Landcom's Precinx tool is a winner By Tina Perinotto In the sustainability revolution, things are getting serious. You can tell by  the  number of  ratings tools that are under way. It’s as if the time for talk and promises and green bling are over and the industry wants “real measures” for “real ...Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto NABERS, the environmental rating system that today measures the performance of about half of Australia’s CBD office space is under review - and the property industry has been promised full consultation. 11 March 2010 - For many people NABERS, the performance rating tool managed by the NSW Government, is ...Read More > >

By Lynne Blundell India is determined to reduce carbon emissions and to supply renewable power to its enormous population. But with the massive hydro power generation dam projects under way in the sensitive Himalayan foothills, the cost is high. Lynne Blundell recently travelled to the region and here presents a ...Read More > >

by Michael Mobbs Ah! As I write this, it’s such a perfect day for a Burr. A beauty of sun, clear light and, here and there, drops of silence. But Burrs will be burrs, so buckle up. We have here a classic case of do-gooders who, in seeking to do good, actually ...Read More > >

by Nicola Woodward - FAVOURITES - 21 April 2009 - Accelerated Depreciation is a core platform of the property industry as a way to green buildings – but there are major flaws in this approach and better ways to achieve the desired outcomes…. “Green depreciation” is a term that has recently been ...Read More > >

By Lynne Blundell After weeks of controversy over its green schemes, The Federal Government recently announced changes to the Renewable Energy Target, the most positive sign yet that it might be serious about promoting investment in the renewable energy sector. But then last week the NSW government announced expansion of two coal-fired ...Read More > >

Chapter 3: Monarchists and Republicans - mown weeds versus mounds and swales By Philip Pollard FAVOURITES - 21 January 2010 - Philip Pollard’s Phd thesis, Campus as Place, on the transformation of the University of Newcastle into one of the world’s leading sustainability exemplars, is a rare insight into the enormous ...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 > >

By Tina Perinotto CASE STUDY - 11 February 2010 - CFS Retail Property Trust and the Gandel Group has swept aside the challenges of going green for retail property, winning the first 5 Star Green Star for retail centres in Australia for the massive Chadstone Shopping Centre. The top green rating ...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 > >

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 > >

Pixel on Grocon's Melbourne Carlton brewery site, designed by Studio 505: a laboratory for new green architecture ... “Nobody can tell you accurately what the financial impost will be of the cost of a carbon constrained economy,” says David Waldren by Tina Perinotto FAVOURITES - 6 May ...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 > >

FAVOURITES - 10 August 2009 - Winner of the Sustainable Architecture Award at the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) Victorian Chapter Awards was Lend Lease building, The Gauge. Located in Victoria Harbour in the Docklands precinct, construction of the project commenced in 2005 and was completed in April 2008 and achieved ...Read More > >

by Lynne Blundell 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, low rainfall and more bushfires again ...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 > >

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 > >

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