20 September 2011 – Lend Lease on Monday night showcased its new six star Green Star Commonwealth Bank Place at Darling Quarter in Sydney in its launch event for World Green Building Week Read More > >  
Read More →

By Lyn Drummond 21 September 2011 – Sustainable Business Australia and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s APEC secretariat are developing a carbon capability program for Vietnam and Indonesia. Read More > >  
Read More →

By Tony Arnel, chairman, World Green Building Council 19 September 2011  – In Charles Dickens’ final novel, Our Mutual Friend, dust is literally transformed into gold by an entrepreneurial dustman who understands the value of waste. In Victorian... 
Read More > >

18 September 2011 – The Tea Party in the US has sustainable development in its cross hairs. In their view it’s a plot to destroy the American way of life: the “single family residence – which is to say, the middle class suburb with tract... 
Read More > >

By Lyn Drummond 14 September 2011 – Moreland Energy Foundation Ltd is in an alliance with nine local councils in Melbourne’s north for greenhouse gas action – an arrangement that has resulted in cheaper energy benefits for the communities, says... 
Read More > >

By Rod Leaver,  chief executive officer for Asia at Lend Lease, based in Singapore 14 September 2011 – From The Business Times: This week marks the opening of Singapore’s third Green Building Week since it was established in 2009.... 
Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto 14 September 2011 ­– If there were any green building deniers still out there in property world, Monday’s release of the latest research by the Australian Property Institute and the Property Funds Association of Australia... 
Read More > >

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... 
Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto 23 August 2011 – There are plenty of people keen for the environmental upgrade agreement models to be finalised, but perhaps none more so than property and development consultants, Napier & Blakeley. The company recently launched... 
Read More > >

By Lyn Drummond 14 September 2011 – Australian banks have rated highly in the latest Carbon Disclosure Global 500 Report with Westpac Banking Corporation ranked one of the top 10 companies in both the Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index and the Carbon... 
Read More > >

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... 
Read More > >

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... 
Read More > >

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... 
Read More > >

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... 
Read More > >

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.... 
Read More > >

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 > >  
Read More →

1 September 2011 – The final round of Green Building Fund grants, Round 7, was announced today (Wednesday) and all the big property names were there. They included ISPT, DEXUS, GE Real Estate Investments, Westfield, Abacus Funds Management, Stockland,... 
Read More > >

By Leon Gettler 1 September 2011 – When it comes to creating a sustainable building or refurbishing an old one so that it picks up NABERS stars, there is no one size fits all solution. Read More > >  
Read More →

By Tina Perinotto 1 September 2011 – It has taken 12 years from go to whoa, 3000 workers at various stages of construction, a meshing of ambitious design and new technology, a potentially lethal confrontation with an advancing global financial crisis,... 
Read More > >

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... 
Read More > >

30 August 2011 – Dexus chief executive officer Victor Hoog Antink donned harness and a liberal dose of courage to abseil down the 28 floor atrium of 1 Bligh Street in Sydney on Monday ahead of Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s official opening... 
Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto 29 August 2011 – Severe weather events as a result of climate change are already taking a huge toll on communities, including extreme stress, emotional injury and despair, leading to self harm and suicide at rates higher... 
Read More > >

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... 
Read More > >

By Lynne Blundell 19 August 2011 – NABERS yesterday launched a new 6-star energy and water rating for buildings and announced new ratings tools for transport, data centres and hospitals. But while the launch was lauded by many in the industry, others... 
Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto 23 August 2011 – Sustainability is the number one opportunity for the property industry over the next five years, according to the latest Construction Sentiment Monitor from Davis Langdon. In fact one of the biggest risk to the industry... 
Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto 22 August 2011 – Davis Langdon has released a report analysing the impact of the carbon price on the cost of construction materials. The upshot? Not much at all, especially after industry assistance, the company said. The big question... 
Read More > >

17 August 2011 – Case study: The time has come when tenants want to know how many bicycle racks there are in a building, rather than car spaces. Read More > >  
Read More →

12 August 2011 – GPT officially launched its new offices on three high rise floors at Sydney’s MLC building on Wednesday with a panel discussion that delved into some of the complex thinking that has delivered a virtually paperless office and... 
Read More > >

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... 
Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto 11August 2011 – Comment: The Productivity Commission again took a stick to zoning issues with its draft retail report released last Thursday on 4 August, recommending, among other things, that the retail industry would be more... 
Read More > >