By Lynne Blundell The Senate has rejected the Efficient Building Scheme proposed by Lend Lease and WSP Lincolne Scott. The Property Council’s Peter Verwer has lambasted the scheme and has pinned the PCA strategy for sustainable building upgrades on accelerated depreciation, despite doubts that it will be effective. The Senate’s rejection yesterday ...Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto Comment: 18 March 2010 - “What we have here is failure to deliver,” the surly prison guard in the mirror glasses might have said in Cool Hand Luke. The NSW Government deserves to be locked up. It has failed to deliver the credible long term planning which is the fundamental ...Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto 17 March 2010 - Australians could be on the cusp of “getting it” in terms of downsizing their houses to more sustainable and affordable levels, if you take note of Stockland chief executive Matthew Quinn. Mr Quinn, who heads Australia’s biggest residential developer, said the evidence was coming through ...Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto 16 March 2010 - Ranked in the top quartile for climate change leadership and best practice in the latest Climate Institute survey are - in alphabetical order - AustralianSuper, Cbus, Christian Super, HESTA, HOSTPLUS, Local Government Super, NGS Super and Vision Super. The news is not so good ...Read More > >

by Lynne Blundell FAVOURITES - 26 August 2010 - Summer is on the way – well it certainly feels that way with Sydney last week experiencing the warmest August temperatures on record - and we haven’t even got to spring yet. And there’s a lot of talk of record high temperatures, ...Read More > >

By Lynne Blundell The smart grid is a “much riskier business model, beyond poles and wires, as it’s now about a customer response. Letting customer response drive initiatives is riskier. We have to break the existing business model and build a new one. And it’s a riskier model because there is ...Read More > >

GOVERNMENT  - 1 February 2010  - 9 (UPDATED 4 March 2020) Sydney Theatre company’s home at Walsh Bay will soon be equipped with one of  Australia’s largest building-integrated solar photovoltaic array in the country as part of a $1.17 million greening program under NSW Climate Change Fund. The fund has allocated ...Read More > >

FAVOURITES - 3 July 2009 - By Michael Kiely, Carbon Farmers of Australia - Each year, by some estimates,  8 per cent of the legacy load of atmospheric carbon is drawn into plants and by it would take only 12 years to draw all of the carbon out of the ...Read More > >

by Lynne Blundell FAVOURITES - 15 July 2010 - Amanda McCluskey is a woman on the move – literally. When she did this interview with The Fifth Estate she was walking between engagements, on her way to an international corporate governance forum, and later attending a forum on the United Nations ...Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto FAVOURITES - 14 October 2009 - A company that has pioneered low cost solar desalination systems for industry and the home is about to start production of the units by November and already has around 5000 units on order. Peter Johnstone, the inventor of the Carosell desalination system and ...Read More > >

by Lynne Blundell FAVOURITES - 15 July 2009 - The City of Sydney’s recently opened Surry Hills Community Centre is expected to set new standards for integrated sustainable design for Sydney’s public buildings. Designed by architecture firm fjmt, headed by Richard Francis-Jones, the building integrates innovative environmental systems into a flexible state-of-the-art ...Read More > >

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