Influence: Rinehart, Fairfax, IPA, United States of Tara 3 February 2012 – You never know what someone is up to behind closed doors. There you are reading a salacious article on how one of the world’s richest people is fighting her children in... 
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By Tina Perinotto 15 December 2011 – Keith Gunaratne, chief executive and founder of energy efficiency company EP & T Global, has a way to gauge popular sentiment on climate change and carbon. You could call it the taxi index. A few years ago... 
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By Tina Perinotto 24 November 2011 – At last Monday’s conference in Sydney, organised jointly by the Australian Property Institute and the Property Funds Association, it was clear that the industry Read More > >  
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26 October 2011 – The Berkeley Earth team has bad news on temperatures for the earth. The consensus has been right, despite the accusations Read More > >  
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26 October 2011 – Scientific American reports that the US Central Intelligence Agency is keeping its assessment of climate change secret. “In 2009, the CIA established a Center on Climate Change and National Security dedicated to researching... 
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Yin and Yang of life and lessons from Steve Jobs 13 October 2011 – The carbon price package is through  – the Lower House at least. Read More > >  
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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 > >  
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The IPD Green Property Index shows commercial property assets with Green Star or high NABERS energy ratings again outperform non-rated assets.  
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27 June 2011 – Meteorologist Jeff Masters of internet weather service wundergound.com says The astonishing number of weather disasters and unprecedented wild swings in Earth’s atmospheric circulation were like nothing he’s even seen in... 
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17 June 2011 – The federal government has released specific details of expected climate change impacts for Australia’s states and territories in a report, Climate Change Potential Impacts and Costs. Following are highlights from the report. The... 
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By Tina Perinotto 3 June 2011 – Tony Arnel, chair of the GBCA and World GBC, Victorian Building and Plumbing Commissioner, plus holder of a string of other leadership positions including with the Melbourne Comedy Festival, never fails to both inspire... 
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By Leon Gettler 12 May 2011 – Queensland, the state of floods and cyclones that devastated property, has become Australia’s laboratory for sustainable building, for creating resilient homes, offices and structures in the face of climatic volatility. In... 
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By Geoff Lazarus 7 April 2011: It’s impossible not to love the magnificent scenery and spectacular glacial mountains of Milford Sound on New Zealand”s South Island. I began to think it would be a great place to retire to, but its isolation... 
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16 March 2011 – As the bleak news from Japan continues and a nuclear catastrophe threatens, Prudential Financial today said its foundation, The Prudential Foundation, will contribute 500 million yen, $6.1 million, to support relief efforts. “Our thoughts... 
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By Michael Mobbs 3 March 2011 – In April 2004, the hypothesis that the Gulf Stream is switching off received a boost when a retrospective analysis of U.S. satellite data seemed to show a slowing of the North Atlantic Gyre, the northern swirl of the... 
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By Tina Perinotto 10 February 2011 –The federal government today launched its promised Climate Commission, appointing leading scientist and climate change activist Tim Flannery as its chief commissioner. It has given the commission wide power to... 
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8 February 2011 – The Australian Conservation Foundation this week released a fact sheet with comments from leading scientists on climate change. “While no individual weather event can be directly attributed to climate change alone, increases... 
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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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19 January 2011 – The Gold Coast City Council today decided to send $450,000 in financial support for the Queensland flood disaster. The council had already sent 1000 temporary beds to Emerald, “a significant amount of machinery and personnel... 
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By Lyn Drummond 19 January 2011 – With some economists putting a figure of $20 billion on the Queensland flood damage, the terms of reference for the state government’s Commission of Inquiry has already come under fire for not being broad enough.... 
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By Lyn Drummond 19 January 2011 – Architects will propose to the Queensland government that building design be considered in its terms of reference for its Commission of Inquiry into the Queensland floods, as industry bodies respond to the crisis. According... 
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18 January 2011 – Australia’s GDP may fall and vegetable prices will soar, but some industries are poised to benefit from the flood disaster in Queensland and northern NSW, according to business information analysts IBISWorld. IBISWorld today... 
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12 January 2011 - Climate scientist David Karoly addressed major media outlets on Wednesday morning to warn that although the Queensland flood crisis could not be directly attributed to climate change, more unstable weather related to global warming was... 
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By Michael Mobbs 11 January 2010 – Coal is Australia’s biggest boomerang. With every shipload of coal we send overseas we import more frequent and extreme droughts and floods. Our coal comes back to Australia in the form of heartbreaking storms,... 
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15 December 2010 - Federal Climate Change Minister Greg Combet today released new maps produced in partnership with the Co-operative Research Centre for Spatial Information that identify the impacts of rising sea levels on low-lying areas in Melbourne,... 
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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 Peter Lewis From the ABC – 7 December 2010 - It was a year ago today that the hottest gig in global warming opened in Copenhagen, amidst expectations that the world’s leaders would rise above their geographical interests and make a stand... 
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17 August 2010 – The Greens have called for Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard to improve their five per cent emission reduction targets after the release of an Australian Academy of Sciences report detailing comprehensive evidence of climate change. The... 
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Brief: October 1 - While countries such as Australia have much to lose through rising sea levels, in many developing nations the consequences will be dire. The New York Times reported recently that a study by the Vietnamese government shows the Mekong... 
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