8 February 2012 – Treehugger has highlighted resilient building and living in what it terms as a subtle shift in focus from sustainability to resilience in two published articles. One says walkable communities and older buildings are resilient; they... 
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By Lynne Blundell 8 February 2012 – Geothermal systems are the latest technology to be embraced by wealthy residential clients who wish to be green leaders, according to architect Luigi Rosselli, with one of the firm’s Sydney clients... 
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27 January 2012 – The case against wind farms on health grounds took a dramatic step backwards this week after Freedom of Information documents obtained by Friends of the Earth slammed claims that wind turbines are bad for local residents’ health. The... 
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23 January 2012 – New York’s city zoning comes in for an entertaining analysis in this article by Julie V Iovine from The Wall Street JournaI that shows that NSW is not the only state to suffer from frustrating zoning laws.  Read More >... 
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17 January 2012 – A report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance shows a 36 per cent surge in total investment in solar technology in 2011 to $US136.6 billion, nearly double the $US74.9 billion investment in wind power, which was down 17 per cent on the previous... 
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By Alan Pears 15 December 2011 – What is “conservative” when it comes to energy policy? As energy expert Ian Dunlop pointed out at a recent Climate Alliance conference, humans are investing billions of dollars in exploration for more fossil fuels,... 
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26 May 2011 – FAVOURITES: Peter Newman and Jeff Kenworthy of Curtin University’s Sustainability Policy Institute in Perth, Western Australia, say a new phenomenon is under way –  “peak car use”.* Peak car use suggests that we are witnessing... 
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19 December 2011 – Umow Lai has won the Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating excellence in sustainability award for its work on Melbourne’s Pixel building.  Read More > >  
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By Lyn Drummond 14 December 2011 – Jack Evans  Boat Harbour, Tweed Heads,  designed by ASPECT Studios in collaboration with Tweed Shire Council won the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects NSW medal as   “an outstanding example of transformation... 
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7 December 2011 – The response to the 2011 State of Australian Cities Report has been quite astonishing and led to the need for extra server capacity to handle demand for downloads, Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese said at the recent State of... 
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By Tina Perinotto 6 December 2011 – Cogent Energy has been confirmed to deliver the first of the City of Sydney’s ambitious low carbon energy systems. The news follows just weeks after the company said that at Dandenong in Melbourne’s... 
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6 December 2011 – Without clear guidelines liability for future climate change impacts may be unintentionally placed on the designer or planner of a project, a report on Australia’s major cities by Consult Australia has warned. Read More > >  
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By Scott Willey 30 November 2011 – Victoria’s Eco-Innovation Laboratory is pushing boundaries and taking a lead from the private sector. Experimentation brings uncertainty, and uncertainty, risk. Read More > >  
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By Lyn Drummond 28 November 2011 – Almost three years since being destroyed in the Victorian bush fires, the new timber Narbethong Community Hall was opened on Saturday, 26 November, by the Governor of Victoria, Alex Chernov. Read More >... 
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By Lyn Drummond 28 November 2011 – The wheel has turned more than 100 years to an electric car comeback in Sydney.  Read More > >  
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By Lyn Drummond 15 November 2011 – A website where potential developers can easily calculate their infrastructure commitments, bypassing the often complex paper work of local government has won Shoalhaven City Council the top prize at the Planning... 
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10 November 2011 – The City of Sydney last night officially became the first first council in Australia to achieve formal certification as carbon-neutral, under the National Carbon Offset Standard, introduced by the Australian Government last year. Climate... 
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By Lynne Blundell 8 December 2011 ­– DeisgnInc has won this year’s National Award for Sustainable Architecture in the Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards for its work on The University of Adelaide Innova21. Innova21,... 
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By Lynne Blundell 8 November 2011 –Sustainable design featured prominently in the Gold Coast Urban Design Awards this year, with two major projects that incorporate sustainable elements, Metricon Stadium and Broadwater Parklands, receiving top awards. The... 
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By Peter Droege 7 November 2011– From his forthcoming book chapter Droege, P. (2011). Beyond Sustainability: Architecture in the Renewable City. In Crysler, C. Greig, Stephen Cairns and Hilde Heynen. Eds. Sage Handbook of Architectural Theory.... 
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By Lynne Blundell 20 October 2011 – Quiet achiever Adelaide is up to its ears in strategic integrated design that could change the shape of the built environment nationally. Adelaide may seem an unlikely centre for an urban planning revolution. It... 
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By Ivan Rijavec 2 November 2011 – Melbourne architect and writer Ivan Rijavec will on Thursday launch a major and startling exhibition* that focuses a searing spotlight on how we view Australian urbanism. Read More > >  
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By Rebecca Pearce 22 July 2010 – FAVOURITES : Tackling the fundamental problem of carbon emissions from older style buildings is one of the key issues for the property industry. However, one Australian fund manager has proved that existing... 
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By Tina Perinotto 2 November 2011 – According to Queensland based AECOM managing director for water and infrastructure services Andrew Macleod there is a “desperate” need for skilled people across the entire engineering sector. Some of this... 
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By Tina Perinotto 26 October 2011 – A new wind turbine whose manufacturers claim is “almost silent” has been launched at Geelong in Victoria and is attracting significant attention, amid a recent backlash against wind power generation in... 
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By Lynne Blundell 25 October 2011 ­– Speeding up the development process by cutting down on friction and misunderstandings between stakeholders is the dream of developers, planners Read More > >  
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By Lynne Blundell 19 October 2011 – GPT’s 111 Eagle Street building in Brisbane was given an innovative façade treatment for its glass lift shaft to overcome issues of heat ¬– the first time the method has been used for lifts. Scheduled for... 
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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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6 September 2011 – Favourites – A new worldwide study of sustainable precincts commissioned by Sustainability Victoria has unearthed some of the drivers to the most successful sustainable communities Read More > >  
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