By  Keith Orchison 13 January 2011 – From Business Spectator – A question mark hangs over the future of one of Australia’s largest power generators as we enter the new year and a new decade – and because of this there is also a query... 
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13 January 2011- Jerry Yudelson, leading US green building and sustainability consultant and a speaker at last year’s Green Cities 2010 conference in Melbourne has released a list of top worldwide green building trends for 2011. “What we’re... 
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By Lynne Blundell 530 Collins Street Melbourne 6 May 2010 – When GPT’s building at 530 Collins Street was coming up to 20 years old, the property group decided it was time for an upgrade with energy performance a key focus. Originally completed... 
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By Tina Perinotto 24 November 2010 – Gavin Gilchrist’s Big Switch Projects has increased staff levels this year after a moderate uptick in demand for energy audits following the introduction of  the mandatory disclosure regime. The requirements... 
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By Amy Kelly 15 December 2010 - Property Developer Stockland has won the inaugural national award for office energy efficiency after reducing carbon emissions by 800 tonnes a year and saving $90,000 in energy bills through the CitySwitch program. Stockland... 
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By Joel Quintal 2 November 2010 – The UK closely watches sustainability initiatives around the globe and is not shy about throwing its hat into the ring to try out something new. In the first instalment of a two-part series, Jones Lang LaSalle’s... 
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1 December 2010 - Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Greg Combet today announced that solar credits would be phased out a year ahead of schedule, partly because the cost of installing solar panels had dropped. Read More > >  
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By Tina Perinotto 14 October 2010 – Alfonso Ponce Alvarez was one of the speakers at the World Green Building Council Congress in Singapore in September.  He spoke with The Fifth Estate on his work with the United Nations to develop a common carbon... 
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By Tina Perinotto 26 November 2010 – The federal government’s Australian Carbon Trust on Friday announced funding and strategic partnerships that could leverage up to $300 million of energy and other efficiency measures for the property sector... 
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26 November 2010 – Business leaders meeting today in the first sitting of the  Business Roundtable on Climate Change said there was a need for a carbon price to support long-term investment. Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan and Minister for Climate... 
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29 November 2010 –The NSW government late last week passed legislation that will provide easier access to finance for building upgrades, with loans secured alongside council charges and ahead of mortgages along. The move which mirrors legislation... 
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24 November 2010 – The CitySwitch energy efficiency program has announced winners for its Signatory of the Year awards for Queensland, Western Australia the ACT. The ACT government also announced a new 50 per cent rebate for NABERS assessments for... 
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Case study: 11 November 2010 – HASSELL has won the prestigious World Architecture Festival’s Interiors and Fitout of the Year award for the ANZ Centre in Melbourne’s Docklands. The ANZ Centre, recently won the Emil Sodersten Award for Interior... 
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From the Green Building Council of Australia: 5 November 2010: The world is a step closer to a common carbon metric for buildings, with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change recognising the need for a unified approach to the reporting... 
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From the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency: 1 November 2010 – The Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Mark Dreyfus, today launched the Commercial Building Disclosure program which commences today.... 
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Warning: 30 October 2010 – It is now too late to avoid global warming of less than 2 per cent and too late to avoid “serious and pervasive ” climate change impacts that would “significantly disrupt the national economy”... 
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Favourites: 28 September 2010 -In this second article of a series of three, Anthony Szatow and George Quezada explore what new business models capable of realising value from distributed energy may look like. The final article will examine the conditions... 
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28 October 2010 – At yesterday’s annual sustainability forum held by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in Sydney, the audience heard that some residential real estate agents had noticed a price premium on house sales that had solar... 
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By Tina Perinotto Exclusive: 23 October 2010 – After an intense lobbying campaign Victorian property owners have won important concessions on how NABERS Energy rates their office buildings, bringing them in line with a national benchmark just ahead... 
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By Nicola Woodward FAVOURITES: ANALYSIS – 26 July 2010 – It isn’t every Monday you wake up to the fact that a Sunday press release by the incumbent Government in the run up to a general election contains a promising policy. Yesterday... 
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FAVOURITES – From The Atlantic – July/August 2009 – It feels like 1977 all over again: economy in the doldrums, crisis in the Middle East, and a charismatic new Democrat in the White House preaching the gospel of clean energy. Can Obama... 
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8 October 2010 – Following are highlights of reactions to the Report b the Prime Minister’s Task Group on Energy Efficiency The Greens: The Gillard government should move ahead immediately with energy efficiency policies which cut household... 
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By Tina Perinotto 23 September 2010 – Melbourne City Council may just have found the holy grail of how to fund retrofits in older buildings. In a breakthrough move Victoria has passed Australia’s first legislation to enable a municipal council... 
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Brief:  16 September 2010 - An Auspoll survey has shown that country people are more eager for large-scale development of clean energy than city people. According to the poll of 1500 people, 85 per cent of rural respondents and 82 per cent of urban respondents... 
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By Gary Wertheimer FAVOURITES – May 5 2010 – The Building Code of Australia 2010 has been in effect from 1 May. Section J, dealing with energy efficiency, has been updated but few people understand what is involved. The way buildings are... 
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7 September 2010 - In part one of a three part series, Anthony Szatow of the CSIRO presents the results of the three year Intelligent Grid Project, an investigation into how distributed energy can reduce both carbon emissions and energy costs. The Australian... 
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FAVOURITES – 13 July, 2010 - The number of rating tools, policies, reports, incentives and legal rulings on sustainable residential  development has proliferated in recent years. In this comprehensive work, legal firm Herbert Geer has created clear... 
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By Wendy Truong and Edie Mather 3 September 2010 – The success of the Federal Government’s Solar Bonus Scheme has seen over 30,000 households generating their own solar energy. Following is an outline of scheme and how it can benefit individual... 
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From The Guardian - 2 September 2010 – The world’s most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is “undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today” and “a challenge humanity must... 
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From Bloomberg – 19 August 2010 – Stuart Biggs reports: New Zealand’s sheep farmers are flocking to a government carbon trading program that pays more to plant trees than sell wool and mutton. The system, begun in 2008 and the only one of... 
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