By Tina Perinotto REPORT – 2 March 2010 – Less than 200 corporation operating in Australia account for a whopping 30 per cent of total greenhouse emissions and 44 per cent of all energy related emissions. And of those, only 20 companies are... 
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By Michael Mobbs 25 February 2010 – Councils are the biggest obstacle preventing us from living sustainably. They design, build and maintain the roads; they control most development. But they are creatures spawned by state and federal governments... 
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By Michael Mobbs - 8 February 2010 – The waste and pollution from 26,000 gas and coal drills holes is polluting the rivers in the Murray Darling system. Miners are drilling 26,000 exploratory holes to assess how much coal and gas there is to mine... 
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– By Brian Moore - FAVOURITES – 27 July 2009 – Sustainability is at the forefront of every significant commercial development. Building owners understand only too well that there is no point building projects for the future using... 
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COP-15 – the conference is over, and so is a lot of good will. Here are some of the reactions: Australian Conservation Foundation, executive director Don Henry: “Strong national laws to cut greenhouse pollution and grow clean energy jobs are... 
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by Jeff Angel 17 December 2009 -Price rises for electricity are attracting headlines at the moment for all the wrong reasons.Erroneous reports of hugely inflated power bills as a result of the Emission Trading Scheme overlook one important point: the... 
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From Senator Christine Milne – 15 December 2009 – As we head into the final frantic days of Copenhagen, all the work has boiled down to draft negotiating texts for the two streams of negotiations – the Kyoto stream and the non-Kyoto... 
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COP 15 – 15 December 2009 – Giles Parkinson, writing in Business Spectator today said Climate Change Minister Penny Wong “pretty much told the audience what they wanted to hear, saying that the switch to clean energy might not have been... 
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By Andrew Pettifer FAVOURITES – 20 June 2009 - Fans of Dr Seuss who have looked past the Cat in the Hat may be familiar with the story of the inept Sneetches and the competitive instincts aroused between those with “stars upon thars”  and... 
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BRIEF: 1 December 2009 - Clean Up Australia Chairman and Founder Ian Kiernan yesterday (10 December 2009) joined Auburn and Parramatta City Councils on Sydney’s west for the launch of Streamline, a new sustainability initiative targeting the business... 
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By Lynne Blundell 30 November 2009 – There has been a battle going on. It is a battle between sections of the forestry industry and the Green Building Council of Australia and so far it has taken place behind closed doors. But it is gathering... 
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By Tina Perinotto So 42 to 41: The vote that this morning that ensconced Tony Abbott as leader of the Opposition against Malcolm Turnbull and completed the rent that will drive Australia into two camps, divided along climate lines. How deep and divisive... 
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By Professor Ralph Horne, Director of the Centre for Design at RMIT - FAVOURITES – 21 June 2009 – The bushfires in Victoria are tangible evidence of the sort of extreme weather events climate scientists have been predicting and they underline... 
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13 October 2009 – Environment Minister, Peter Garrett yesterday outlined the shape of the mandatory disclosure rules for commercial buildings. From July next year, building owners will be required to provide up-to-date energy efficiency information... 
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Producing a single, accurate digital map of proposed urban developments requires collaboration on an unprecedented scale by Davina Jackson The Commonwealth Government is considering a proposal for two new national research co-ordination organisations... 
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Brief – 5 November 2009 - Local government councillors say there could be enough forward buying power for electricity from local government areas to fund a thermal solar plant. A unanimous resolution passed at the Local Government Association of... 
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By Lynne Blundell FAVOURITES: 5 November 2009 – The Southport Broadwater Parklands project may well be a blueprint for adaptive planning solutions to combat sea level rise and storm surge on our coastlines. It involved some creative methods, including... 
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- By Michael Mobbs - FAVOURITES – 1 October 2009 - No city can be sustainable until it is a “city of villages”. Only in a village can we walk to work, or buy and carry home our food. Only in a village can new businesses be easily... 
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The full title of the report on the crisis that awaits our coastal zones is Managing our coastal zone in a changing climate: the time to act is now. It has received huge media coverage. Click here to see the whole report.  
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BRIEF – 26 October 2009 - One in every two Australians want to switch to solar hot water in the next two years, according to a survey by Newspoll commissioned by solar hot water supplier Solarhart. Newspoll surveyed  1062 home owners aged 18 to... 
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There are critical issues to be faced by the meeting of the Environment Protection and Heritage Council in Perth on 5 November – not least the collapse of the valuable recycling industry and the scandal of our export of toxic rubber tyres to Asia,... 
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By Tina Perinotto A company that has pioneered low cost solar desalination systems for industry and the home is about to start production of the units by November and already has around 5000 units on order. Peter Johnstone, the inventor of the Carosell... 
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by Tina Perinotto UPDATED 19 October 2009 – Green group GetUp has raised $162,000 since last Monday (12 October 2009) to fund a television advertisement to counter the huge public relations campaign by the coal industry in federal marginal electorates. The... 
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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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By Tina Perinotto - 7 October 2009 – Australian ingenuity is now officially on a global roll.  Not only is the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd leading the world out of recession – apparently – and the Reserve Bank chief Glenn Stevens patting... 
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By Tina Perinotto Green groups today launched yet another desperate salvage attempt on the flawed and increasingly leaky carbon pollution reduction scheme in the hope that it can provide some actual climate benefits. The Total Environment Centre, CHOICE,... 
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by Lynne Blundell The federal government this week announced the next step in its plan to overhaul Australia’s energy grid, which it says will reduce home energy bills, reduce carbon pollution and help tackle climate change. But, while green groups... 
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By Lynne Blundell Christine Milne has no time for prevarication and resistance to change. And she takes exception to what she sees as the federal government’s abundance of both. She is not alone. Those who voted for the Rudd government in 2007... 
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As the era of carbon trading draws near, a new guide has been developed to help companies manage the financial and reporting impacts of carbon emissions. The guide, Managing Financial Impacts and Reporting of Carbon Emissions – A Guide for CFOs,... 
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By Tina Perinotto Last summer 374 people died in Victoria, almost certainly because of heat stress, more than double those who died in the tragic bushfires of 7 February. This year Melbourne has its hottest day on record with a temperature of 46.4C and... 
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