The sustainable technologies required to deal with the warming weather needed to go much further than the simplistic solutions listed in the title of this section.
As early as 2014 the community moved to free itself from the the electricity grid. The Bellingen Energy Committee raised funding to develop a local grid based on solar and hydro power.
By 2017 the development of electricity storage devices in each house allowed the rationalisation of the local grid. This new facility was based on the power router which could accept power from any source e.g. solar panels, local grid or from excess capacity of neighbours.
Collecting rainwater was supplemented by capturing excess water from rivers and streams in time of high rainfall and store in underground storage facilities - an approach used in India 1200 years ago.
Solar power is used to move water between storage facilities and creates electricity as a by product and stored at nearby power storage facilities.