Why might you consider building a container home in Western Australia? Well there are a number of reasons that might justify such a decison -

• Buy your container home in China & have it shipped over to Australia. Container homes fit perfectly onto modern transport ships & prices are lower in China
• Modularity of design make container homes perfectly extensible. Buy multiple containers as components and create a grand multi room home or a hotel
• Don't feel limited by the shape of the container. Consider creating an external 'look' with shade sails or lattice for instance
• Container homes can come preconfigured with wiring, plumbing, insulation & interior fittings

Build your future container home & beat the 'debt slave' mindset.

The picture shows a barren, man made port facility built up against the coastline about 20km?s north of Geraldton. Ultimately, this $4 billion port & rail facility will completely transform the region into an industrial and transportation hub built to service the export of iron ore and other raw materials from the mid west.

The requirement for power and water to drive the expansion of industry and transportation in the Oakajee precinct will result in the development of some significant solar & wind energy sources as well as more desalination plants. The SKA Project in the same region will only add to energy demands and also ensure that some significant continental bandwidth (for transporting digital data from the SKA Radio telescope) becomes available in the region.

The development is expected to drive significant human resourcing requirements in the area with 4000 direct jobs to be created annually and a potential population expected to top 100,000, up from the existing 30,000 in Geraldton. From a long term sustainability point of view, Geraldton is in the enviable position of having plenty of space for building housing to house this future population but will still need to develop the requisite community infrastructure.

Probably, like Perth, Geraldton will be able to use resources as a springboard to developing education as a ?next step? industry. Certainly the industrial development and SKA Project will bring plenty of scientists and engineers into the region.

Ultimately, if all the pieces fall into place, Oakajee will shift the centre of Western Australia's economic gravity further north.

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Buckminster Fuller's Critical Path

The latest Centralist government tactic to attempt to control WA mineral wealth via way of a super profits rent tax has stoked the fires of secession.

Secession for WA could take a number of forms as pressure mounts from multiple points to fight the federal government. Kevin Rudd came to power believing that society?s ills can be solved from the centre via a communist model rather from the edges via a capitalist model. History is replete with examples of failed centralist moves to cater to the needs of the population.

Centralists believe they have the solution and can deploy resources for the masses most effectively. The reality is that capitalism is the ultimate evolutionary search engine and no central government could ever compete with the efficiency, dedication or imagination of capitalists.

The best role a government can play is to reduce its? functions to an absolute necessity and provide a level playing field for capitalists to go about their business. That means ensuring property rights, and ensuring universal access to education and health.

European researchers have used
immersive virtual reality in the
first experiment to show that body
ownership can be transferred to a
virtual body. A first-person
perspective of a life-sized virtual
human female body that appears to
substitute the male subjects' own
bodies was sufficient to generate a
body transfer illusion. Read on

Comrade Rudd has once again determined that the central government is more effective at reallocating wealth than the marketplace and is looking at taxing super profits from the mining industry. Super profits are defined as profits above the long term bond yield.

Unfortunately what Rudd never counted on was the fact that small miners are always a few dollars away from not being able to fund their mining ventures. A rent tax is a death knell to many potential projects simply because the tax raises the cost of capital.

Additionally, many of the shares of the mining companies are ultimately owned by every day Australian via their Superannuation portfolios.

Perth is going to get a series of solar city initiatives with the first being the installation of 162,000 solar panels that will generate 73,000 kilowatts hours per year at The Central Institute of Technology in Northbridge.

One of the benefits of the installation is that it will be used to train technicians in how to install PV panels to the main grid.
Ultimately there will be five solar energy installation projects which will produce a combined output of 860,000 kilowatt hours of power per annum. The other projects are slated for Perth Zoo, Perth Arena, Kings Park and the Midland Railway Workshop.

The cost of the project is estimated to be worth $85 million over 5 years.

The Gravity Discovery Centre near Gingin in Western Australia is set to close due to government funding cuts. This is most unfortunate as it does not bode well for the significance placed on science & technology by the state government.

Carbon lifestyle requirements are costly and becoming increasingly so. Take account of what your costs are -

• Heating & cooling
• Housing
• Food & Drink
• Transport
• Health

While -

Digital lifestyle requirements are falling in price

• Telecommunications
• Finance
• Digital entertainment

There are serious financial benefits in transitioning to a digital lifestyle.