8 July 2011 – The Greens have claimed victory in the fight for a new independent authority to manage $3.2 billion of renewable energy funding in “an effective and coordinated manner” announced by the federal government today. “As part... 
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By Tina Perinotto 7 July 2011 – CB Richard Ellis has claimed has offset its greenhouse gas emissions for the entire Australian operations, making it “the first commercial real estate services firm in Australia to be certified under the Australian... 
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By Tina Perinotto 7 July 2011 – Japanese based sustainable residential developer Sekisui House has jumped into the central Sydney housing market selecting Frasers Property’s high profile and sustainably ambitious project at Broadway... 
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7 July 2011 – You can see the factory through a web-cam on a live feed. It’s the latest place to order your zero carbon home, a pre-fab personalised dwelling for the low carbon economy, according to a posting from Springwise “The E-Cube... 
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5 July 2011 – Highlights of the week: The federal government promises the carbon package by the weekend; the Green Building Council’s new paper on the carbon price says, yes, we support it but here’s a long list of where it will hurt... 
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By Tina Perinotto 5 July – Sustainability Victoria on Friday, 1 July,  took its last submission for a major review that will determine its fate. Fears are rife among its supporters that the government will do what it mooted before the election and... 
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6 July 2011 – The new national president of the Australian Institute of Architects, Brian Zulaikha  has called for a government architect position to be established in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.The Sydney-based architect, who is... 
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By Tina Perinotto 30 June 2011 – The Green Building Council of Australia supports a carbon price but it’s going to hurt. In a new report this week detailing the likely impacts of a carbon price and eventually an emissions trading system the GBCA... 
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By Tina Perinotto 4 July 2011 – Landcom has teamed with Clarendon Homes to create a sustainable display home range at The Ponds in Sydney’s north-west. It’s a move that’s small to start with, Read More > >  
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5 July 2011 – BVN Architecture has won this year’s top award, the Sulman Award, at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2011 NSW Architecture Awards for its Brain and Mind Research Institute  – Youth Mental Health Building. Read More >... 
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By Tina Perinotto 30 June 2011 – “It’s about time we realised the limitations of using the atmosphere as a tip,” said GPT’s Bruce Precious on the launch today (Thursday 30 June) of a new coalition Read More > >  
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30 June 2011 – The New York Times says European cities are turning hostile to cars. And the US based Treehugger has run a story  the research by Peter Newman and Peter Kenworthy on “Peak Car Use”, that remains on our No 1 Top Hits for... 
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By Lynne Blundell 10 June 2011 –Australia is leading the world in the accelerating use of carbon and in carbon emissions and is currently about 44 or 45 per cent above the 1990 level, while Europe is moving in the opposite direction. Read More... 
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29 June 2011 – While Australians still want to own their own home and block they will settle for units or townhouses and are more resigned to renting, according to recent studies from research company, Ipsos and  the Grattan Institute. The Being... 
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By Tina Perinotto 29 June 2011 – Shooting camels, burning savannah in special mosaic formations and capturing methane gasses from pig manure to make energy are just some of the methodologies under consideration  before the federal government’s... 
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27 June 2011 – Johnathan Fahey at the Huffpost Green has a story to warm the hearts of all survival loving people everywhere, an initiative by Google to pay for solar power to be installed which homeowners sign up for at a cost lower than that of the... 
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28 June 2011 – Melbourne’s AAMI Park by Cox Architecture has won three of the top Victorian Architecture Awards. AAMI Park won the Victorian Architecture Medal, The Melbourne Prize and the William Wardell Award for Public Architecture. The structure... 
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27 June 2011 – Meteorologist Jeff Masters of internet weather service wundergound.com says The astonishing number of weather disasters and unprecedented wild swings in Earth’s atmospheric circulation were like nothing he’s even seen in... 
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What we need is very fast train to more density and more detail 24 June 2011 – There was bad weather, ash clouds and no planes, but still 120 people managed to get to the Built Environment Meets Parliament “annual conversation” in Canberra... 
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By Lynne Blundell 23 June 2011 – It is time to overhaul the way we plan cities so that social equity and community wellbeing, rather than economic growth, is the driving force behind planning decisions. That was a key message from speakers at Landcom’s... 
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By Tina Perinotto 23 June 2011 – Blackwater recycling and trigeneration plants are all very well, but what tenants want to know is will the building help make their tenants happier and more productive? More specifically, does it have as close to possible... 
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By Lyn Drummond 22 June 2011 – New research has shown that cutting greenhouse gas emissions from Sydney office buildings can also help reduce the pressure on electricity supply infrastructure citywide. The findings are in a report by Jesse Steinfeld,... 
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22 June 2011 – Cox Rayner A fully integrated mixed use development near the Brisbane CBD has taken the top award for urban design in Australia. The $300 million SW1 South Bank Urban Village developed by South Bank Corporation and Cox Rayner Architects... 
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By Margaret Simons, From Inside Story, 21 June 2011 – When it rains Australia’s big cities break. The traffic banks up. The air thickens. The stormwater drains, built decades ago and hardly thought of since, cease to drain. The work–life balance... 
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21 June 2011 – A Hobart high school has won top honours at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2011 Tasmanian Architecture Awards for what the jury described as a “sensitive and bold” work. Ogilvie High School’s Student Learning Centre... 
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21 June 2011 –Debate is heightening on the Treehugger website about whether the 2012 London Olympic basketball venue is the ugliest building yet. One subscriber, Lloyd Alter of the company, Design and Architecture, describes the venue as, “looking... 
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17 June 2011 – The federal government has released specific details of expected climate change impacts for Australia’s states and territories in a report, Climate Change Potential Impacts and Costs. Following are highlights from the report. The... 
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By Tina Perinotto 1 July 2011 – More than 250 influential property investors and advisors turned out to Tuesday morning’s breakfast presentation at The Establishment in Sydney to hear the PCA/IPD Australian Property Index focus in detail on... 
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15 June 2011 – A greenhouse gas calculator has been designed for householders which assesses emissions impact on a range of activities from transport and shopping to heating and cooling. The Australian Greenhouse Calculator is a program devised by the... 
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By Tina Perinotto Greg Paramor might well be known as one of property’s original Midas men. He has founded a string of successful property companies – Growth Equities Mutual, Paladin and James Fielding and headed the giant Mirvac for four years until... 
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