By Tina Perinotto 14 September 2011  – Dexus Property will reap a major upside to its industrial investment property at Perris in Southern California in the US with the lease of the rooftop space for a massive solar power installation. Read More... 
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12 September 2011 – Stockland has been named the world’s most sustainable property company in the highly regarded Dow Jones Sustainability Index for 2011-2012. The index evaluates the corporate governance, risk management, climate change mitigation... 
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By Amanda McCluskey 8 September 2011 – Colonial First State’s Amanda McCluskey, head of responsible investment and sustainability, and David Gait, senior portfolio manager of emerging markets recently travelled to India to examine key sustainability... 
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By James E. Hansen 7 September 2011 – From Cimate Story Tellers: Tar Sands Action organised a civil disobedience sit-in at The White House to oppose construction of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that began on August 20, culminating in a big... 
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By David Gait, Senior Portfolio Manager of Emerging Markets, Colonial First State, Global Asset Management 8  September 2011 – We are in the office of the CEO of an Indian bank, struggling to make ourselves heard. Just to the right of the sofa... 
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6 September 2011 – The 10 American cities in the Large Cities Climate Leadership Group – the C40 –  have switched to hybrid or electric taxis and buses, are encouraging cycling and retrofitting home and offices, according to The Economist.... 
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6 September 2011 – From Treehugger : Two weeks of sustained protest concluded outside the White House yesterday. Over that time, over 1,250 people were arrested in order to send a single, simple message to the Obama administration Read More > >  
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31 August 2011 – One of the world’s most prominent climate scientists, NASA’s James Hansen was arrested yesterday outside the White House in the US, along with 140 other protesters against the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline... 
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27 August 2011 – A new green rebuild assessment tool for Christchurch is being developed by the New Zealand Green Building Council and industry specialists as part of the rebuilding program after the massive earthquake February. The tool is being... 
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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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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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By Lyn Drummond 3 August 2011 – The New Zealand Green Building Council has awarded the country’s first six star Green Star Office Interiors 2009 rating to the Bank of New Zealand’s Harbour Quays offices in Wellington and will soon be certifying... 
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1 August 2011 – New Zealand has released a report on its Emissions Trading Scheme and it shows a strong upswing in support from businesses since the scheme was introduced two years ago. Highlights from the report include that 68 per cent of business... 
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By Peter Droege and Matthew Ulterino 19 July 2011 – In an age of petroleum production risks and mounting carbon costs cities should plan their sustainable development strategies by assessing and lowering their exposure to airport dependency risk –... 
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14 July 2011 – Lend Lease yesterday announced agreement with the US military to reduce energy consumption in a huge defence property portfolio of housing and non-residential property by at least 20 per cent in the next two to five year.The deal... 
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7 July 2011 – You can see the factory through a web-cam on a live feed. It’s the latest place to order your zero carbon home, a pre-fab personalised dwelling for the low carbon economy, according to a posting from Springwise “The E-Cube... 
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17 February 2011 – FAVOURITES: A landmark study from leading investment analyst Mercer into climate change risk has recommended that  institutions shift up to 40 per cent of their investments into “climate sensitive” assets. Read More >... 
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By Lyn Drummond 1 June 2011 – The UK will become the first country in the world to create a national bank dedicated to the greening of the economy in a move that has been hailed as a turning point for the British economy and the start of a sustainable... 
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Waste management is one of the primary urban environmental issues facing Asia today. This article from Sustainability Asia, published by CB Richard Ellis, Asia Pacific, examines regional waste management and recycling practices and looks at how the issue... 
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18 May 2011 – [Updated 19 May 2011] The UK yesterday announced that it would cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50 per cent by 2025 based on 1990 levels, with the news seized upon by Australian Climate Change Minister Greg Combet as evidence that the world... 
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2 May 2011  – Jeremy Grantham is chief investment officer of GMO Capital which has more than US $106 billion in assets under management. In this article for The Oil Drum he catalogues many of the issues related to resource depletion. As the publication... 
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23 February 2011 – The weather is turning bad, with disastrous consequences for food supplies, prices and political stability. Russia, Brazil and most worryingly China, are facing food shortages and soaring prices. Writing powerfully on this topic in... 
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By Lyn Drummond 13 April 2011 – Climate risk assessment of sea level rises changed the height of a bridge in Canada according to a report by two Australian scientists for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, whose findings... 
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14 April 2011  – Google said it will invest US$168 million investment in Brightsource Energy’s Ivanpah solar power plant in the Mojave desert in California. According to Treehugger, the the solar farm will have a capacity of 392 MW, or the equivalent... 
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30 March 2011 – China Reform Commission Vice Chairman Xied Zhenhua, spoke at a media conference at the Australian National University, Canberra on climate change today. Following are highlights of the transcript from the office of Federal Climate Change... 
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24 March – – Ribena is developing a new strain of climate change resistant blackcurrants as part of a world wide response by the world’s biggest companies to adapt to climate change and seize opportunities, The Economist Intelligence Unit and... 
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23 March 2011 –Udated 24 March 2011 – Commercial real estate agencies Colliers International and CB Richard Ellis, Jones Lang LaSalle and architectural firm Woodhead will be among the many property industry companies to once again support Earth... 
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23 March – From The New York Times: When Macarena Chiriboga came to Bali in 2009, she had just finished a master’s degree in architecture in the US doing her thesis on the use of bamboo as a building material. The trip was meant to be a vacation.... 
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16 March 2011 – As the bleak news from Japan continues and a nuclear catastrophe threatens, Prudential Financial today said its foundation, The Prudential Foundation, will contribute 500 million yen, $6.1 million, to support relief efforts. “Our thoughts... 
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10 March 2011 – From The Economist. Australian mammalogist and palaeontologist, Tim Flannery is an environmental celebrity. His 2005 book,The Weather Makers, about climate science and global warming, was a bestseller. His latest Here on Earth is his... 
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