By Lyn Drummond 13 July 2011– Pacific Pyrolysis, an award winning  NSW company that converts organic waste to energy and bichar is  primed  to take advantage of expanding market interest in low emissions technology, its directors say. Slow-pyrolysis... 
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By Lyn Drummond 21 April 2011 – Ponder these questions with the Eco Innovators sustainability quiz for iPods, iPhones and iPads. The Eco Innovators app is a quiz designed to test general environmental knowledge by navigating through three rounds of... 
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By Lynne Blundell 8 March 2011 – This was the year of the revamp for Green Cities. And the annual conference, jointly organised by the Green Building Council of Australia and the Property Council of Australia, was much better for the makeover. With... 
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11 March 2011 – Updated 7 April 2011 – The bar for sustainable construction has just been raised. Australia now has the first scientifically reliable and independently validated database for life cycle assessment of building products and its developers... 
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16 February 2011 – Lloyd Alter, writing in Treehugger asks an increasingly common question in an article it posted this week: what is a green building? Does inclusion of a feature such as green roof qualify? What if the building required intensive excavation... 
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By Tina Perinotto 4 February 2011 – The Australian property industry has the power to radically transform itself and society, both here and overseas, says leading sustainability design consultant, Simon Wild. The key to its success lies in industry... 
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By Lynne Blundell FAVOURITES – 15 April 2010 -Susan Roaf doesn’t have much time for architects. She thinks that most are little more than “building hairdressers” and she accuses the profession of undermining the fight against climate change. Roaf,... 
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FAVOURITES: 22 October 2009 – From Prospect magazine – If stabilising climate change means changing human behaviour – such as making the boring task of saving energy seem exciting and worthwhile – then it’s time to start understanding... 
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By Liz Morgan FAVOURTIES 16 July 2009 -Let me ask you a question: what do you think is the best way to help tackle global warming? It can be a behavioural or technological/scientific solution; your imagination is the sole limiting factor. It’s... 
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From Celsias New Zealand – 26 May 2010 – Keynote speakers during the first morning’s proceedings at the Sustainable Build Conference at Te Papa, Wellington have painted a dramatic picture of the daunting challenges facing the sector with... 
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Thanks to Celsias Weekly for the tip!  
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By Michael Kiely, Carbon Farmers of Australia Cities in Danger 3 July 2009 – FAVOURITES: No city in the world has been built to withstand extreme weather events predicted by Climate Change scientists. But there will be more of them and they will... 
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By Liz Morgan Could this be the Singapore of the future? Maybe. The illustrations here present a vision for a sustainable Singapore by 2050, when all the island-state’s needs are met within its borders: food, energy, waste disposal, recreation,... 
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FAVOURITES: 22 October 2009 – From Prospect magazine – If stabilising climate change means changing human behaviour – such as making the boring task of saving energy seem exciting and worthwhile – then it’s time to start understanding... 
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By Liz Morgan Could this be the Singapore of the future? Maybe. The illustrations here present a vision for a sustainable Singapore by 2050, when all the island-state’s needs are met within its borders: food, energy, waste disposal, recreation,... 
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INSTALLATION – 8 October 2009 – “Today 2/6/09 it was reported that the oceans are becoming more acidic. This is yet another in a series of markers on the road to irreversible damage of our environment. “When the oceans reach a certain... 
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MOPOKE – A series on habitat by Liz Morgan FAVOURITES – 6 April 2009 - “When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in... 
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By Liz Morgan Let me ask you a question: what do you think is the best way to help tackle global warming? It can be a behavioural or technological/scientific solution; your imagination is the sole limiting factor. It’s a really worthwhile question... 
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