Category: Sustainability

The real quality and performance of increasingly popular photovoltaic products is being exposed to sunlight to put under-performers in the shade.

Design standards and asset management plans will have to change with the weather say works experts.

Sydney’s Campbelltown City Council has taken on more clean and green biofuel garbage trucks as it tries to drive down both costs and carbon emissions.

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has flown to the United States to see first hand how a collaboration between the Queensland University of Technology and the California Institute of Technology can help mitigate and better manage natural disasters.

The NSW government has put money on the table to help overhaul waste management infrastructure and divert rubbish going to landfill.

The South Australian government has blown off critics of wind power after it approved the second largest turbine generation facility in Australia in a bid to boost Adelaide’s power supply and spin the city out of a manufacturing downturn.

By Professor Edward Blakely* The United States has dealt with more disasters in the last four years than any period in nearly a century. This path of destruction has been…

By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski There’s no shortage of awards and prizes for sustainability initiatives, but Sydney’s Randwick City Council has taken out top honours over its state local…

By Paul Hemsley City of Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore has moved to reduce the amount of drinking-quality water used by residents and workers in favour of using recycled stormwater…

By Paul Hemsley The Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) car fleet might have been one of the state’s biggest carbon emitters, but that hasn’t stopped the agency…