Eco-friendly concrete – reforming a leading carbon culprit

Concrete is the major source of construction-related carbon emissions, but researchers are working to make it more environmentally friendly.

18 May, 2023

15 councils now certified carbon neutral under climate initiative

Logan City Council is the latest council to receive carbon neutral certification under the Climate Active initiative.

29 January, 2023

Why a bullet train is a bad idea

Is it time for Australia to drop its obsession with high speed trains?

28 May, 2020

Call for action on sustainable homes

Governments need to tap into public desire for sustainable homes, a report says.

15 July, 2019

The pods curbing London’s air pollution

London has deployed an army of pollution-monitoring pods around the city as part of its battle to improve air quality.

2 May, 2019

Zero-debt fetish flushes away infrastructure efficiency savings: Clean Energy Finance Corporation

Operating costs a drag on balance sheets.

16 June, 2016

Solar battery storage a household budget no-brainer by 2020

Smaller units flick economic switch.

16 November, 2015

City of Sydney demands Trigeneration rules be relaxed

By Julian Bajkowski The City of Sydney is again ramping up its promotion of trigeneration as a viable alternative means of producing energy in the heart of the city. Having parked a wider electricity overhaul critics claimed would cost up to $5 billion, the CBD council is now pushing the New South Wales Parliament to […]

22 October, 2013

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 reported, a move that could reshape the economics of the financially cheap fuel. Minister for Climate Change, Industry and Innovation, Greg Combet has released a […]

16 April, 2013

Garnaut to update climate change review

The Australian Government has released the terms of reference commissioning Professor Ross Garnaut to update his 2008 Garnaut Climate Change Review. Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Greg Combet, said the review update delivers on the commitment made to the Member for New England, Tony Windsor, following the Federal election. “The updated Garnaut review will […]

12 November, 2010

CSIRO unveils Australia’s first ‘zero emission’ house

The AusZEH demonstration house. Image: CSIRO. By Angela Dorizas Australia’s first zero emission house, situated in the Victorian community of Laurimar, will soon be put to the test by its new occupants. Designed and built by the CSIRO, the demonstration house has an eight-star energy-efficiency rating and includes off-the-shelf building and renewable energy-generation technologies and new future-ready energy management […]

4 May, 2010

Calls for organic waste policy

By Angela Dorizas The Federal Government needs to set a national target on organic waste recovery and rapidly increase greenhouse gas capture on landfill sites, according to the Waste Management Association of Australia (WMAA). Speaking at the Zero Waste Summit in Sydney yesterday, WMAA NSW president, Mike Ritchie, urged governments to develop policies that would […]

1 December, 2009

NSW leads on solar tariffs

By Staff Writer The New South Wales Government’s scheme to reward households for the solar energy they produce has been hailed as one of the most generous solar feed-in tarriffs in the country. Premier Nathan Rees said the NSW Solar Bonus Scheme would deliver the most generous payments to families in the country. “A gross scheme is […]

12 November, 2009

Include capital cities in Copenhagen agreement, say Mayors

By Angela Dorizas Capital city Lord Mayors have called on the Federal Government to include local government in the global Copenhagen agreement. In the lead up to the global climate summit in Copenhagen, the Council of Capital City Lord Mayors (CCLM) committed to collectively slashing greenhouse gas emissions by 57 megatonnes a year by 2020, which […]

5 November, 2009