10 March 2011 –Peddling ideas to increase numbers of cyclists and improve sharing of roads and paths can garner up to $10,000 in grants. Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore says volunteer time, equipment, materials and cash can be used in the resident’s... 
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10 March 2011 – Ecospecifier has launched a free to air new website to display its new GreenTag™ GreenRate Green Building Council of Australia recognised product certification and rebranded verified product listings. The new site is suitable for anyone... 
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9 March 2011 ­– Rod Leaver will be the new Lend Lease chief executive officer for Asia after the departure of Eng­Peng Ooi, who is leaving after 30 years with the group, with Mr Leaver’s role as CEO of the Australian business to be taken over... 
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10 March 2011 –The City of Sydney will donate $50,000 to the Christchurch earthquake appeal. The donation to the Australian Red Cross NZ Earthquake Appeal 2011 will provide emergency relief and recovery assistance, send specialist aid workers to assist... 
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2 February 2011 – From Avaaz – In 48 hours, nearly half the British mass media could be bought by one of the world’s worst media moguls. Rupert Murdoch has exploited his vast media empire to push war in Iraq, elect George W Bush, spread resentment... 
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25 February 2011 – The board of the World Green Building Council is scheduled to meet in Melbourne on Sunday, ahead of the Green Cities 2011 conference. Key issues for discussion are four strategic priorities for 2011: creating a global common language... 
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23 February 2011 – Outgoing Chief Scientist Penny Sackett briefed former prime minister Kevin Rudd only once during his tenure and had never briefed current prime minister Julia Gillard, according to ABC reports of Professor Sackett’s testimony... 
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21 February 2011 – It’s countdown to Green Cities 2011 – the sustainable property industry’s lead event for the year, and maybe some fireworks, knowing that Bjorn Lomborg (has he/ hasn’t he recanted from his position as major climate... 
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21 February 2011 – Members of the property industry raised more than  $320,000 in Brisbane last week at a benefit for the Premier’s Disaster Relief Appeal. More than 550 people attended the event at Friday’s at the Riverside Centre. CB... 
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16 February 2011 – Clearwater, an urban water education program comprising project partners Melbourne Water, Municipal Association of Victoria, Department of Sustainability and Environment Victoria, and Environment Protection Authority Victoria, has... 
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From Springwise: 15 February 2011 – The government of North Holland is planning to install solar panels on a cycle path near the town of Krommenie, near Amsterdam. The Solaroad project has been developed by the TNO research institute alongside the Province... 
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15 February 2011 – From EDIE Green jobs grew more than three times faster at 3 per cent than total employment in California  from January 2008 to 2009.  According to research from Next 10 between 1995 and 2009, the renewable energy generation sector... 
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From EDIE: 15 February 2011 – Germany is ahead of the UK in green business growth, research by The Carbon Trust has shown.  The Carbon Trust found that while 92 per cent of UK businesses acknowledge the opportunities of green growth only a third are... 
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9 February 2011 -  Grattan Institute chief executive officer John Daley said at a Roads Australia pricing  forum on 31 January that there were many benefits to congestion pricing, including: that congestion imposes large economic costs; congestion... 
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28 January 2011 – The Australian Green Infrastructure Council has asked for reader views on how the sustainability rating tool currently being developed can be described and branded and has offered a survey to assist. Chief exective officer Doug... 
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Brief: 27 January 2011 –Hassell has been voted number one architecture practice in Australasia for a second year running in a survey by the building design magazine World Architecture. Among the world’s 100 largest architectural practices, Hassell... 
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23 January 2011 - Sinclair Knight Merz reported during the week that although its offices on South Bank in Brisbane were flooded at ground level and in the basement car park, the collective technical expertise of staff was able to quickly repair damage. Queensland... 
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From Climate Spectator – 23 January 2011 – It seems that governments everywhere are continuing to grossly underestimate the enthusiasm for rooftop solar. The NSW government has been so overwhelmed by applications to install rooftop solar... 
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From Treehugger – 21 January 2011 – The cloisters of Salisbury Cathedral in Salsbury, England have been transformed into a maze of 69 towers. Two sides of them are now filled with 15,000 water bottles that change colour in synch with choral music. Created... 
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19 January 2011 – The Gold Coast City Council today decided to send $450,000 in financial support for the Queensland flood disaster. The council had already sent 1000 temporary beds to Emerald, “a significant amount of machinery and personnel... 
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19 January 2010 – Organisers of the Green Cities 2011 conference in Melbourne starting on 27 February are searching for products or materials that are considered “extreme” today, but may be the norm in 2020. The products or materials... 
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19 January 2011 - Granada Media is currently searching for designers, artists, creatives, architects and decorators for a new design-based reality television show called Top Design to be hosted on Channel Nine by Jamie Durie. “We’re looking for... 
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19 January 2011 – An innovative  social network website SolaMaps is connecting solar power users around the world. “While NASA and Google provided snapshots of the Earth brilliantly lit by the burning glow of consuming energy,  SolaMaps... 
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By  Keith Orchison 13 January 2011 – From Business Spectator – A question mark hangs over the future of one of Australia’s largest power generators as we enter the new year and a new decade – and because of this there is also a query... 
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13 January 2011 – The Tesla Roadster electric supercar is now on the market for Australians and will be on display on Saturday 15 January at First Fleet Park at Circular Quay, Sydney. The hand-built carbon fibre machine delivers “supercar... 
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20 December 2010 - Good Environmental Choice Australia has released a new standard for fully finished furniture. The new GECA-28 Furniture and Fittings 2010 standard is available at the GECA website. Release dates for revised panel boards and floor coverings... 
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17 December 2010 – Closing date for submissions to the Green Building Council of Australia’s new rating tool Green Star – Performance will be 25 February 2011. The new rating tool is designed to assess the operational performance of existing... 
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17 December 2010 – Construction of a 450-mirror solar facility showing that electricity can be economically generated by sun power started at the CSIRO National Solar Energy Centre in Newcastle is underway. The tower, Australia’s largest, will demonstrate... 
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17 December 2010 – The Warren Centre’s Innovation Hero Awards to recognise Australia’s most creative and inspirational engineers have been announced. Dr Simon Poole and Dr Steven Frisken – Finisar Australia – design, development... 
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15 December 2010 – Social enterprise Barefoot Power won one of only two Consensus GreenTech Awards last week for its solar-powered LED lamps designed for pro-poor communities in developing countries. GreenTech judges said: “This Award is for Barefoot... 
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