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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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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Michael Green, a speaker at the Green Cities 2011 in Melbourne next week –  dreams of building a skyscraper with wood. Here’s why. 24 February 2011 – From Architecture News – As designers we are all fascinated by architectural precedents,... 
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21 February 2011 – Half of  the corporate real estate executives who took part in the  latest annual Sustainability Survey by CoreNet Global and Jones Lang LaSalle say they would pay more for green buildings, a huge jump on last year’s results. There... 
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From The Economist: 21 February 2011 – THE planet-wide industrial exhalation of previously fossilised carbon is not the only way that humans are changing the Earth’s climate. There are other greenhouse gases, other atmospheric pollutants, the effects... 
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From The Economist: 21 February 2011 – THE frisson of Armageddon is again running through the stalls: London is awash with plays about climate change. At the National Theatre, “Greenland” gives audiences a stern warning against inaction on global... 
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By Tina Perinotto 17 February 2011 – If you are an infrastructure company with few hundred staff, maybe 500, you may get a call from Chris Cole, founder and chief executive of the giant WSP global engineering group. In 2007, this UK-based company... 
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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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16 February 2011 – Lloyd Alter, writing in Treehugger asks an increasingly common question in an article it posted this week: what is a green building? Does inclusion of a feature such as green roof qualify? What if the building required intensive excavation... 
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From CNN: 3 February 2011 – Could a floating dome that can house up to 10,000 people be a model for future living? Russian architect Alexander Remizov thinks so — and his prototype design, called “The Ark,” bears more than a passing... 
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1 February 2011 - Global action is not going to stop climate change, wrote The Economist on 25 November last year. The world needs to look harder at how to live with it. From The Economist –On November 29th representatives of countries from around... 
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1 February 2011 – South Africa’s task at the 17th UN conference of the parties on climate change in November, 2011 is both “appealing and unenviable” judging by the results at the Cancun, Mexico, COP, according to a Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu report. The... 
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13 January 2011- Jerry Yudelson, leading US green building and sustainability consultant and a speaker at last year’s Green Cities 2010 conference in Melbourne has released a list of top worldwide green building trends for 2011. “What we’re... 
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By Tina Perinotto 18 November 2010 -Two announcements this morning  from the heartland of the capital markets may be about to usher in a new era for green buildings that can finally provide evidence of their greater value. In Sydney Adrian Harrington, ... 
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22 December 2010 – DEXUS has put together a team to help Habitat for Humanity to fund a new campaign for 100 Australian women to travel to Nepal and help build homes for some of the poorest female-headed families in the world. The team comprising... 
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By Tina Perinotto 18 December 2010 – Pritzker Prize winning architect Frank Gehry was in Sydney this week to officially introduce his contribution to Sydney’s skyline with a new business school at the University of Technology Sydney. Sustainable... 
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22 December 2010 – A number of companies with Australian connections have won awards in the UK’s prestigious Building Magazine Sustainability awards held in conjunction with the UK Green Building Council. Winners include Cundall which was... 
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From Edie – 16 December 2010 - The Greater London Authority has announced a drive to make food provision at the organisation sustainable. They are pledging that by 2012, or when catering contracts are next up for renewal, sustainability requirements... 
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14 December 2010 – The Greens  said the better than expected result from the Cancun climate talks “significantly raises the stakes for climate politics in Australia” and places pressure on more transparent accounting for carbon forest... 
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13 December 2010 - [Updated] Cancun is over. Was Cop 16 a success? Here are the views of a few leading players and observers: Federal Climate Change Minister Greg Combet Mr Combet said the main points of the outcome at the United Nations Climate Change... 
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By Tina Perinotto 9 December 2010 – Former executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Yvo de Boer is still hopeful that a reasonable agreement can be reached at the Cancun climate change talks, just days... 
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8 December 2010 - Nike early this month released a rating tool for apparel for use by designers that encourages sustainable design and use of natural resources. The Environmental Apparel Design Tool is based on Nike’s Considered Design Index and, according... 
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By Tina Perinotto 14 October 2010 – Alfonso Ponce Alvarez was one of the speakers at the World Green Building Council Congress in Singapore in September.  He spoke with The Fifth Estate on his work with the United Nations to develop a common carbon... 
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by Lynne Blundell Favourites: 17 September 2010 – Japan’s leading property developer and largest builder of pre-fabricated sustainable housing, Sekisui House, has for the first time looked outside its own market for new growth – and its... 
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17 November 2010 - UK building expert Roderic Bunn believes there is an unacceptable disconnect between the design intent of a building and its energy consumption. He also believes that it’s about time the property sector started to emulate the... 
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By Robin Mellon, Green Building Council of Australia 19 November 2010 – The discussion about green roofs and their benefits has been gaining volume in Australia; Green Star certified buildings such as 30 The Bond in Sydney or the Pixel Building... 
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A recent forum outlined the benefits of sustainability on the bottom line for companies including global giant GE. In this report forum host CarbonSystems’ Dan Gaffney outlines the key messages. 19 November 2010 – Four speakers. Four sectors.... 
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