The Home Front - 45 minute documentary - trailer

While politicians clash noisily over global warming and how to fight it, millions are trying modestly to cut their energy use, to be a small part of a big solution.

But their efforts to save energy at home are being hampered by vested interests and a bewildering variety of rules and rebates, local, state and federal.

Households make 20 per cent of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions. Experts say household emissions could be cut by close to a third. Their prescription is a cocktail of moderate reforms that would change the way Australians build their homes, heat them, cool them and light them, and a tougher approach to power-guzzling products.

If there is a single instrument that could improve the energy efficiency of new houses, it is Australia's building code, which sets minimum required standards for the building industry.

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Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

June 2007

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[saintfletcher]

Also, black asphalt roadways needs to be colour changed to a lighter colour like terracotta. Black asphalt radiates so much heat in an area in the summer, the urban environment is unduly hot from radiating heat. +TSt+

[saintfletcher]

NSW should follow Victoria in 5* standard. We have more sun in NSW. We could easily have a solar thermal power station on crown land west of Moree, as proposed by the Sydney Deputy Lord Mayor, Chris Harris. With new solar energy technology, paving surfaces can have solar panels. Footpaths and light roadways could be solar panels. How many surfaces could be generating energy within the City? Blessings +++ The Saint +++