We are pleased to oblige. Just click on the following link to download the slides in PDF format.

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We also will include below answers to frequently asked questions as they arise:

1. How do you read a Smart Meter? Click here to view Western Power's on-line guide.

The goal is still to help 200,000 West Australians take simple steps within their homes, workplaces and schools to become more sustainable during 2010.

There is now an incredible array of schools and organisations participating in Days of Change. If you would like your organisation, your school or your kids' or grandkids' school to participate then make sure you contact us and we can tell you how easy this is.

One of our goals is to continue to support you in fulfilling your pledges. We will keep you updated as we hear about anything that we believe will be relevant to you in fulfilling your pledges (for example the recent announcement of a solar PV feed-in tariff).

Thanks to your support, we will now be talking with organisations in other states about running Days of Change there during 2011.

And stay tuned for some very exciting news, which we hope to bring to you during July.

Days of Change would not be possible without the support of some amazing people and organisations.

Thanks to Channel 7, The West Australian, GWN, 94.5 and The Quokka for their extraordinary level of support in promoting Days of Change. There were so many people in those organisations who contributed to the success of the program, however we really need to say special thanks to Angela Nutton, Natalia Cooper, Nicola Bedwood, Fred Botica, Simon Hart and Rob Shearwood.

Thanks also to Sungrid. As our Vision Partner, Sungrid shares our vision of a world where people everywhere are living sustainably. Sungrid's support of Days of Change was pivotal and we gratefully acknowledge Phil Livingston, Howard Buckley, and Nicola Holgate for their outstanding support and efforts.

And thanks to our many other partners who are right behind the move to a more sustainable future and so took a risk and supported a program that had never been run before on this scale.

Thanks also to our many Champions who were all willing to stand up and say "we're changing, what about you?" and whose support was crucial to the success of the program.

And lastly thank you for your support of Days of Change and for your commitment to do something about creating a better world for our kids and grandkids to inherit.

By the end of May, more than 38,000 West Australians were participating in Days of Change and had pledged to make simple changes to help create a brighter future for people everywhere.

This makes Days of Change the largest on-line sustainability program ever seen and sends a clear message to kids everywhere that we care about their future and shows our community leaders that we support change

However this is only the beginning of the journey.

Now is the time to be thinking about how you are going to fulfil your pledges. Don't forget that clicking on the "more" button next to each of your pledges will give you access to support information that will help you fulfil your pledges.

Also, the goal is still 200,000 West Australians participating in the program by the end of 2010so don't forget to invite your friends to get on board too.

On the one hand, holding on to these dinosaur phones (and not throwing them into landfill) saves the environment from some serious non biodegradable nasties. Your average hand phone contains a cocktail of toxic ingredients such as lead, arsenic, cadmium, beryllium and mercury.

On the flipside, letting your unwanted mobile sit around isn't doing the planet much good either. The answer here is to recycle.

According to our friends at MobileMuster, more than 90% of the materials in a mobile (batteries, circuit boards, plastic housings and metal) can be recovered and used as raw materials for new products. This kind of scrap salvaging not only saves our natural resources but also drastically cuts down energy needed for mining.

At iiNet, it's no secret that they love technology and cool gadgets. Starting this month, iiNet staff are rounding up retired handsets and jumping on board MobileMuster, ticking off one of their daysofchange.org workplace pledges.

If you have one or more old mobile phones lying around, do the recycling thing and join the muster. Find a MobileMuster depot in your neighbourhood and hand 'em over.

A dream to create a vast global online community of people working together to bring about and inspire real change in homes, workplaces and schools across the globe that would ensure children and future generations everywhere will inherit a better and cleaner world than we have now.

The key to success of this dream was that people who had already joined and seen the many benefits, the urgency for change and the potential of this program, would then go on a invite their friends and family to get involved.

Since the start of May more than 25,000 West Australians have joined this community and if you check out the map of your suburb (see article below) you will see that the community is growing. But we aren't there yet. In fact by the end of May we need to more than double the number of people involved.

While we have already had an incredible amount of support, we urgently need your help, with just 10 days left in May, to keep the dream alive. All you need to do is invite at least 3 people to join Days of Change today. If you've already invited your friends, a gentle reminder may be what they need to get on board.

Let's show the world what WA can do!

Kind regards,

Julian and Gary Co-Founders Days of Change

With a brilliant new feature you can now load up your Address Book from Outlook, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo or Safari and select which of your contacts you would like to invite to join you on daysofchange.org.

Simply visit /invite/invite-others.aspx (you will need to be logged in).

Help show the world what WA can do by inviting your friends and family to join you now!

The morning takeaway 'pick-me-up' - it's an institution for many of us coffee-lovers and it's costing the planet on a daily basis.

According to the latest numbers, half a billion disposable coffee cups end up in Australian landfill each year - that's about 1.36 million paper cups (lined with non-recyclable polyethylene plastic coating) each day!

At iiNet, staff are doing their bit to stamp out coffee cup waste with the help of reusable KeepCups. These nifty designer coffee cups are barista friendly, made of recyclable polypropylene #5 (a safe food grade plastic) and help to alleviate guilt from takeaway caffeine hits.

Today's takeaway:

Ditch the throwaway coffee cup and BYO. You'll be helping to save a few more trees, reduce landfill and energy used to produce your daily caffeine fix (or fixes).

If you're an iiNet customer, keep an eye out for your next edition of iiNews - they're giving away 100 iiNet KeepCups to customers later this month.

Unfortunately, with the rapid growth in the number of people participating we soon found that this live map was causing performance issues and was causing the browsers to crash for a number of people. A nice problem to have you might say.

Since then, we've only had a static image of the map which when clicked on would show a summary of households in the region. Nowhere near as satisfying. That's why we've included below the current maps of WA and Perth so you can check out just how many people are participating in the program.

And we're pleased to announce that we've just launched some new functionality so that when you click on the map next to your pledge card when you are logged on to daysofchange.org you will then see a live map with the 200 households nearest to your household that are participating in Days of Change. Simply visit /maps/map-of-households-in-your-area.aspx (you may need to log on).

FREE Electronic Waste Recycling Event

Sat 12 & Sun 13 June 2010

9am-4pm

Perth regional councils are again working with Apple Pty Ltd to coordinate a metro-wide free e-waste recycling event.

This year there are eight locations across Perth to dispose of your unwanted televisions, computers and other electrical items:

1. MIDDLE SWAN: City of Swan Operations Centre, Corner Bishop Road and Great Northern Highway
2. STIRLING: City of Stirling Administration Centre, Corner Civic Place and Cedric Street, Stirling
3. COTTESLOE: Town of Cottesloe, Corner Napier Street and Marine Parade, Cottesloe
4. CANNING VALE: SMRC Regional Resource Recovery Centre, 350 Bannister Road, Canning Vale
5. CRAIGIE: City of Joondalup Craigie Leisure Centre, Whitfords Avenue, Craigie
6. ROCKINGHAM: City of Rockingham, Corner Chalgrove Avenue and Civic Boulevard, Rockingham
7. SPEARWOOD: Sims Recycling, 174 Barrington Street, Spearwood
8. ARMADALE: City of Armadale Landfill and Recycling Facility, Hopkinson Road, Brookdale

What will be accepted:

• Computers
• Televisions
• Home office equipment
• Electronic games and consoles
• Entertainment equipment

Products that will not be accepted include white goods, overhead projectors and other kitchen household appliances, hazardous waste, contaminated equipment, broken glass or monitors, and batteries that are not an integral part of the system.

All items collected during the weekend will be manually dismantled and their components sent for recycling (plastic, metal, copper, silver, nickel, glass etc). Recycling costs are provided courtesy of Apple Pty Ltd.

Please pass this information on to friends and family.

For more information visit www.wastenet.net.au.