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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By Jane Jose 4 March 2011 – It’s been a summer to remember. A summer that saw Queensland go from beautiful one day, perfect the next, to disaster for the next few weeks. Speaking with characteristic calm and control we heard from the Queensland Premier,... 
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1 March  2011 – Federal Independent MP Tony Windsor this week launched new research from the Climate Institute to show regional potential clean energy resources available from carbon pollution pricing and clean energy policies, but outlines pathways... 
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By Tina Perinotto 1 March 2011 –In what could signal a major breakthrough, property investment analyst IPD on Monday launched its long awaited green property index at Green Cities 2011 and the results vindicate the industry’s commitment to a... 
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by Lynne Blundell 31 May 2010 – FAVOURITES: Warren Ebert has strong opinions about green buildings. As principal of Queensland property investment company, Sentinel Asset Management, he believes in them because they make financial sense – they... 
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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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24 February 2011 – The Sydney City Council has embarked on a deck chairs and tables strategy to foster public life and “pop-up outdoor relaxation areas” taking a leaf out of a recent New York’s experiment. For the next month, the... 
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By Tina Perinotto 17 February 2011 – According to chief executive of Grosvenor Australia Rob Kerr the five star Green Star and five star NABERS Energy ambitions for Eclipse, the company’s joint venture office tower with Leighton Properties... 
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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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21 February 2011 – Members of the property industry raised more than  $320,000 in Brisbane last week at a benefit for the Premier’s Disaster Relief Appeal. More than 550 people attended the event at Friday’s at the Riverside Centre. CB... 
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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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3 March 2011 –CASE STUDY: The landmark former Optus Building in North Sydney building has achieved a five star NABERS energy rating following its $40 million refurbishment in 2007-2008. The property at 101 Miller Street, owned by Mirvac Funds Limited... 
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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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14 February 2011 – A new US based report on the benefits of green office space  has found that green building movement is growing and that the economic and environmental benefits have started to drive the decision-making by industry leaders. The... 
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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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15 February 2011 – Australia’s first five star Green Star social housing project in Sydney’s inner west suburb of Lilyfield was officially launched this week by NSW Minister for Housing Frank Terenzini and Member for Balmain Verity Firth. The... 
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By Tina Perinotto 10 February 2011 – Salaries for environmental professionals in top listed companies have surged ahead of those of their peers in the safety sector by a massive 25 per cent, according to the latest 2011 SafeSearch and EnviroSearchGlobal... 
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9 February 2011 – The Erina Fair shopping Centre on the NSW Central Coast has installed a world first on-site compost system in its bid to improve sustainable outcomes. According to owners Lend Lease and GPT and manager Australian Prime Property... 
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9 February 2011 -  Grattan Institute chief executive officer John Daley said at a Roads Australia pricing  forum on 31 January that there were many benefits to congestion pricing, including: that congestion imposes large economic costs; congestion... 
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By Tina Perinotto 4 February 2011 – The Australian property industry has the power to radically transform itself and society, both here and overseas, says leading sustainability design consultant, Simon Wild. The key to its success lies in industry... 
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By Leon Gettler 3 February 2011 – Adapting to floods, bushfires, and cyclones will not be cheap. Engineers say infrastructure cannot be made totally invulnerable, only resilient. But that will add to the cost. In the wake of extreme weather... 
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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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By Michael Mobbs 2 February 2011 – What has growing native pastures and weeds and trees on farms got to do with soil, carbon, governments, red tape, scientists and a tree-planting non-government body called Landcare? Let me tell you a couple of... 
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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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