1. Ecological Sustainability & the Ballarat Structure Plan
(Publications/Visioning)

... as possible: Renewable energy - diverse systems - wind, solar, geothermal, biomass Water - rainwater, grey water, recycled Food production - close to points of consumption Community services ...

2. The EBD Publication
(Publications/Visioning)

... experimental ‘city within a city’, with design work across a range of scales from the urban to the domestic that are able to support a diverse, low consumption, highly productive and truly sustainable ...

3. Distributed Systems: A design model for sustainble and resilient infrastructure
(Publications/Briefing Notes)

... as an alternative design model. We suggest this model exists in the natural environment and in production and consumption systems that have already begun adapting to conditions of increased uncertainty, ...

4. Distributed Systems: A design model for sustainable and resilient infrastructure
(Distributed Systems/Briefing Notes and Publications)

... as an alternative design model. We suggest this model exists in the natural environment and in production and consumption systems that have already begun adapting to conditions of increased uncertainty, ...

5. Gama-dji Gurr: the Seed
(EBD Design Studios/Urban Design)

... numerous interesting ideas including the bike highway underneath Citylink, visible water technology and water consumption meters. There are urban agriculture towers next to Citylink on the other side of ...

6. Breezeway
(EBD Design Studios/HabItat)

A passive energy clothes-dryer for shared living spaces. A design to eliminate the clothes dryer - one of the top energy users in the household - and therefore provide the people ...

7. Broadmeadows 2032: Workshop
(Visions/Design Workshops)

... Lifestyles, a project developed as part of the Task Force on Sustainable Lifestyles, within the United Nations 10 Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (usually called ...

8. EBD Milk
(EBD Design Studios/Systems & Services)

A milk distribution hub for the EBD. This system proposes a local delivery system for milk in the EBD. The system makes the most of the railway by transporting milk in bulk. The milk ...

9. Circular
(EBD Design Studios/Systems & Services)

Most of the $53 billion worth of food wasted every year in Australia is still edible.  Circular is a food Distribution System intended to provide services of delivering fresh, sustainable ...

10. Nature's Strips
(EBD Design Studios/Systems & Services)

... responsibilities are allocated to users based on their individual strengths and abilities. As a result, users are involved in the system well before the final stage of consumption. Even at the simplest ...

11. 2040 City: Design Speculation
(News/General)

... for resilient life-styles (in the face of new environmental conditions) and the end of the era of cheap oil. The ‘short-distances’ refers to the measure of the distance between production and consumption ...

12. Office Farm
(EBD Design Studios/Architecture)

... food production part of the building is tended by a gardener but office workers are also involved in the production environment, increasing awareness of food production and consumption.   Designer: ...

13. SmartCard
(EBD Design Studios/Visual Communications)

Indicators and incentives for tracking personal consumption of shared resources. Environmental initiatives are rewarded with a rewards-card: if you use less energy than your 'suggested' ...

14. Wear Woolly Socks
(EBD Design Studios/Visual Communications)

rethink energy consumption rethink community This project is the branding for Wear Woolly Socks, an active not-for-profit organisation - a version, perhaps, of the next generation ...

15. EBD: Overarching Characteristics
(EBD/The EBD Site)

... incubator helps translate the EBD’s innovative knowledge production into new enterprises, new product and services. ___________ a model of slow consumption lifestyle: greenhouse gas reductions of 80% ...

16. Waste Report
(EBD/EBD Newsletter)

... is best described as ‘minimalist’.  Waste that is not processed on site is transported (via tram / train)  to the central Melbourne recycling and bio-gas facility.  Super-Low consumption initiatives have ...

17. Schools and TAFE
(EBD/EBD Newsletter)

... food production, low consumption water technology systems, EBD DIY media production, electronics hacking, recycling and repair, and garment re-working. Whilst many of our students participate in the courses ...

18. Sustainable New Industry
(EBD/EBD Newsletter)

... often questioned. Yet, over time, it has been the real success of sustainable, slow consumption, low carbon businesses which has been at the centre of public attention on the district. These businesses ...

19. EBD: Melbourne's Ecological Business District
(EBD/EBD Newsletter)

... around 2000 people travel to the area for work), the evolution of the old site is easily forgotten. What is always apparent is the open lifestyle and the wellbeing that has emerged from slow-consumption ...

20. Civic Report: Open Space
(EBD/EBD Newsletter)

... moving vehicles. As community passageways, they host a range of functional, recreational and leisure activities. >> Civic Report: Slow Consumption  ...