by Karen | May 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
I’m a bike riding nerd. I love working out new and different ways to get around on my bike, I love seeing full visitor bike parking outside the supermarket and I love looking at sustainability projects to see how they’ve provided great facilities for...
by Karen | Jun 26, 2022 | GreenStar, Transport
I’m a member of the Yarra Active Transport Advisory Committee and we’ve recently provided advice on the draft Transport Strategy. Then my mother had her bike stolen from the “secure” bicycle parking at her apartment building and my son...
by Karen | Jun 21, 2019 | GreenStar, Transport
This morning I went to a site visit at the new Country Road store in Chadstone. I’m working on a volume certification process and the store is the first one targeting a 5 star Green Star Interiors. When I set up the meeting, I worked out that I could get there...
by Karen | Sep 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
Last week I got one of those phone calls…”How quickly can you do a JV3 model?” Yep, no one had checked that the windows complied with the NCC and now they needed a building permit – today! I was pretty blunt and told them that I needed 2 weeks,...
by Karen | Jun 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
We’ve all heard about the “recycling crisis” but I haven’t heard much more about how it affects the projects we’re working on. So this article in The Age today is a bit of a prompt to find out more. “Since C & D Recycling opened...
by Karen | Jun 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
I’ve had a food waste system at home for the past 20 years. I don’t call it composting because my focus isn’t about making a beautiful fertilising system for a beautiful permaculture garden, it’s just about reducing what I’m sending to...
by Karen | Jun 7, 2018 | GreenStar
Each time I get a new Green Star project I look at the climate adaptation credit and think about doing it myself. How hard could it be? The Green Star submission guideline has a good instructions on what’s required and all the reference documents are pretty...
by Karen | Feb 22, 2018 | accountability, GreenStar
This morning I read an article in The Conversation that included the word “Green Star” (including the quotes!) It’s badly written AND wrong and I made a comment that I realised would be worth keeping here: Conflating what’s happening in the...
by Karen | Nov 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
Today i got a lovely call from Sam at Ecoresults to ask if i was happy for him to put my name forward for a new project – yes! And while we were chatting, he mentioned that my website was down. I thought it weird because I usually check my website about once a...
by Karen | Jan 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
A few years ago, when I was still at WSP Built Ecology, I did a presentation at Green Cities. It was called “Getting our shit together – A history of human sanitation and how it might apply to building design in the future” It was fun, it tapped...
