By Tina Perinotto 2 November 2011 – According to Queensland based AECOM managing director for water and infrastructure services Andrew Macleod there is a “desperate” need for skilled people across the entire engineering sector. Some of this... 
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By Suzette Jackson, HASSELL 2 November 2011 – The aim of the World Sustainable Building Conferences is to share leading knowledge, and find new solutions which enhance sustainable ways of living and working within built environments,... 
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Mac banking on EUAs, the Spring Crush and mega trends 26 October 2011 – According to the grapevine Macquarie Bank is the latest financier to be lured to the potentially lucrative world of Environmental Upgrade Agreements. Read More > >  
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26 October 2011 – From The Atlantic: Toronto has been aggressive about it: they have a new, comprehensive green roof law, the first one in North America. Like all laws, it’s complicated, but new building permit applications for residential,... 
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25 October 2011 – Jones Lang LaSalle has released a Mandatory Disclosure Update Paper to help prepare building owners and tenants for the Commercial Building Disclosure Program, also known as Mandatory Disclosure, which comes into effect from 1 November... 
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By Tina Perinotto 25 October 2011 – The forecast for sustainability in property is: prepare for takeoff, and don’t bother holding back. In an incisive and wide-ranging report from Jones Lang LaSalle’s  October issue of the quarterly Global... 
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By Tina Perinotto 25 October 2011 – Engineering and design consultancy WSP Lincolne Scott has this week been rebranded to WSP, as the company embarks on a strategy to capitalise on emerging opportunities, especially in the energy efficiency and retrofit... 
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By Tina Perinotto 19 October 2011 – Green building technologies will be a key driver in a near doubling of the sustainability investment market to $3.1 billion by 2014,  according to a new report from UK based Verdantix. The report forecasts that... 
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By Elena Bondareva, Thinc Beyond 20 October 2011 – The Green Building Council of South Africa will hold its annual convention this month – 26 to 28 October in Capetown. Following is an article based on a presentation that Elena Bondareva will... 
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By Romilly Madew, Green Building Council of Australia 20 October 2011 – After two weeks in Canada in late September and early October 2011, during which time a small delegation from Australia saw countless green buildings, Read More > >  
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By Leon Gettler 17 October 2011 ­– Special Report: The carbon tax is a game changer for the way the property industry will present its financial reports. But then, property is already moving in that space. Australia’s per capita carbon emissions... 
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By Tina Perinotto 13 October 2011  – Melbourne has claimed victory in the  race worldwide to sign the first Environmental Upgrade Agreement. Read More > >  
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13 October 2011 ­ From Sustainable Business News: The US Green Building Council is implementing major upgrades in LEED certification standards for buildings in 2012 in response to criticisms. Critics say LEED ratings don’t go far enough –... 
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By Tina Perinotto 7 October 2011 – At last the Australian sustainability industry is starting to gain an insight into the worth of its people. At least in terms of salaries and roles, thanks to the first comprehensive survey of green jobs. It’s... 
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By Luke Nixon, CB Richard Ellis 6 October 2011 ­– A new report produces more evidence that rated NABERS buildings outperform non rated ones. Early signs indicate that green development in Sydney’s CBD is gaining momentum to help redress an apparent... 
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By Tina Perinotto 6 October 2011 – Beware the many and varied ways the spin doctors enter your headspace. And yes this can be related to the political messages on sustainability and climate change as well as to the next “health” drink. The... 
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By Lyn Drummond 5  October 2011  – Bushfire affected timber was used in the Hassell – designed six star Green Star government services office building to be completed at the end of the year in Dandenong, Victoria. Read More > >  
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5 October 2011 –Spain’s Gemasolar Solar Power Plant, the first commercial plant in the world to use molten salt thermal has been formally inaugurated. According to a statement from the company: “Gemasolar is a revolution in the CSP sector... 
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4 October 2011 – Stepping down as chair of the World Green Building Council Tony Arnel said he had seen a fringe green movement become a mainstream industry during  his three year term. He is replaced by Rick Fedrizzi, president and chief executive... 
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4 October 2011 – David Gottfried, founder of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green building rating system in the 1990s, has received an entrepreneurship award from the World Green Building Council. Chairman of the World GBC Tony... 
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4 October 2011 – Electric Bluecars are clean, green, chic and cheap and there should be 500 of them zipping around Paris by 2013 if officials have their way – cutting noise and air pollution and discouraging car ownership. The Guardian’s website... 
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26 September 2011 – From The New York Times – Do you know how many slaves work on your behalf? While many people may assume the answer to that provocative and unsettling question is zero, the creators of a new Web site want to demonstrate how forced... 
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27 September 2011 – An Oxfam report about the impact of agricultural land grabs around the world shows that current rules, regulations and attitudes about food production and trade are out of step with a new global reality, say the Australian Greens,... 
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By Monique Alfris 23 September 2011 – For the past few months I’ve been working with Good Return an Australian non government organisation which works with microfinance partners across South East Asia Read More > >  
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By Lyn Drummond 20 September 2011 – A survey of green office buildings has shown they are almost twice as energy efficient compared to the Read More > >  
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26 September 2011 – The Greenprint  Foundation’s development of a benchmarking  performance of the built environment’s investment sector has been accepted as a Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action. The GF is a worldwide alliance of... 
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23 September 2011 – Foodwriter, chef and restaurateur Stephanie Alexander yesterday launched Kitchen Garden Week at The GPT Group’s Rouse Hill Town Centre as part of a movement to bring fresh food awareness to more people. According to Ms Alexander... 
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By Tina Perinotto 23 September 2011 – The bar for sustainable property reporting world-wide  just got higher, thanks to the new reporting guidance for the property construction sector released today (Thursday) by the highly regarded Global Reporting... 
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By Tina Perinotto 21 September 2011 – It’s got Richard Branson and his Carbon War Room and potentially billions of dollars of investment in the United States. Australia is also in on the act and Melbourne and Sydney are vying to be the first... 
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By Tina Perinotto 21 September 2011 – News today (Wednesday) that one of Australia’s most highly rated green buildings under construction in Canberra for the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency will use high greenhouse gas emission... 
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