- Carbon Offset Guide - Helping to choose Carbon Offsets within Australia
- Carbon Offset Watch - Carbon Offset Watch is the first independent ranking of Australian offset providers. Completed in August 2008, information and products can change - please check for new information from providers and use the tips for buying offsets.
- Directory - Ecodirectory - Online directory of green products and services plus campaigns, non-profit organisations, information, green blogs, econews and more in Australia.
- Directory - Energy Planet -Renewable Energy Directory of Blogs categorised (global)
- Directory - Green Blogs Directory - The directory of green and sustainable themed blogs. People discussing all sorts of green and sustainable issues.
- Directory - The Green Pages - Directory, news, events, new stuff, competitions, people and campaigns in the name of green
- Energy - Energy ratings - a leading guide to choosing an energy efficient appliance, a joint initiative of the Commonwealth, State and Territory government agencies
- Energy - Reducing your Energy Sokitt - a site which helps you find out which appliance will give you the best efficiency for the least cash
- Ethical Shopping - Ethikl - sustainable goods direct from independent artists
- Ethical Shopping - Locate Australian - find you local Australian made products through here
- Ethical Shopping - Oxfam Shop - Wide range of fair trade goods
- Ethical Shopping - Siham Craftlink - Siham Craftlink imports the largest diverse range of fair trade gifts available for wholesale purchase in Australia. They also do fundraising
- Gardening - Gardenate - planting calender for kitchen garden, also has apps for phones
- Gardening - Sustainable Gardening Australia - a not-for-profit, non government group dedicated to the way Australians see their gardens, information, volunteer programs, and networks for gardeners.
- Homes - ACF Green Homes - an environmental education program by the Austalian Conservation Foundation Green Home that is working with communities to find individual and collective solutions to environmental issues.
- Homes - Environment Design Guide - the Australian Institute of Architects Environmental Design guide that is able to be purchased for non-members through this site.
- Homes - Green Makeover - can help your business or organisation reduce waste and improve sustainability. Specialising in waste audits, recycling check ups and waste reduction plans. The West Brunswick Sustainable House is one of Australia’s leading sustainable homes, transformed with a `green makeover’ by Stuart McQuire and Wendy Orams. Get ideas for your own home. Save money, improve comfort, achieve sustainability.
- Homes - Green Painters - how to find Green Painters, how to DIY with Green Painting, how to become a Green Painter, Training, Members Forum
- Homes - Your Home - Your Home is a suite of consumer and technical guide materials and tools developed to encourage the design, construction or renovation of homes to be comfortable, healthy and more environmentally sustainable. A collaborative project between the Commonwealth Government and the building and design industry.
- Homes - Make Your Home Green - Make Your Home Green has been developed to provide a single resource of information. Make Your Home Green brings together information and advice from a range of excellent sources and has been designed with simplicity and accessibility in mind. Information on saving water, reducing energy, saving money, reducing waste, and improving health. A collaborative project between Victorian State Government, Building Commission and Plumbing Industry Commission.
- Homes - Windows - Window Energy Rating Scheme rates the energy impact of windows in housing anywhere in Australia. With up to 40% of a home’s energy for cooling or heating being lost or gained through windows, improving their thermal performance reduces energy costs and Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions.
- Information Laundry Detergents - Lanfax Labs - research into the best environmental choices for laundry detergents
- Nursery - Victorian Indigenous Plant Nursery - VINC has been propagating and supplying local native (indigenous) plants to schools, local government and government agencies, community groups, landscape gardeners and members of the public in the North and inner East of Melbourne since 1985 and is located on picturesque Yarra Bend Road in Fairfield, just 4km north-east of Melbourne CBD, Australia.
- Recycling - OzRecycle - Free Recycling - Australian Recyclers Community helping our environment by reducing landfill. How do we do this? By giving away and getting things for free (gifting) instead of throwing them out to the tip or into the wheelie bin. Since the site was launched in 2007 items large and small have offered for free through the OzRecycle Community Classifieds.
- Recycling computers - Byteback - a free computer take-back program to help people dispose of end-of-life equipment, or equipment that has reached the end of its useful life responsibly. Victoria only.
- Recycling Computers - Green PC - refurbishes used computers received from government and business organisations and makes them available to those who might not usually be able to afford a new computer system.
- Renewable Energy - Clean Energy Council - The Clean Energy Council is the peak body representing Australia’s clean energy sector. It is an industry association made up of more than 500 member companies operating in the fields of renewable energy and energy efficiency
- Renewable Energy - Green Power - explanation of green power for businesses and individuals
- Solar and Wind Energy - Solar Online - one of the largest suppliers and integrators of renewable solar power products in the country
- Solar Energy - Going Solar - Renewable Energy with the latest technologies
- Solar Energy - Kyocera Solar - an unlimited and clean source of energy that does not damage the Earth’s environment. In order to help preserve the global environment while promoting the growth of human society, Kyocera is committed to the technical development and proliferation of solar power generation systems.
- Solar Energy - Solar Australia - an established market leader in independent energy and mobile energy equipment both in Australia and New Zealand
- Solar Energy - Solar Energy International - hands-on and online solar training and renewable energy education in wind, micro-hydro, sustainable building and developing world technologies. Solar Energy International also works with grassroots and development organizations to promote sustainability and improve quality of life worldwide through viable outreach programs. Ride the renewable energy wave with training onsite or online with Solar Energy International
- Solar Energy - Solar Shop - researching and selecting the right solar energy technology for Australian conditions and recruiting and training the best Renewable Energy Advisors and installation people
- Solar Energy - Solar Tech - one of the most experienced and knowledgeable specialist solar installers in Sydney.
- Sustainability - Mother Earth News - online magazine about living wisely and sustainably, originating from USA
- Sustainability - Sustainability Victoria - links for Victorians to live a more sustainable life in every part of their day.
- Transport - Flexicar (Car Sharing) - for Sydney and Melbourne residents who would like to access a car without owning a car.
- Transport - Go Get car share - for Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney residents who would like to access a car without owning a car
- Transport - Greenfleet - provides practical ways for people, businesses and other organisations to prevent and minimise the greenhouse gases they produce.
- Transport - Grown Fuel Biodiesel - a book on how to make Biodiesel Fuel
- Transport - The Car Pool - an online way to link up with other people going to the same event and car pool with them
- Water - Australian Government Ratings for Water - water efficiency rating and labelling standards
- Water - Green Plumbers in Australia -how to find Green Plumbers, Green Plumbing Shop, how to become a Green Painter, Consumer Advice
- Water - How to have a Water Smart Home - Musuem Victoria information on water smart homes
- Water - Savewater - how to save water in and around your home/business/agriculture/garden, education, competitions and awards
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