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Who
are we?
NRMjobs is owned and operated in the Adelaide Hills by husband and wife David Mussared and Chris Duigan (our business is called Email Media). NRMjobs has been published weekly since 1998 (it was originally called 'LAWNads').
David Mussared is a journalist and editor, who has been involved in the community landcare movement since 1989. Chris Duigan is a nurse, with a background in women's health and health administration. David and Chris (and our four children) live on a small property in beautiful Aldgate Valley, in the heart of the Adelaide Hills.
We believe businesses of all kinds should place as
much importance on supporting their communities and conserving the environment
as they do on generating profits. Through NRMjobs we are in touch with a network of inspirational people who are also committed to this triple bottom line approach. We feel privileged to work in such company.
Our ecological footprint
Here are some of the practical things we do in our home and office to try to reduce our ecological footrpint:
- We purchase all our electricity from an accredited 100% Green Power scheme.
- We donate $5 from each paid 'NRMjobs' advert to local environmental projects.
- We have no mains water (we use rainwater for all office and household purposes, and dam water for garden and stock).
- We use only recycled paper, and we use as little of it as possible (most business correspondence, including invoicing etc. is electronic).
- Our waste paper is either recycled, or shredded, used as chook litter and eventually dug into our vegetable garden.
- About a third of our property (a former dairy farm) has been fenced off from stock and set aside for revegetation with local native plant species.
- We use a solar water heater in summer, and in winter our hot water is piped through our slow combustion heater (all firewood is collected sustainably on our own property).
- We are both active members of our local Aldgate Valley Landcare group.
- Our aim is to leave our kids a world at least as beautiful as the one we inherited.
- Here is a link to a Channel 10 TV report about our family.
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