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- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeNov 5th 2010 edited
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^^^^
Anyone like to get hold of some beautiful red clinker bricks.
^^^
Greenhaus was right about that site shed. ............but hey, Some great buildings leak but not all buildings that leak are great.
- CommentAuthorgreenhaus
- CommentTimeNov 6th 2010
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^ Mofos.
- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeNov 6th 2010 edited
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Its not pretty - there is a 44 gallon drum in the back.

Inside is a rotting corpse.

Given it would fit in just about anywhere in marxico - What would you park it in front of?
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeNov 6th 2010 edited
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Maybe here. http://unhappyhipsters.com/page/6
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeNov 11th 2010
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Gone.
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeNov 21st 2010
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"These walls are wondrous. Destiny destroyed them.
The courtyards and battlements are smashed. The work of the giants is crumbling."

from "The Ruin" The Exeter Book
- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeNov 22nd 2010 edited
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- shagged out baby boomer detritus. crush the rubbish, its taking up valuable space.
...................- face it bruno, marxico's wheels fell off a long time back.
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeNov 23rd 2010 edited
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- CommentAuthorgreenhaus
- CommentTimeNov 23rd 2010
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Its a nice place.
Enlightenment suburb with Irish bailout refugee overlay.
Plenty of cars no architecture.
- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeNov 23rd 2010
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VSGA advises marxican dictator to expand his power base. Green wedges will be relocated to inner city roof tops.
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeNov 23rd 2010 edited
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The abolition of stamp duty for first home buyers in regional areas, (called the country when I grew up there) proposed by Labour looks set to inadvertently create a green ring just inside the urban growth boundary surrounded by a "regional" development doughnut.

Read the references and marvel.

http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/labor-eases-stamp-duty-for-4000-buyers-20101121-182dh.html

http://www.theage.com.au/business/property/melbourne-jumps-its-boundary-20101121-182kb.html
- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeNov 23rd 2010 edited
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green ring or yellow bruno? -

- the black heart is under stress from invasive but impotent green algae bloom.
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeNov 24th 2010
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It hardly matters info. Green, yellow, black...........who cares?

Some guy from The Club of Rome introduced me to this graph at the RAIA Sunbury Convention in 1972 and I'd say we are about where the blue and purple lines cross for the first time now.

The sad truth is there's not much you, me or green(haus)building council can do about it.

Ava Gardner may have been right.
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeNov 24th 2010
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...and the graph
- CommentAuthorgreenhaus
- CommentTimeNov 24th 2010 edited
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^ the inane farce graph.

Measuring the march of Adam Band-aid (failed lawyer/spouse of former Gillhard staffer), as he is fired from a cannon and parachuted back into his own electorate - who equipped with the facts de-support the first private members bill of the first environmental party elected to the lower house?

http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/jacktheinsider/index.php/theaustralian/co
- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeNov 24th 2010
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Charlie Brown wanted it to be a bill to regulate unrecycled toilet paper.
- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeNov 24th 2010
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back on topic.
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeNov 24th 2010
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^^

Why stop at green gay marriage?
- CommentAuthorgreenhaus
- CommentTimeNov 25th 2010
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^^Sandown?
- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeDec 12th 2010 edited
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The ship deserting the rats?
- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeDec 12th 2010 edited
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Signage on Dorcas Street
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeDec 12th 2010
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Could it be preparation for Big Ted & Mr Guy's Urban Renewal Authority? Retro planning policy looks set to be the Coalition way.
- CommentAuthorgreenhaus
- CommentTimeDec 14th 2010
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Directions to a "safer" place, when the BAL 40 apartment tower in inner city melbourne burns down during a wildfire triggered by a melted tram on the above ground tracks.
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeDec 14th 2010 edited
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There's no substitute for saying it with bricks. It's the Australian way.
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeApr 8th 2011
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Could it be that a Frank Gehry Limited Edition Mazda 6 is on the streets.
Contrary to Gehry's usual approach it looks perfectly normal from the front and the distortion is concentrated at the rear.
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeMay 16th 2011
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A few weeks ago I enjoyed the community celebration as the Hepburn Wind turbines were intalled at Leonards Hill. Even cowboys are part of this community. I have a 12000th share, about 450mm2. Theoretically this offsets about a third of my electricity consumption in Kew.
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeMay 16th 2011
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On Saturday I took a drive up to Waubra to listen to the turbines. 129 turbines around a small rural town. Some people are very distressed by the sound, or is it just their perception of the sound? It's an interesting question, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for the moment.
Is a windfarm an industrial landscape?
Are we still stripmining rural amenity for urban gain?
It's not easy being Green.
Here's the view from the road.
- CommentAuthorpeter
- CommentTimeMay 23rd 2011
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They make a bit of noise, but perhaps it needs to be seen in comparison to the dirty coal stations in the Latrobe Valley. They are surely worse blots on the landscape, and the smoke plumes and pollution are worse than humming rotors. Unless you live next to them. I guess the coal stations and power lines in the Latrobe become less ugly to locals as they provide them employment, and have become part of the valley's identity.

How did you buy a share of a wind turbine?

PS I have demoted the forum link on the front page of butterpaper due to lack of activity. If activity increases it'll go back on. I realise that's a bit chicken and egg, but there hadn't been a post in here for so long I wondered if it had died. Still, checking the stats, there are a lot of readers in here, even if they aren't posting.
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeMay 23rd 2011 edited
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Buy your wind farm shares here
http://hepburnwind.com.au/ or http://www.futureenergy.com.au/

Here at the BTI we have $1000 invested in the Hepburn Wind community wind farm co-operative and have just had Origin Energy's photovoltaics installed on our roof. On the back of an envelope this offsets our LaTrobe Valley brown coal electricity consumption.

Still need the transmission lines though for the odd moment when the sun isn't shining and we need power from the windfarm, or we have an excess of photovoltaic to feed into the grid, or when the sun isn't shining and the wind has stopped too.