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Electric Vehicles powering your devices, home or the grid
2025-10-17
Electric vehicles (EVs) can be charged at home using the relatively free power of rooftop solar. Many EV brands also have the ability to supply power to devices, specific home circuits or to the power grid.
Drip Irrigation: for Every Landscape & All Climates
2025-10-15
Drip Irrigation for Every Landscape and all Climates by Robert Kourik (2009) provides the basics as well as advanced concepts in drip irrigation design for domestic use. This library guide/review provides a description as well as a chapter by chapter summary of this indispensible handbook.
The Men’s Shed Movement
2025-10-12
The Men’s Shed Movement had humble beginnings in South Australia and Victoria in the mid to late 1990s. Thirty years later it is truly a global movement with associations beginning in Australia, the UK, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, the US and Denmark. Throughout its progress, Barry Golding has been researching the movement with the publication of the movement’s history and development in The Men’s Shed Movement: The Company of Men (2015). Then in 2021, Golding published further research in a second edited book: Shoulder to Shoulder: Broadening the Men’s Shed Movement.
A Gut Mood Solution
2025-10-04
New research for the treatment of bipolar disorder takes a fresh look at the relationship between mental health and the gut biome.
Xanthorrhoea semiplana ssp. semiplana
2025-09-28
Xanthorrhoea semiplana ssp. semiplana, commonly known as the Yacca or Tufted Grass-Tree, has a distribution mostly in southern South Australia including the southern Eyre peninsula, southern Mount Lofty region and the central south east of South Australia. There is some distribution in western Victoria along its border area.
Tetratheca pilosa ssp. pilosa
2025-09-27
Tetratheca pilosa ssp. pilosa, commonly known as Hairy Pink-Bells, is distributed in the southern Mount Lofty ranges in South Australia and sporadically in Victoria. Large distributions are in Tasmania.