used inside your home and exterior house paint when used outside of your home, thereby Creating a Radiant Barrier i.e. an Insulating Paint!

Find out more here

July 19 2009

We are really pleased to have the Complete Idiots Guide to Greening Your Business here. Its a great read because it puts paid to the Myth Sustainability is a Cost to Business. We hold the Economy is a wholly owned Subsidiary of the Environment. This practical and easy to read Guide will help you find ways to improve all around your business. If its your business its a path to increased business success and satisfaction. If its your job, get this to your boss. We are pleased one of our team, Tony Goodson from The Three Moments, interviewed the authors. The podcast is here.

February 02 2009

This Christmas we got a new LCD TV. The issue was what to do with the old one which at 10 years old was still working ok.. We were unhappy about the idea of dumping it into landfill and charities aren’t able to accept electrical gear (don’t start me}. Theres info below on the problem and what we must do while waiting on government action

So what to do. We found that for FREE you can advertise in many spots. We decided to advertise in Thursday-Ad where it is free for items under $100. A simple ad “Free 60 cm TV to good home. 10 yrs old works well”.

20 plus phone calls later we could have given away 20 free TVs. The second caller picked it up straight away. It was for a 10 year old boy from Keysborough to play computer games on.

The great things about gifting what you don’t need are:

Someone else feels good, and so do you.

There is less waste to landfill (one day these sites will be mined which might help rid the soil of some of the poisons we have dumped).We are now searching the home for more things we can give away for free. Email info@coolgreen.com.au for our hints on gifting sites or if you have some ideas please let us know

Whats the problem with eWaste?

e-waste is consumer and business electronic and electric kit that is near or past its useful life. Typically computers, televisions, microwaves, cell phones, DVDs, stereos, photocopiers, fax machines, batteries, printers and cartridges

It’s a world wide problem, sales of electronic products is rising. Technical obsolescence is increasing. How to handle growing e-waste has become a major problem. It’s a big challenge for governments,manufacturers and us.

The volumes are enormous and rising. Estimates for Australia from just computers are between 7,000 and 8,000 tonnes ANNUALLY.

Whats in it is scary. Modern electric kit, is often made up of hundreds of different chemicals and materials. Many form hazardous waste. Lead, cadmium, mercury and arsenic are used in electronic kit, toxic materials are found in printer cartridges. Over time the poison will get into the water table, from there plants, animals, food and us. It is poisoning our future.

Thankfully the Government is moving to implement takeback schemes. But before takeback, consider regifting, sell on eBay etc or at least find a recycle centre on the web check Choice magazine.