Announcing the release of two new PPA resources live on the BRC-A Resource Library
We're excited to announce that City of Sydney and City of Adelaide have a number of grants available for signatories in these LGA's.
The CitySwitch Green Office program has surpassed four million square metres of office space, as ANZ signs on 833 Collins Street in Melbourne.
From blend-your-own smoothie bikes to calorie-free cupcakes, the Museum of Futures to a mind-mapping session, the Better Buildings Cup launched with a flurry of activity recently.
Powering Australia from 100% renewable energy is no longer ambitious. We have more sun, wind and hydro resources than coal, gas and oil combined. And with vision and ambition, we can become the world’s renewable energy superpower.
Industry leaders from the hospitality, events and property sectors came together to sign up to the Sydney Single-use Pledge.
Climate-KIC Australia today launched the Australian 2019 edition of the world’s largest green business ideas competition, ClimateLaunchpad.
If there was one lesson to take away from this year’s CitySwitch awards it is that people power is unstoppable.
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Source: The Fifth Estate
This latest chapter is a massive wake up call to the myth that all things new and shiny are good. It lifts the veil on one of the true scandals of the property world – one of waste and landfill, leaving a trail of toxic chemicals, expense and depleted resources in its wake.
Meet the people who want to bring a cool rational eye to this process and reinvent it to make sense, in better materials, recycling, better leasing practices and lower costs. All those things that add up to sustainable practice.
The Abbott government has fulfilled its threat to destroy or severely slash every climate, sustainable, clean energy, environmental and social program it can manage. For the sustainable built environment sector and its related areas the news is severe and promises to be a foretaste of what’s to come as a new agenda to support the fossil fuel industry as long as possible becomes more deeply entrenched.
WT Sustainability already had Australia’s most energy-efficient office fitout, yet the company still found ways to reduce power use by a further 13 per cent. Director, Steve Hennessy explained to The Fifth Estate that the savings were made through discernment in the initial fitout that reduced both fitout costs and energy use and a series of fine-tuning that further improved energy performance, ...
Source: The Fifth Estate Westpac has been named the most sustainable company in the world in the 2014 Global 100 Index, a ranking of the top sustainable companies announced today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Concerns have been raised, however, that the organisation continues to lend to coal and gas projects. Westpac last year ranked 10th, and has moved up the listing with some strong sustainability achievements for 2013, ...
Source: The Fifth Estate How hard can it be to get model lease clauses agreed for green leases? Don’t ask. Just be grateful that some valiant people have put in the hard yards and finally the industry has a great Christmas present and one that will endure in the years ahead. In this Chapter 5 of our Tenants and Landlords Guide to Happiness Lynne Blundell takes us through the issues that our legal eagles and owners and tenants ...
Source: The Fifth Estate Fujitsu’s Noble Park data centre is the first to have been certified under the NABERS Energy for data centres tool, which was launched in February. The data centre received a 4 stars on the 6 star scale, choosing an Infrastructure rating, which assesses the efficiency of the building services, such as cooling and lighting.
The NSW government has released a guide and tool so businesses can determine whether a cogeneration or trigeneration system is financially and technically viable. Launching the guide, NSW Environment Minister Robyn Parker said the Energy Saver Cogeneration feasibility guide was the first major project delivered under the Government’s Energy Efficiency Action Plan, which has a goal to save 16,000 gigawatt-hours of energy a ...
Source: EEX.gov.au Companies that take energy efficiency seriously save up to three times the energy of those that don’t. That’s a finding of ClimateWorks Australia’s ‘Special report on factors influencing large industrial energy efficiency’. In this third and final article on the reports, we look at the special report, a snapshot of 47 large energy users on what motivates them to take up energy efficiency activities – and what holds them back. Energy, sustainability and site managers were interviewed on their ...
Source: Lighting Council Australia
Light emitting diode, or LED, products are rapidly becoming useful alternatives to traditional light sources, but buyers need to do their homework before investing in them because few have undergone rigorous testing in real-life settings over a prolonged period of time, due to their comparatively early stage of development. There is also a wide variation in product quality and how effectively they may light a space. Some lower ...
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