Moreland Energy Foundation

Before: all the lights on, all the time“People come to work and they’re very proud of the way our depot looks and how we’re saving energy and helping the environment.”
Jim Todorovski,
Customer Service and Marketing Manager, Yarra Trams.

Yarra Trams had a vision to make its depots ‘green’ and four of the eight depots were selected to pilot the idea.
One of these was the Brunswick Depot
on Sydney Road, Brunswick.

Bottle King is a retail liquor store located in Pascoe Vale that took part in Zero Carbon Moreland's Fridge Timer Assessment Project. The project aims to reduce the energy use of retail and hospitality businesses easily and cheaply.

Bottle King has seven drinks fridges and a cool room. The store is open 7 days a week 9am-11pm Mon-Sat, and 10am-11pm Sun.

As part of the Drink Fridge Assessment Project, the Moreland Energy Foundation installed simple off-the-shelf plug in timers to the seven fridges. The timers turned the fridges off at 11.15pm and back on at 8.30am. We then monitored the temperatures and energy use of the fridges and the results showed significant savings.

A father or two, Jeremy McLeod is also the owner and lead architect at Breathe - a Brunswick-based sustainable architecture practice. Breathe recently won two Victorian Architecture Awards for small projects and sustainable design. In their architectural designs, Breathe explores low tech, low cost solutions creating buildings with lighter footprints. For houses, draught proofing solutions such as double glazing, and silicon seals around windows, are part of the designs from the outset. Designing houses with air locks means that occupants can choose when they want to keep heat in or when they want to ventilate the space. 

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Cantilever Interiors has joined Zero Carbon Moreland to make sure their actions were not just beneficial to them and their customers but, as partner Peter Tragardh-Daly puts it, “By joining ZCM we made sure we contributed to community action on climate change and helped to reflect community attitudes on what they want from local business.”

Charlie Wilde, Travis Dean and Peter Tragardh-Daly, three individual furniture designers and makers, each came to work out of the same design and manufacture studio warehouse in Brunswick, where they started collaborating on larger-scale projects. As a result of this collaboration, Cantilever Interiors was formed in April 2006.

Peter from Cantilever has always been environmentally aware and saw a gap in the market for environmentally friendly design and manufacture. Luckily Peter’s instincts were supported by customer demand for a “greener” product. Now Cantilever offers products that are well made and designed as well as being a green alternative.