NOTES AND LISTINGS Latest Events and Photos - Green Cities 2010 opening cocktail photos Green Cities 2010 - the fringe event: Please send contributions to editorial@thefifthestate.com.au 16-19 March - Cannes France - The MIPIM Horizons 2010 international property sustainability conference, with speakers to include Boris Johnson, mayor of London, Sten Nordin, Mayor of Stockholm; Rafal ...Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto 18 December 2009 - Professor Rob Adams AM was this month awarded the prestigious Sidney Luker Memorial Medal for 2009 by the NSW Planning Institute of Australia at a ceremony on 10 December. Professor Adams, director, design and urban environment at the City of Melbourne, was recognised for the ...Read More > >

NABERS launched its shopping centres ratings tool on Tuesday 1 December 2009 at the Botanic Gardens restaurant, in Sydney. Hot on the heels of this will come a ratings tool for schools, hospitals and data centres. Scroll down for photos. Read More > >

3 December 2009 -Landcom's sustainability conference on 18 November has a dual role - as one of the regular thought-provoking conferences that the NSW government's urban land developer likes to create, and to launch a new sustainability tool,Precinx, which promises to provide a far more holistic view of a neighbourhood ...Read More > >

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 point in this cycle all life within the water ...Read More > >