20 September 2011 – Good Environmental Choice Australia will celebrate World Green Building Week on Wednesday 21 September with an open day at its Sydney  office at 15 Belvoir St, Surry Hills from 9am to 5pm. GECA is a not-for-profit eco labelling... 
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20 September 2011 – Cameron Rosen’s Australian Living wants to hear from householders with homes rated above 6 green stars for a new website it is developing called Your Future Home. The sustainable building management consultancy will include... 
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19 September 2011 – The Fifth Estate columnist Michael Mobbs will be guest judge on The Renovators this week, Wednesday 21 September on Channel 10. This episode concentrates on how to make a sustainable office. More information that that is not forthcoming.... 
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15 September 2011 – From Eco-Business.com: Singapore’s building authority has launched a pilot green financing scheme that enables building owners to get bank loans of up to S$5 million to retrofit their building to a greener standard. The government... 
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7 September 2011 – Australia is being accused of trying to remove key commitments in a health policy document on controlling obesity, according to a Sydney Morning Herald article. The article says the government has joined the US and Canada in lobbying... 
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7 September 2011 – Sustainability will be the new performance standard once the Australian Green Infrastructure Council  Sustainability Rating Scheme is finalised later this year. The AGIC national conference on 7 October in Melbourne will  outline... 
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6 September 2011 – The Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Airconditioning and Heating has donated a suite of refrigeration simulation training equipment to the Grafton, NSW campus of TAFE. The simulators are selfcontained, demountable desktop training... 
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31 August 2011 – The City of Sydney is investing in cleaner, greener vehicles to drive down greenhouse gases. The City has also cut back its fleet by 30 per cent in the past five years by using better fleet management techniques. City of Sydney director... 
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31 August 2011 – A government consultation paper on updates to the national carbon offset standard includes proposals for businesses to use credits under the Carbon Farming Initiative when offsetting their carbon pollution. The updates to the paper,... 
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CETEC Pty Ltd is calling for participants in a new study of indoor environment quality and productivity in buildings worldwide. The study will use “recognised IEQ industry testing protocols, occupant satisfaction survey and financial performance... 
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17 August 2011 – Young people supporting climate change are being urged  by the Australian Youth Climate Coalition to attend a national recruitment campaign called Power Shift. The event from 30 September to 2 October in Perth and in Brisbane from... 
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16 August 2011 – Apple’s plans for its new headquarters in Cupertino, California have attracted mixed comments,  from its green credentials (less asphalt,  more trees),  to being  “a self-centered, isolated new office park hidden behind... 
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16 August 2011– The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology has a new rubbish-sorting system with the potential to divert about 1700 litres of recycled materials from general waste every working day after matched funding from Sustainability Victoria. RMIT... 
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16 August 2011 – Organisations in WA including churches and unions supported by national bodies have united in support of a price on carbon pollution and are calling on other West Australians to join them. The group comprises the Conservation Council... 
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10 August 2011 – The NSW government came under fire from The Greens this week for cutting world-class water efficiency programs to increase the value of Sydney’s desalination plant before privatisation. Greens MP John Kaye said the government,... 
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The IPD Green Property Index shows commercial property assets with Green Star or high NABERS energy ratings again outperform non-rated assets.  
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10 August 2011 – From Treehugger: So many in the business world claim to be sustainable, but back in 2004 Ray Anderson of Interface said “No one should be claiming sustainable products. There is no such thing yet in terms of zero footprint. What... 
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2 February 2011 – The massive US retailer Walmart  has attracted huge media attention for its stated efforts to transform its operations to a greener lower carbon profile, such as its goals to greatly reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and its... 
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2 August 2011 – The Sustainable Energy Association has condemned the termination of a solar feed in tariff in WA as untimely and short-sighted. SEA chief executive, Professor Ray Wills said the plan announced this week by WA Energy Minister, Peter Collier... 
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27 July 2011 – Rising electricity prices will be discussed on the SBS program Insight at 7 30pm on Tuesday 2 August. The program, Power Play, will examine why energy bills have been rising for the past five years, and if anything  can be done about... 
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27 July 2011 – Local Government Super has earned its second consecutive Australian Business Award for its work in environmental sustainability. LGS won the award for upgrading six commercial buildings to a NABERS five star rating and its role in researching... 
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12 July 2011 – Entries for the Banksia Awards which reflect sustainability issues most relevant to Australia close on 22 July. There are 10 separate awards and entrants can be individuals, groups, communities, governments and corporations. Projects... 
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7 July 2011 – The Australian Conservation Foundation will open its head office in Melbourne – the award winning 60L Green building – during an open house of sustainable buildings from 30-31 July. The pioneer of sustainable commercial office buildings... 
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7 July 2011 – Sydney’s Ballast Point Park has won a top prize in Canada for landscape architects, McGregor Coxall. The company won the landscape architecture prize in the first international AZURE awards for the best landscape architecture, announced... 
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7 July 2011 – Broken items will be repaired or re-invented at workshops in Melbourne  on 30 and 31 July – guided by artists, designers and engineers. The launch on 29 July from 6–8pm at the basement of the Donkeywheel House, 673 Bourke Street will... 
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7 July 2011 – Standards Australia will support the bio-fuels sector to promote industry certainty and participate in relevant international policies. The organisation will be another voice in the International Organisation for Standardisation Technical... 
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29 June 2011 – Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been snared for a gig at a Green Capital even in Sydney on 18 July. Ms Gillard will present a keynote address and be part of a Q&A on climate change policy in Australia. An expert panel will... 
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29 June 2011 – Canon Australia is offering five grants to projects or organisations that can demonstrate the greatest positive impact for the environment and community. The grants of Canon products to the sum of $5,000 are awarded for projects of national... 
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28 June 2011 – The NSW head office of nib health funds has been awarded a four star Green Star rating – making it Newcastle’s greenest office. ”We are committed to our building management system that allows the nib head office to be green 365... 
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21 June 2011 – Western Australia’s Mumbida Wind Farm project which is expected to  offset some 165,00 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions each year will be developed by Leighton Contractors in consortium with General Electric. The development, to... 
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