1 February 2012 – MWH sustainable engineering company has donated $US50,000 to The Energy and Resources Institute to bring solar lighting to rural India. The institute supports the Lighting a Billion Lives program which sets up a solar charging station... 
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18 January 2012 ­– Private developers in Japan may qualify for 50 per cent subsidies to build shared use buildings under a program to foster more sustainable cities. And buyers of energy efficient homes may soon qualify for tax breaks. The move is... 
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12 December 2011 –The Durban climate talks agreement leaves gaps in emissions, finance and legal issues warns the Australian Greens, and the Australian Conservation Foundation agrees countries need to be more ambitious in cutting emissions. Read... 
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By Lynne Blundell 2 November 2011 – There are signs that some in the property sector may be outgrowing current sustainability ratings schemes, with several organisations signing up for certification programs that are pushing the sustainability boundaries... 
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6 December 2011 – The United States Obama administration has announced a US$4 billion energy upgrade finance commitment program, similar to Australia’s environmental upgrade agreements. Read More > >  
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7  December 2011  – It’s got Richard Branson’s attention, the Empire State Building and now Melbourne’s 1200 Buildings program is becoming the latest poster child in energy efficiency for buildings. And we haven’t even mentioned President... 
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28 November 2011 – US presidential contender Newt Gingrich was paid $1.8 million for a few hours’ “consulting” to special interests. There are  inflated fees to lawmakers who turn lobbyists.  And congressmen and women legislate... 
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28 November 2011 – China’s plan for seven pilot carbon market schemes across the country has been welcomed by the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Greg Combet. The pilots are expected to start in 2013, across Beijing, Tianjin, Chongqing... 
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By Lyn Drummond 28 November 2011 – Buying nutritious produce grown on your supermarket’s roof could be the order soon if Australia adopts similar concepts to New York based companies Bright Farms and Gotham Greens. Read More > >  
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22 November 2011 – AXA Investment Managers has added to its carbon footprint metric with a series of other metrics such as corporate governance, social and water, as it prepares for what it says will be major growth in responsible investment, especially... 
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By Elena Bondareva 22 November 2011 –What can the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol do for our sector? Read More > >  
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17 November 2011  – The Economist has jumped in to show that despite the massive failure of a co-ordinated climate policy approach by leading world governments, the leading private sector is doing its own thing, surging ahead in some cases with major... 
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3 November 2011 – Sydney based EP&T Global, chaired by former Sydney 2000 Olympic Games chief executive Sandy Holloway, has been appointed to a major energy savings project in a major new development in Dubai. Mr Holloway said the Dubai contract... 
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By Suzette Jackson, HASSELL 2 November 2011 – The aim of the World Sustainable Building Conferences is to share leading knowledge, and find new solutions which enhance sustainable ways of living and working within built environments,... 
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26 October 2011 – From The Atlantic: Toronto has been aggressive about it: they have a new, comprehensive green roof law, the first one in North America. Like all laws, it’s complicated, but new building permit applications for residential,... 
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By Tina Perinotto 25 October 2011 – The forecast for sustainability in property is: prepare for takeoff, and don’t bother holding back. In an incisive and wide-ranging report from Jones Lang LaSalle’s  October issue of the quarterly Global... 
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By Elena Bondareva, Thinc Beyond 20 October 2011 – The Green Building Council of South Africa will hold its annual convention this month – 26 to 28 October in Capetown. Following is an article based on a presentation that Elena Bondareva will... 
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By Romilly Madew, Green Building Council of Australia 20 October 2011 – After two weeks in Canada in late September and early October 2011, during which time a small delegation from Australia saw countless green buildings, Read More > >  
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13 October 2011 ­ From Sustainable Business News: The US Green Building Council is implementing major upgrades in LEED certification standards for buildings in 2012 in response to criticisms. Critics say LEED ratings don’t go far enough –... 
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5 October 2011 –Spain’s Gemasolar Solar Power Plant, the first commercial plant in the world to use molten salt thermal has been formally inaugurated. According to a statement from the company: “Gemasolar is a revolution in the CSP sector... 
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4 October 2011 – Stepping down as chair of the World Green Building Council Tony Arnel said he had seen a fringe green movement become a mainstream industry during  his three year term. He is replaced by Rick Fedrizzi, president and chief executive... 
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4 October 2011 – David Gottfried, founder of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green building rating system in the 1990s, has received an entrepreneurship award from the World Green Building Council. Chairman of the World GBC Tony... 
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4 October 2011 – Electric Bluecars are clean, green, chic and cheap and there should be 500 of them zipping around Paris by 2013 if officials have their way – cutting noise and air pollution and discouraging car ownership. The Guardian’s website... 
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By Monique Alfris 23 September 2011 – For the past few months I’ve been working with Good Return an Australian non government organisation which works with microfinance partners across South East Asia Read More > >  
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26 September 2011 – The Greenprint  Foundation’s development of a benchmarking  performance of the built environment’s investment sector has been accepted as a Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action. The GF is a worldwide alliance of... 
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By Tina Perinotto 23 September 2011 – The bar for sustainable property reporting world-wide  just got higher, thanks to the new reporting guidance for the property construction sector released today (Thursday) by the highly regarded Global Reporting... 
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By Lyn Drummond 21 September 2011 – Sustainable Business Australia and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s APEC secretariat are developing a carbon capability program for Vietnam and Indonesia. Read More > >  
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By Tony Arnel, chairman, World Green Building Council 19 September 2011  – In Charles Dickens’ final novel, Our Mutual Friend, dust is literally transformed into gold by an entrepreneurial dustman who understands the value of waste. In Victorian... 
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18 September 2011 – The Tea Party in the US has sustainable development in its cross hairs. In their view it’s a plot to destroy the American way of life: the “single family residence – which is to say, the middle class suburb with tract... 
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By Rod Leaver,  chief executive officer for Asia at Lend Lease, based in Singapore 14 September 2011 – From The Business Times: This week marks the opening of Singapore’s third Green Building Week since it was established in 2009.... 
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