Jason Lange
Water Cycle Team Leader - currently on sabbatical , Townsville City Council
- Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Canada
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Re: Case Studies/Success Stories Reducing Lawns
2013-04-25 17:06:27 UTC
Nancy,
In the process of testing lawn varieties in Townsville, Australia. Some interesting results thus far I would be happy to elaborate on, looking into:
- green waste generation
- fertilizer requirement
- carbon sequestration potential
- water requirements
- dormancy periods
- maintenance requirement
- dry season resilience
Species selection is critical and we are developing a barriers/benefits list for replacing water/maintenance hungry species (is the default as they grow fast - great for distributers) with more appropriate lawns.
Jas
Jason Lange
Water Cycle Team Leader - currently on sabbatical
Townsville City Council
Canada -
Re: Barriers/Benefits of Taking Shorter Showers
2013-04-25 16:59:01 UTC
Anna,
Recently moved to Halifax and think your thoughts align well with HRM's solar cities initiative, might be worth connecting with Solar Cities team if you haven't already. I am on sabbatical from a local government role in Australia - happy to share some of our behaviour shortlisting's for outdoor water use and home energy (synergy with shorter shower). Also some cool stuff around real time monitoring of water use utilizing hourly meter reads and an analytics platform provided by IBM. Happy to pass on some and connect if interested. [email protected]
Cheers
Jason
Jason Lange
Water Cycle Team Leader - currently on sabbatical
Townsville City Council
Canada -
Re: Effective Residential Irrigation Programs
2013-03-19 11:43:29 UTC
Good afternoon Ashlee,
[email protected] or [email protected]
Our local government (Townsville, Australia) and research partners have recently completed behaviour shortlisting and a number of water conservation pilots in our home town with promising results.
Currently working with IBM to combine real time water sensing, advanced data analytics and cognitive psychology to reduce outdoor water use.
Happy to share and elaborate via email.
Cheers,
Jason Lange
Jason Lange
Water Cycle Team Leader - currently on sabbatical
Townsville City Council
Canada
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