SolarVille is a prototype neighbourhood that combines solar energy and blockchain technology to explore how communities of households could create their own renewable energy network and trade their excess energy directly at below market price. 

Supermarkets are a ubiquitous fact of urban life, despite the rise of farmers markets, boutique providores and online shopping. 

Online shopping was meant to save on carbon emissions. Fewer cars driving to energy-sucking stores that send copious amounts of material to landfill with every display change. But with a…

As a society we are becoming more switched on to the social and environmental impacts of our consumer choices. Recent studies have highlighted the way this has directly impacted the decisions of corporations both big and small, driving up their focus on sustainability.

Shopping centres may have fallen upon harder times thanks to online retailing but perhaps this speed bump can serve as an opportunity to rethink these giant structures and make them…

Melissa Schulz from Vicinity Centres on some ambitious sustainability goals that are putting Vicinity at the head of the pack.

Riding on the momentum of Australia’s anti-waste movement, IKEA is now letting its Sydney customers return their unwanted furniture and goods to the Tempe store in exchange for a voucher to spend in-store.

Frasers Property Australia’s ambitious plan to create the world’s most sustainable shopping centre has received planning approval from Melbourne’s Whitehorse City Council.

Vicinity Centres has entered the rooftop solar fray, announcing what is believed to be the largest investment in rooftop solar in the retail space.

Ask planning and property industry analyst Brian Haratsis what’s in store for 2018 and then brace yourself.

The Clean Energy Finance Corporation’s first major foray into the retail sector will see a massive $200 million invested into institutional fund manager QIC’s Global Real Estate flagship Shopping Centre Fund (QSCF).

The City of Melbourne is looking for companies to inhabit a 900-square-metre greenhouse suspended nine metres above a temporary market pavilion.

Ahead of our Visit Tomorrowland event in Sydney on 19 September, one of our speakers – Frasers Property Australia’s executive general manager, retail, Peri Macdonald – gives us the low-down on the cutting-edge Living Building Challenge retail centre.

Stockland is providing one more reason to make the transition to an electric vehicle, offering free charging for Tesla vehicles at 31 shopping centres across the country.

Brisbane eco business Biome has become the first Australian retailer to be awarded international B Corporation certification for its success in operating a business with high social and environmental standards.…