Green Technologies Aquaponics systemLiving well and healthily means having strong and robust systems for collecting, using and transforming water, energy and waste. Sometimes those systems can be environmental problems, and sometimes they work in hand with the environment. The technologies that let us deal with our water, waste and energy sustainably are called “green technologies” or sometimes “ecological systems”, using the best of current science and engineering plus the great and simple ideas of primitive skills in a whole-system approach to solve problems.

The Green Technology area at CERES works on a range of projects to do with water, waste and energy systems. Most of these are to support CERES site infrastructure or transport, always continuing to make CERES a truly sustainable organisation that walks its talk. All our projects are done as demonstrations or as research to learn what works, and can be seen on site or on guided tours. We are currently preparing a selection of fact sheets to make the projects and research results more accessible to people wanting to try these technologies for themselves.

The people in Green Technology are:
Stephen Mushin, Ecological Systems Designer and Green Technology Area Manager stephen@ceres.org.au

Current Projects

  • Aquaponics system
  • Smart Water not Mains Water rainwater distributed harvesting and reuse system
  • Energy system planning for Stage 2 and 3 of the Community Centre
  • Permapave filter testing and water quality assessment
  • Water Trail redevelopment

Recent Projects

  • Pervious Paving Carpark (research with RMIT) media release July 2008
  • Composting toilets renovation
  • Education centre rainwater and water-saving retrofit
  • Harding St Market Garden underground tank
  • Total Water Cycle connection of dams
  • Lee St Cafe Hub underground tank

Previous Projects

Fact Sheets
Water Fact sheet page 1 and page 2
(more coming soon)

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