By Paul Hemsley The City of Melbourne has triumphed over New York and Berlin in worldwide contest for creating sustainability programs after the city’s submission won top honours for efforts…
Category: Sustainability
NSW sheds toxic light bulbs for LED across 41 councils
By Paul Hemsley The New South Wales government has revealed plans to replace existing mercury vapour streetlights with light emitting diode (LED) technology across 41 council areas in Sydney, the…
Toyota hybrids plug into Victorian GoGet trial
By Paul Hemsley Melbourne’s inner north is set to become a real-life car testing ground for innovative vehicle rental service GoGet Australia which has said it will to use four…
Taronga Zoo sustainability accolade roars for SITA
By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski Resource and waste management company SITA has collected a key environmental sustainability award for tailoring a waste management program for Sydney’s Taronga Zoo to…
Mildura’s showcase solar plant fires up
By Paul Hemsley The Victorian Government has officially opened the Mildura solar power plant, which is expected to send electricity to 500 homes and with further investment from the state…
Bundaberg plucks sustainability award from flood clean-up
By Paul Hemsley They say that necessity is the mother of invention, however Queensland’s Bundaberg Regional Council has gone one step further after the plucky local government salvaged the state’s…
Melbourne construction standards get greener
By Paul Hemsley The City of Melbourne has upped its efforts to become more environmentally sustainable by pledging an overhaul of building standards for energy, water and waste efficiency for…
Combet moves to measure fugitive CSG
By Julian Bajkowski The Federal Government has moved to start overhauling the way greenhouse gasses released into the atmosphere from highly controversial coal seam gas (CSG) sites are measured and…
NSW mayors dispatched to US
By Paul Hemsley Mayors from New South Wales will meet with leading American experts in sustainable urban design and planning from this week to thrash out how they can embed…
Defence tenders for Green Fleet tow trucks
By Paul Hemsley The Joint Logistics Command branch of the Department of Defence will has said it will go to market for a contractor to remove military vehicles that break…