Solar Dwellings

04/10/2026

Solar Dwellings clients have been supporting The Hunger Project for 40 years — a portion of every home we design goes to The Hunger Project Australia.

Want to know where those donations go and how they help tackle global hunger?

Join an informal chat about The Hunger Project and the community-led programs your support has helped build.

Find out more and register: https://events.humanitix.com/four-decades-of-empowering-communities

04/10/2026

The 2026 Solar Dwellings Bus Tour leaves in one week — only a handful of spots remain, so book now: https://events.humanitix.com/bus-tour-2026

Join us to tour compact, multigenerational and view-focused sustainable homes.

02/10/2026

We’re thrilled Catalina Sustainable Home will be featured on Dream Homes Revealed on 9LIFE — Saturday 10 October at 5:30 pm. If you can’t catch it live, the episode will be available later on 9Now. Griff will join Peter from and Chris from the Catalina Regional Council to tell the story behind this standout build.

With brick shortages front of mind across the industry, Catalina shows how clever material choices can still achieve a 10‑star energy rating. The design pairs stud-framed exterior walls with rammed limestone and recycled-brick interior walls to add thermal mass and help maintain comfortable indoor temperatures.

Built for multigenerational living, the home caters to a broad range of mobility needs and has earned Silver certification from Livable Housing Australia — and we’ve included additional accessibility features beyond Silver to better support people with limited mobility and reduce fall risks.

We’d love to share more in person — join us for a talk at Catalina Sustainable Home on Sunday 18 October at 9:30am: https://events.humanitix.com/your-dream-home-at-catalina

30/09/2026

We couldn’t agree more. At a time when violence against women continues to make headlines, it’s inspiring to hear from women who have fought for their basic human rights. Their courage and determination remind us why we continue to support The Hunger Project Australia and its work to empower women.

30/09/2026

28/08/2026

Join us at Catalina Sustainable Home — Griff Morris on how we used passive solar to create our award-winning🏆️ , money-saving home.💲

Book your tickets here https://buff.ly/QRB3Psw All proceeds from ticket sales go to The Hunger Project

24/07/2026

Catalina Sustainable Home strikes again.

Griff, alongside Peter and Jo from Nulook Homes , accepted the 2026 HIA Australia GreenSmart Sustainable Home award at the HIA GreenSmart Future Homes Forum.

11/07/2026

All profits from the Solar Dwellings Bus Tour on 11 October go to , supporting people like Annes.

At 25, Annes Kampini, a mother of two, rebuilt her family’s future after marrying at 19 when her parents struggled and her father left for work in South Africa. With no money for fertiliser, her crops failed and she survived mostly on casual labour. “We had a poor harvest every time because we could not afford to buy fertiliser. It was a big struggle,” she says.

In 2024 she joined a community savings and support group run by The Hunger Project. She learned new planting methods, how to diversify crops, and to use goat manure as a low-cost fertiliser. She also received five goats through a pass-it-on initiative and will pass the same number of offspring to another family.

Using manure and new skills, Annes began irrigating in winter instead of relying only on rain. She recently harvested cabbage and now has tomatoes in her field. Her next goal is to increase yields to keep her children in school and secure her family’s future.

Book your tickets here https://events.humanitix.com/bus-tour-2026

10/07/2026

The Solar Dwellings Bus Tour is back for 2026.

This year our first stop is the multi-award-winning Catalina Sustainable Home. From there we’ll visit 4–5 Solar Dwellings houses as we loop back to Solar Dwellings HQ. Chat with homeowners along the route and see passive solar design in action — Griff will be on the bus, answering questions during the ride and at each stop.

Homeowners will share how their homes perform, what they love, and what they’d change if they built again. We’ll post details about the homes we’ll be visiting in the next couple of weeks.

Sunday 11th October

Book your tickets here https://events.humanitix.com/bus-tour-2026

All profits from the bus tour go to The Hunger Project.

15/06/2026

Save the date — you asked, so we’re happy to confirm the SD Bus Tour will run on Sunday 11 October from 9:30am to 1pm.

Over the next few months, we’ll be working with homeowners to see who’ll open their houses and with the bus operator to organise transport.

The easiest way to stay informed is to join our mailing https://solardwellings.com.au/news-events/