The Sydney Morning Herald – by John Garnaut – 18 June 2010 – Sledgehammer policies to curb energy use and upgrade China’s economic structure pose a new short-term challenge to Australian mining industry profits.
Chinese leaders...
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By Andrew Starc
18 June 2010 - Investa has released its latest sustainability report, with findings from seven years of data revealing the energy and greenhouse emissions of the group’s tenants.
The sustainability report, Investa’s eighth, is...
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By Ché Wall
15 June 2010 – the Australian Prime Minister’s Task Group on Energy Efficiency wades through the 187 submissions it has received, it would do well to consider discussions in Paris last month about how best to measure and achieve...
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7 June 2010 – The Federal Government today announced that Newcastle would lead Australia’s Smart Grid ambitions with the country’s first commercial-scale demonstration project, led by winning bidder for the work, a consortium led by EnergyAustralia.
The...
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2 June 2010 - While Australia goes lily-livered on an emissions trading scheme, our New Zealand cousins —and the conservative party at that – is invoking a wartime effort to get its scheme across the line.
According to Celsias Weekly today Environment...
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By Ann Burns, head of utilities, Accenture Australia
FAVOURITES – 1 June 2010 – Smart meters are going in and smart grids are receiving government funding. But will consumers change their habits in the battle for energy efficiency? The latest...
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19 May 2010 – A confidential submission which has appeared on the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency website states that International Power says it will not accept any policy that requires the National Electricity Market to support...
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By Lynne Blundell
6 May 2010- Let’s face it energy efficiency is not sexy. Like electricity it’s a bit hard to get a handle on and it’s a pretty dull conversation starter. It’s even worse for politicians facing the great moral challenge of our...
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28 April 2010 – The Green Building Council of Australia today weighed into the chorus of disappointment at the Federal Government’s dropping of the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, saying the pressure was now on complementary measures...
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28 April 2010 – From Business Spectator - It may take until the next election to judge if the decision to abandon attempts to forge a sensible climate policy and a carbon price for another three years is sound politics.
But two things should already...
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By Andrew Starc
27 April 2010 – Green groups have reacted angrily to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s scrapping of the emissions trading scheme, at last until after 2012.
Australian Greens Deputy Leader Senator Christine Milne said the Prime Minister...
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The retail sector consumes 50 per cent of the commercial property sector’s share of energy. Now shopping centres, at least, will try to do something about that environmental profile.
by Lynne Blundell
FAVOURITES: 24 October 2010 – When it...
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By Lynne Blundell
14 April 2010 – There could be light at the end of the tunnel for cogeneration projects seeking co-operation from energy agencies. In a victory for precinct-style power generation, a proposed shared cogeneration project between...
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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...
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By Lynne Blundell
31 March 2010 – public discussion paper on the federal government’s proposed framework for setting energy efficiency standards for buildings has been released for public consultation.
The discussion paper presents the National...
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By Andrew Starc
31 March 2010 – Business and environment group leaders met at the “Doing Nothing Is Not An Option” event in Sydney yesterday to review the collapse of the carbon pollution reduction scheme and discuss how to manage risk in the...
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By Andrew Starc
31 March 2010 – The Victorian Government today announced a $500,000 boost to Melbourne City Council’s plans to retrofit more than two thirds of Melbourne’s commercial buildings as part of its “1200 Buildings” sustainability...
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By Andrew Starc
- 31 March 2010 – The formation of the Prime Minister’s Task Group on Energy Efficiency has been welcomed by environment and green groups for its promises of economic benefits and emissions reduction.
The Task Group, which will make...
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BRIEF – 30 March 2010 – Plans for the construction of one of the worlds largest solar plants in Victoria are back on track after technology innovation company Silex Systems took ownership of the solar power plant technologies of Solar Systems.
Silex...
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BRIEF – 30 March 2010 – The House of Representatives Primary Industries and Resources Committee has released a report addressing the challenges facing Australian farmers in adapting to the impacts of climate variability and climate change.
Entitled...
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by Damien Leclercq and Shannon Mason
FAVOURITES- 28 August 2009 - Small scale wind energy has recently gained a lot of interest, particularly in the urban context, due to the general drive for sustainability and the appeal of the technology. But...
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By Giles Parkinson
From The Spectator: 24 March 2010- The greatest worry for members of the Australian clean-tech community is not that they have already missed two or three opportunities to take the lead in low carbon technologies, it’s that that they...
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From The Economist – 20 March 2010 – In the 1990s cap-and-trade—the idea of reducing carbon-dioxide emissions by auctioning off a set number of pollution permits, which could then be traded in a market—was the darling of the green policy...
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By Tina Perinotto
16 March 2010 – Six key sectors of the Australian economy have the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 per cent by 2020 levels for the cost to householders of a cup of coffee, according to a new report released today....
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15 March – Case study: Saving energy is not normally linked to the start of the AFL season but that’s what the new redeveloped Gold Coast stadium – home of the appropriately named Gold Coast Suns – is all about.
The owner, Stadium Queensland,...
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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...
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By George Quezada & Anthony Szatow
4 November 2010 -Favourites: In this third and final article of the three part series, George Quezada and Anthony Szatow look deeper at what is needed to transform the energy sector and bring forward innovations...
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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...
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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...
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