Greenstyle - Your Useless Pool into a Beautiful Pond

Peter Clarke, from the free community service, 'Greenstyle', explains how to turn your expensive, unused, work intensive, energy consuming backyard pool into an oasis for flora and fauna. Cost??? Absolutely nothing. You actually save 100s of dollars on your power bill. Just switch the damn thing off. Peter Clarke explains the rest.
Greenstyle thanks Channel 7 Australia and "better Homes and Gardens' for permission to show this short segment from their show. If you live in Sydney, Australia in Ku-ring-gai, Hornsby or Willoughby you are eligible for the free holistic service provided by Greenstyle. Advice and help in solving a huge range of problems and needs in regard to sustainability and biodiversity. In other words, things like....Solar Power, Water Tanks, Energy saving strategies, saving waterways and native plants and animals etc, etc. Go to 'greenstyle.org.au' for more information.

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[OverSoulMatrix33]

greenhouse gases.?? wow theres, one born every minute..

[BrSpiritus]

This is an oversimplification. Cost is nothing, really? I suppose all those plants in the pond are free? And it needs a waterfall if not the water stagnates and STINKS. Granted waterfall pumps are less amps than a 240v pool motor but still uses electricity. I've been spending the last year converting the pool into a pond and now it's just about ready for fish. Now, the upsides.... I like the wildlife, the frogs and toads and dragonflies.

[Alina674]

He's right, notice what he mentions about the baby boomers at 1:28.

[TheVishveshwara]

Ah, the greens wanting to take another amenity in the name of the "environment." What a surprise. If you don't want the responsibility of taking care of a pool, don't buy a house with one. You'll be happier without the extra work. But then, ponds require maintenance, filtration, and electricity, too--it's like an aquarium outdoors. I love ponds as much as the next guy, but when it's 118 degrees out and 5% humidity, I'll take my swimming pool over a pond, thanks.

[1972landcruiser]

now I l

know what todo with that nasty eyesore inmy backyard

[kingdomofwitches]

@FiestyCat86 you are right ,you are talking about a garden pond with pond filter ie a maintained pond.but here they are talking about a pond that is not maintained or least maintained.filled with wild life (sounds great but what are its contents toads,worms, dense clusters of algae and dead plant leaves).some thing natural rather artificially maintained.frogs screams during mating season,smells bad because of rotten leaves, green water because of algae.these are some disadvantages .

[FiestyCat86]

@kingdomofwitches you keep a filter and its lined so smelly bacteria doesn't have a chance to go. If you keep it clean it doesn't get nasty. Even a fish pond won't stink if you keep it clean.

[kingdomofwitches]

history is repeating itself.50 yrs ago people changes ponds to pools ,now they are changing pools to ponds.no body is talking about the smell from the pond water.

[dontib0r]

the papyrus are beautiful