Electrifying Bradfield

Participants individually, in pairs - with adults - first built their solar model cars from materials provided - helped by wonderful students from Mackellar Girls' High School and Jacquie Cleary (Sustainability Education Officer, KRG Council and David Smith, President, Electrifying Bradfield.They then raced them on the corflute track - with lots of fun and excitement!

Similar workshops can be provided FREE in any school in Ku-ring-gai LGA. 

Want your school to offer similar workshops for their students - for FREE!

• Energy experts are warning that Australia will not meet its 2030 emissions reduction target - at the same time the national government is expected to announce bolder targets for 2035!
• On assuming government after the landslide 2022 election Labor promised to reduce emissions by 43% compared to those of 2005.

ENERGY & STUFF.              Batteries and bottlenecks...

Apply for a Cool Seat

In 2024, two Ku-ring-gai communities—a 20-unit apartment block and a kindergarten—won ‘Cool Seat’ compost systems thanks to Ku-ring-gai Council’s ‘Net Zero’ Team, Electrifying Bradfield and sustainable designer Michael Mobbs. Now you have a chance to win one of four Cool Seats for your community.

Applications close 28th September 2025 at 5pm.

           AUSTRALIA’S IMPERATIVE! REVISITING A TAX ON CARBON!

*Pressure to include discussion on the re-introduction of a tax on carbon at the forthcoming Productivity Round Table is growing increasingly stronger.

*For the previous four months an 'ecological catastrophe' has been occurring along Adelaide's coastal beaches!

* Sharks, stingrays, fish, sea dragons, shellfish, cuttlefish, eels, razor clams are dying along South Australia's coastline: a great white shark on Henley Beach! 

*The ecological disaster is caused by a massive algal bloom of Karenia mikimotoi. Algal blooms reduce the oxygen levels in the water which suffocates animals with gills.

*The recent unanimous ruling by the 15 judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has very significant implications for the governments and decision-makers in Australia and other countries that are emitting significant amounts of Greenhouse gases through the mining and burning of fossil fuels at home - AND are exporting fossil fuels to other countries to burn! 

* Through July 2025, 19,592 solar batteries were installed in the 3 million Australian rooftops fitted with solar energy systems!

* This increases the total stored electricity battery capacity (not including that in the increasing number of EVs) by 344 MWhs (344,000 KWhs).

* From July 1st, 2025 households and businesses with rooftop solar systems installed or being installed can get around 30% (depending on size of battery installed) off the total cost of a battery.

AND HERE'S WHY!

This is the question addressed in a new book called Waste Wars: Dirty Deals, International Rivalries and the Scandalous Afterlife of Rubbish by Alexander Clapp (2025).

'The combined weight of everything made by humans now outweighs every living thing on Earth!' [ref: Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 2020]

Plastics weigh more than twice the weight of all marine and terrestrial animals: buildings and roads outweigh all trees & shrubs!