It’s no longer just about saving the planet, sustainable buildings make clear business sense, a new report says.
The report, The Business Case for Green Building: A Review of the Costs and Benefits for Developers, Investors and Occupants, was released by the World Green Building Council and produced in partnership with PRP Environmental and sponsors.
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Cool Australia, an exciting Australian non-profit organisation, has just launched a new website that makes learning about sustainability about our environment easier than ever.
The website has an impressive range of free resources that are easy-to-use, and presented in a new format designed by teachers and students, for.
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Stories help us think about a sustainable future
By Steven Cork Many commentators have had a go at forecasting what Australia might be like in the future. Such exercises are valuable inputs to our thinking as individual, organisational or societal decision-makers. But those who guide the futures-thinking of organisations and communities have found the.
While supply chains are becoming highly sophisticated and vital to the competitiveness of many companies their interlinked, global nature also makes them increasingly vulnerable to a range of risks.
The Ripple Effect, a new Deloitte global survey of 600 executives from manufacturing and retail companies around the world, examines the growing problems associated with supply chain.
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Dr Geoffrey Wells from the University of South Australia, has edited a new book entitled Read more
February 2013 - The World Bank has released a 2.5 minute video to convey the messages behind their "Turn Down the Heat" report released in November 2012.
WASHINGTON, November 18, 2012 – The world is barreling down a path to heat up by 4 degrees at the end of the century.
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24 January 2013: AIRAH has released its discussion paper, Transition to low-emission HVAC&R : Issues and solutions, for public and industry review (later finalised in March 2013). The paper is available at the “Resources” section of the AIRAH website, www.airah.org.au, with comments due by 5pm, Friday.
Robert Tromop, a New Zealander who heads the energy efficiency unit at the International Energy Agengcy (IEA) in Paris, says energy efficiency requires an upfront investment of around half a trillion dollars a year - which ironically equates roughly to the IEA’s estimate of annual subsidies paid to the global fossil fuel industry.
Tromop concludes.
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A new collaborative network of health organisations has agreed to joint action to raise awareness of the adverse health effects of Australia’s current minerals and energy policy at a meeting in Canberra this week.
Hosted by five national health organisations, the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA), Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA), National Rural Health Alliance.
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By Jane Andrew, University of Sydney and Corinne Cortese, University of Wollongong
Five years ago, we really didn’t have a clue what an organisation’s carbon impact might look like, and few firms had any sort of carbon-oriented business plan. Now, the trend is to fill this gap by producing carbon reports.
But within this story.