Design for place web site accompanies Your home. It consists of three energy efficient designs, created by architects, with specifications for each Australian capital city, plus Cairns. The Alternative Technology Association, branded as Renew Australia, was founded in 1980. It engages in public advocacy for sustainability, sponsors events and publishes a number of resources. These publications include Sanctuary: modern green homes A quarterly publication that illustrates innovative sustainable house designs Australia wide Renew: technology for a sustainable future is a quarterly publication that introduces new sustainable technologies. Sunulator is an online feasibility calculator for grid connected rooftop solar panels Tankulator is an online calculator for making decisions on rainwater harvesting and assessing the efficiency of current water tanks The Green Rebuild Toolkit was developed in the aftermath of the 2019/2020 catastrophic forest fires, to assist the public and Renew members who lost their often owner built homes, to rebuild or renovate for greater fire resilience. Sustainable House Day is an annual, largely online event sponsored by Renew Australia, in which members conduct tours of their sustainable homes. Renew sponsors occasional "Speed date a sustainability expert" events to allow home builders and renovators to have quick meetings with a range of architects and builders with sustainability interests and experience, to review their designs. Green: design, architecture, landscape, travel is a quarterly lifestyle magazine, which includes articles on sustainable houses. Forms of housing A favoured traditional housing form is the Queenslander. They are sustainable in that they are built of wood, an arguably renewable resource. Ventilation is excellent, especially in houses with hipped and vented rooves, which allow convective cooling, as well as cross ventilation. They have little thermal mass and are cold in Winter at the southern end of their range. Lighting can be a problem if verandas are encircling, but a north facing veranda on a sunny Winter's morning can be a delightful outdoor living space. Coober Pedy dug outs are another vernacular Australian housing form. They meet the criteria of sustainability by having an even year round temperature, despite extreme outside seasonal and daily fluctuations. Lighting is provided by windows, skylights and doors into hillsides, and ventilation by shafts. We have a number of believers in off-grid sustainable houses, some of whom are survivalists Tiny houses have a certain following. They are a commitment to minimalism is possessions and number of visitors and inhabitants, but sustainable in their small