By Leon Gettler 9 August 2011 – John Bond, son of ’80s entrepeneur Alan Bond, and director of the $1.5 billion wholesale property syndicator Primewest, is just one satisfied client of Ian Knox’s HFM Asset Management. Bond’s entire... 
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By Tina Perinotto 17 February 2011 – Favourites: A glittering line-up of speakers at a Property Council of Australia lunch in Sydney in November last year provided a rare glimpse into the problem-solving, decision-making and sometimes heart-stopping... 
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By Lyn Drummond 2 June 2011 – FAVOURITES: According to Deb Noller of Switch Automation wealthy owners of eastern suburbs  energy prices are starting to bite hard, even in the wealthy eastern suburbs of Sydney. Read More > >  
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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 Tina Perinotto 4 December 2011 – Berkeley and Maastricht universities’ academic Nils Kok arrived in Australia last week to confirm what every sane investor knew all along, that sustainable and energy efficient buildings are better buildings... 
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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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2 August 2011 – The Total Environment Centre is in search of C and D grade buildings in Sydney that have been successfully upgraded, or are in the process of doing so in order to develop a set of case studies to assist other owners. According to manager... 
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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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27 July 2011 – Australia’s urban congestion costs including wasted time in traffic, maintenance, fuel and emissions costs are forecast to be $20.4 billion by 2020 unless cities undertake a major review of their infrastructure, according to a review... 
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By Jenny Towndrow Is happiness a precondition to sustainability or is it the other way around? Jenny Towndrow set out to discover the answer. 27 July 2011 – At the Happiness and its Causes conference in Brisbane, starring His Holiness the Dalai Lama,... 
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26 July 2011 – Out of control insurance premiums are threatening the viability of existing medium and high density communities in cyclone-prone areas of northern Australia. Strata Community Australia chief executive Mark Lever says they are  an urgent... 
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8 July 2011 – An entertaining and mildly illuminating slideshow of China’s tentative steps into the green building world is revealed by Foreign Policy magazine. Whatever you think of progress to date, the sure thing is that this has got to be... 
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13 July 2011 – The Australian Conservation Foundation’s head office in Melbourne, the 60L Green Building, was designed to minimise its impact on the environment when it opened in 2002 but has it measured up ? Read More > >  
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It’s a story of deep resistance to sustainable change, embarrassing mistakes and scientists at 20 paces. Now the clever people have turned the spotlight to the humble real estate agent. Welcome to the wild world of the residential market. By Lynne... 
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By Brian McMahon, principal planning consultant, PlaceMaking and Planning, Parsons Brinckerhoff 20 July 2011 – With the release of its draft consultation plan, Public Transport for Perth in 2031, the state government in Western Australia cannot be... 
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19 July 2011: Low Carbon Australia and Wagga Wagga City Council, NSW are to   cooperate on energy efficiency  in the first agreement of its kind for regional Australia in the second major agreement for the new agency. See our recent article on Low... 
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By Tina Perinotto 19 July 2011 – Forget the abysmal polls that came out on Monday and walloped the carbon tax. Julia Gillard did. Addressing the packed auditorium of about 400 people for the Total Environment Centre’s Green Capital forum Read... 
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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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By Tina Perinotto 7 July 2011  – Brisbane investor Harvest Denison Opportunity Fund has leapfrogged the competition and signed Australia’s deal energy efficiency upgrade and finance deal with Low Carbon Australia. Up to six more agreements are... 
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By Leon Gettler 8 July 2011 – Capital market players say sustainable property might soon become a better investment proposition. A carbon price will force up energy costs. In a carbon market, building owners and investors who know how to slash operating... 
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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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By Lyn Drummond 13 July 2011– Pacific Pyrolysis, an award winning  NSW company that converts organic waste to energy and bichar is  primed  to take advantage of expanding market interest in low emissions technology, its directors say. Slow-pyrolysis... 
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By Tina Perinotto 7 July 2011 – CB Richard Ellis has claimed has offset its greenhouse gas emissions for the entire Australian operations, making it “the first commercial real estate services firm in Australia to be certified under the Australian... 
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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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By Tina Perinotto 30 June 2011 – The Green Building Council of Australia supports a carbon price but it’s going to hurt. In a new report this week detailing the likely impacts of a carbon price and eventually an emissions trading system the GBCA... 
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5 July 2011 – Harvey Norman chairman Gerry Harvey has threatened to sue GetUP! and Markets for Change after the lobbyists launched a strong attack on his company’s use of old growth native timber in a strongly worded campaign and spoof... 
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By Tina Perinotto 29 June 2011 – Exto Partners is a venture capital company that picks start ups, funds them – no leverage – and expects around 50 per cent return for its private and institutional investors. So when Exto boss Peter Hammond selected... 
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By Tina Perinotto 30 June 2011 – “It’s about time we realised the limitations of using the atmosphere as a tip,” said GPT’s Bruce Precious on the launch today (Thursday 30 June) of a new coalition Read More > >  
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By Tina Perinotto 29 June 2011 – Shooting camels, burning savannah in special mosaic formations and capturing methane gasses from pig manure to make energy are just some of the methodologies under consideration  before the federal government’s... 
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28 June 2011 – Almost half of those surveyed by global engineering company MWH in an Australia-wide study of attitudes to natural disasters believe not enough is being done to improve infrastructure to prepare for such events. Twenty four per cent of... 
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