Energy Efficiency – makes good business sense
Monday, December 26th, 2011
Tina Perinotto, 21st December 2011 Forget the feel good factors in energy efficiency or climate change. At the end of the day, according to green enthusiast Harry Chua, it’s the… ..more
Retrofitting could create 600,000 new jobs Nov 2011
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Retrofitting could create 600,000long-term green jobs and $400 billion in investment in US Australia has most mature retrofit market World Economic Forum report 15 November 2011 – A World Economic… ..more
Green buildings worth more
Friday, October 7th, 2011
By Tina Perinotto 4 August 2011 Berkeley and Maastricht universities’ academic Nils Kok arrived in Australia last week to confirm what every sane investor knew all along, that sustainable and… ..more
Food – can our cities ever be self-sustaining?
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Sue White 30 Aug 2011 “WE HAVE TWO SETS of needs as humans…sociability and sustenance,” says Carolyn Steel, author of Hungry City and lecturer at Cambridge University. “They are in… ..more
Powering down: has Australian electricity consumption hit its peak?
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
A number of recent reports have documented an unprecedented decline in electricity consumption. The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Research Economics, in its 2011 Energy Update, shows a decline of… ..more