• Carbon Credits are the main strategy used by the Australian government to penalise the biggest carbon emitters- namely the fossil-fuel companies mining and using coal and gas (like Santos and Woodside)-  and make them pay for not reducing their emissions! 
• Mining and production companies and projects already operating and those in planning that are unable - or unwilling- to meet their emission levels established by the government have to buy 'green' Carbon Credits to offset the emissions they produce.

GOOD NEWS!

* 'Rewiring Australia' - independent not-for-profit organisation headed by Dr Saul Griffith that aims to 'electrify everything with renewable energy' has just released a proposal for a no-cost installation of rooftop solar energy systems and storage batteries for 11 million households owned and rented in Australia!  [see Rewiring Australia/EELS for video and details]

* EELS stands for 'Electrify Everything Loans Scheme'

* In brief the EELS proposal to Federal government works like this:

*Are you looking to purchase an EV car"  IF SO, HERE'S GREAT NEWS!!

* 'We are living in a sea of microplastics!     Microplastics are in our food, our drinks, our oceans, our homes AND US!!

* This is the increasingly serious finding of latest research.  Microplastics have been found in the Arctic, in the deepest ocean trenches, in land and sea animals, fish and birds  - it is estimated there 14 million tonnes of microplastic on our oceans floors! - mainly from decomposing plastic bags and containers thrown mindlessly into the seas, lakes, rivers and oceans of the world!

Recent research into household dust, petrochemically produced plastics and petrol and oil driven transport reveals more reasons why we need to stop mining and using fossil fuels and quickly convert to renewably generated electricity. Doing this will make both us and our Earth and its natural environments healthier!   Here are some of the reasons!

* 'WHATS IN YOUR HOUSEHOLD DUST??': THE TOXIC CONTAMINANTS INSIDE OUR HOMES!' 

* Do you live in Gordon, Turramurra, St Ives - indeed  anywhere in Ku-ring-gai??

* Interested in installing a solar energy system on your roof?  Interested in finding out more about how to do it and the money you can save?       IF SO, THEN MAYBE THESE ARE THE EVENTS YOU ARE LOOKING FOR!

* Australia's Clean Energy Council last week announced figures for the amount of electric power provided to the national electricity grid from household  rooftop solar generation! 

* Results demonstrate the rapidly increasing role that household rooftop solar is playing in powering Australia!

* There are now more than 3 million of Australia's 11 million households with rooftop solar panels! The large majority of these are houses due to the continuing difficulties of installing rooftop solar on apartment buildings!

* Premier of NSW, Chris Minns, has not followed A.C.T. or Victoria in a state-wide banning of gas connections BUT local innovative Councils are using  their Development Control Plans [DCPs] to ban new gas connections to households/apartments and other buildings!

* Climate change action group 350.org are working directly with local councils to advise and support them in achieving the bans.

* Yesterday I had my 20,000 Kilometre service on my MG ZV Electric car! - with a very, very pleasant surprise!!

* The cost of the entire service -  $280.00 !!

* That's a huge difference to the $400/500/600.00.00  payment for services to my petrol vehicle - even my hybrid petrol/electric car!

*  Just another reason for being so happy about choosing to go electric!!

* AND DON"T BELIEVE A WORD OF WHAT WAS SAID ON ABC TV ON MONDAY NIGHT ABOUT HOW FEW SECOND-HAND ELECTRIC CARS THERE ARE FOR SALE!!