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In an age when people rarely know their neighbours, a ‘buy nothing’ group is one way to acquaint yourself with those living on your streetWe all have things we don’t need. For Canberra resident Zoe Bowman, it is melon ballers.“Someone asked for a melon baller to make some melon balls for a kid’s party, and I looked in the drawer and I had three,”...

A Sydney council has been criticised for inspecting recycling bins and tagging those that don’t comply with rulesAn eastern Sydney council has come under fire for a program in which staff inspect residents’ garbage bins and leave notes with information on how they can better recycle.In Australia, where all household recycling is collected in one bin, contamination is a huge problem, when a few...

‘They’re so damn reliable’, says veteran mechanic Craig Salmon. In the second Green Recovery feature, we look at what’s stopping Australia from embracing EVsCraig Salmon rattles off the benefits of electric cars with the swagger of a veteran car mechanic and the zeal of someone who is watching a profound historic change play out on his workshop floor. Related: This builder used to be...

Testing facility for zero-emissions four-passenger electric aircraft expected to be built in Narromine within the yearThe New South Wales government has awarded almost $1m from a regional grants fund to a company developing what deputy premier John Barilaro describes as an electric flying car.Andrew Moore, the chief executive of start-up AMSL Aero, says the company is building what is better described as an electric...