Resources
Are you looking for more information and resources to make your lifestyle or business more sustainable?
We’ve collated these resources for each of the Ways to Switch to help you learn more!
- BUILDINGS
- BUSINESS
- ENERGY
- ETHICAL INVESTMENT
- How to draught proof your home?
- How to improve insulation with window coverings?
- Insulation buyers guide
- NatHERS
- NABERS
- Your Home: Guide to Environmentally Sustainable Homes
- Josh’s House (10 star home)
- Choosing efficient household appliances
- Energy rating
- [VIDEO] How do you switch to LED lighting?
- Guide to heat pumps
- [VIDEO] How to draught-proof your home?
- How to switch from gas?
- Window glazing
- Energy use in office buildings
- Reduce lighting costs in your business
- Lighting standards Australia & New Zealand
Switch Your Thinking Guides & Factsheets
- Sustainable business practices
- Small Scale Renewable Energy Scheme
- WWF Green Office Programme
- Carbon neutrality for businesses
- Energy Savings Quick Guide for Small Businesses
- Business Council of Sustainable Development Australia
- Greenfinder
- Australian Government Business Sustainability Checklist
- What small businesses need to know about sustainability reporting requirements
Switch Your Thinking Guides & Factsheets
- FOOD
- TRANSPORT
- WASTE
- WATER
- Three companies supporting sustainable commuting
- How to help your staff commute sustainably
- How to encourage sustainable commuting in the workplace
- How to make your commute more sustainable
- Save on your commute
- Seven ways to encourage sustainable commuting in the workplace
- Australian Government Transport & Infrastructure Sector Net Zero Plan
Switch Your Thinking Guides & Factsheets
- Reducing household waste
- Waste management problems in Australia and innovative implementations
- E-waste recycling
- Recycling behaviours report
- Zero Waste Store
- Enviro House
- A beginner’s guide to composting
- [VIDEO] Garden Australia’s Composting with Costa
- [VIDEO] Worm composting 101
- Waste Sorted
- Containers for Change WA
- Food waste facts
Switch Your Thinking Guides & Factsheets
- How to be waterwise factsheet
- Perth’s Waterwise Action Plan
- Water Forever: Water Corporation 50 Year Plan
- What is desalination and how does it work?
- Water sensitive urban design
- Stormwater Management Manual for Western Australia
- Be groundwater wise
- Rainwater collection and storage information from World Health Organisation
- [VIDEO] Urban Water Guide – Building Sustainable & Resilient Cities
- [VIDEO] 9 Years at the CRC for Water Sensitive Cities
- Water recycling WA
- Code of Practice for Reuse of Greywater in WA
- AUSTRALIA'S NET ZERO PLANS
- EMISSIONS CALCULATORS
- GARDENING & URBAN GREENING
- CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Australia’s Net Zero Plan 2025
Australia’s Sector Specific Plans
Emissions Calculators
Gardening & Urban Greening
- How to make a wicking garden bed
- Gardening Australia
- Benefits of Greening Urban Areas Fact Sheet
- Urban Greening Fact Sheet
- Trees: The forgotten heroes for our health
- Greening cities can prevent mental illness
- Climate change impacts on urban heat
- 7 Steps to Creating a Successful Native Verge in Perth WA
- How to Make a Simple Rain Garden to Solve Stormwater Problems
- Landscaping and garden design
Resources cited in Smarter Ways to Waste Less: A Waste Hierarchy Guide
- Waste Authority WA — Annual Report 2024–25
Cited for: In 2023–24, WA recycled 65% of waste but 2.5 million tonnes still went to landfill. - UNDP (2024) — Emissions Gap Report 2024
Cited for: The way we make and use products is responsible for around 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions. - Circularity Gap Report 2023 — Circle Economy Cited for: Shifting to a circular economy could cut emissions by up to 40% by 2050.
- WA Waste Authority — Waste Hierarchy Graphic
Cited as the source of the waste hierarchy diagram used in the guide. - WA Reuse Impact Study Executive Report 2026
Cited for: Reuse generates 62 times more jobs than recycling per tonne in WA. - WA Waste Authority / Department of Environment and Conservation
Cited for: Making glass from recycled material saves 74% of the energy needed to produce new glass. - WA Waste Strategy 2030
Cited for: The WA Government’s goal to cut landfill to just 15% of total waste by 2030.
Resources cited in The Circular Economy Guide
- Ellen MacArthur Foundation — Completing the Picture: How the Circular Economy Tackles Climate Change (2019)
Cited for: approximately 45% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from producing materials, products, food, and land use. - IPCC — Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change (AR6, Working Group III)
Cited for: the remaining 55% of emissions from energy production, transport, industrial processes, and agriculture. - Climate Change Tracker — Australia’s Progress and Recent Impact
Cited for: Australia’s annual per capita emissions of 23.3 tonnes, rated extremely high globally. - WA Government Media Statement — Renewable Energy Generation Delivers a Spring Record on SWIS (December 2025)
Cited for: more than 55% of electricity on WA’s South West Interconnected System came from renewable sources in late 2025.
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