City of Parramatta: The Project Officer – Environmental Outcomes

The Project Officer – Urban Heat will primarily focus on driving and delivering the City’s urban heat reduction actions.

Jobs news and our pick of the jobs.

The City is currently seeking two experienced managers to lead dynamic teams delivering our engagement in the business community.

The Northern Territory is embarking on a huge investment in solar energy but the government needs to reconsider its fossil fuel plans, and recognise the role its Indigenous people play in controlling carbon.

Cbus Property, ISPT Property, Fulton Hogan, RMIT University, Deakin University, Citywide Asphalt and Mondelez International have put a collective tender out to 16 energy retailers seeking a renewable energy Power Purchase Agreement.

Federal energy minister Angus Taylor has finally called the Council of Australian Governments Energy Council meeting this weekend. Let’s hope the meeting is not in vain.

How do we make sure our energy efficiency decisions reflect more than just how many watts were saved?

New report by JLL forecast continued coal-fired station closures and rising renewables, despite the gap in federal policy and grid stability.

In line with predictions, the fires are a major blow for the economy, and the scale of the damage is only now starting to become apparent. There is no doubt the news will get worse as the flow on impacts come to light, but for now here is what we know.

A new green home offered by Bank Australia will offer allow prospective home owners to secure discounted finance to build or buy a home with a 7-plus star rating under the Nationwide House Energy Rating Scheme (NatHERS).

Stories about Adani’s triumph, drought-stricken towns and people fleeing to Tasmania made The Fifth Estate’s list of the 10 most-read stories for 2019.

It was billed as the climate change election, but in the end, it was nothing like. The landslide victory for the Conservatives in the UK gives them the greatest majority since the days of Margaret Thatcher.

Tomorrowland19 – I, human: AMP Capital’s Quay Quarter Tower refurbishment in Sydney and a major water treatment plant in regional Victoria are among the sustainable projects that have tapped into Sustainable Australia Fund’s range of loans.

OXYGEN FILES: Amidst the smoke and fury of this summer’s bushfire catastrophe, there is a positive note – the growing recognition of the value of Aboriginal fire and landscape management practices. Key among the listeners is the artistic haven of the Bundanon Trust at Shoalhaven south of Sydney, which has embraced indigenous fire practices not long before it was threatened by fire early this month.

About a year ago I wrote in a leading planning and place-making journal in the UK a critique of the urban regeneration sector in the UK, of which I had…

Dear Scott Morrison, we told you well before Christmas you had the chance to be a superhero. To jump onto the world stage and claim leadership on a scale that no small-to-mid size country has seen before.

When Cobargo on the NSW South Coast is rebuilt after being smashed by bushfires on December 31, townspeople will want it to be as charming and attractive a place as it was previously – and they will want it to be better protected from future fires.

OXYGEN FILES: Usually in January, there are kids everywhere in my little Riverina town. Kids on scooters and bikes and skateboards. Kids at the local pool. Kids out with dogs and basketballs or playing a bit of hit-and-giggle at the town tennis court.

Most of the time we discuss climate change as affecting cities and the people who live in them. Less well known is that cities – specifically their planning and design – also create climate change through the urban heat island. Encouragingly, this means that cities can provide climate solutions. Why are we not discussing this?

Just days before my first child was born, I escaped apocalyptic scenes in Sydney to return home, with the country’s biggest city blanketed in thick red smoke from out-of-control bushfires.

In our obsession with newness, we can easily forget that the narrative of sustainability is not merely about technical longevity, but also about cultural sustainability, an expression of our city’s identity and thus a continuation of our collective memory of place.

When Cobargo on the NSW South Coast is rebuilt after being smashed by bushfires on December 31, townspeople will want it to be as charming and attractive a place as it was previously – and they will want it to be better protected from future fires.

NSW Building Commissioner David Chandler is making promises for change in 2020 that he intends to keep.

Many like to call themselves disruptors but Eat Like A Fish author Bren Smith is absolutely not the standard corporate disruptor-type who presents well in a suit.

It can be hard to feel hopeful about the future of life on earth some days, particularly in the current political climate in most English-speaking nations.

Our UK based correspondent David Thorpe has written what’s quickly gaining acclaim as a stunning book that offers a holistic solution to the sustainability crisis on our hands… not that we’re biased of course. Here’s our resident book reviewer Willow Aliento’s take.

Some books defy easy description or the usual glib reviewer phrases, and Problems and Where to Find them is just such a book.

Here’s our list of (mostly) relaxing yet educational books to pack into your suitcase this Christmas break. Happy reading.