Energy efficiency: Tenant's Guide to Green Leases and Green Lease Handbook

As part of the National Strategy on Energy Efficiency, which is overseen by the Council of Australian Governments, the Tenant's Guide to Green Leases and the Green Lease Handbook were developed to encourage the uptake of Green Leases in private leasing arrangements. The Tenant's Guide.

Australian Energy Market Operator says emissions are falling

Emissions have fallen at the national level since the introduction of the carbon price but the reasons behind the fall go beyond the carbon price itself. The Australian Energy Market Operator has provided some data and other players such as Treasury are providing analysis but some details as.

Solar Cities 2012, 22 – 24 October 2012 — Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Queensland

This event will share the findings from the Federal Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency’s Solar Cities Program. The event will provide insight into the key successes of the various cities and lessons learned in regards to energy generation, demand.

The reasons for electrity price rises

Big Switch Projects recently conducted a study on the impact of carbon price on business power bills across Australia. The project found that the carbon price was not the main reason for modest increases. Read the story on the website of the Read more

Training in energy auditing

With the Implementation of the Carbon tax and rising energy costs, the demand for energy efficiency and the minimisation of waste, has become an integral part to improve operational and financial performance of businesses by mitigating against energy risks including price increases and exposure to a carbon price. So Independent Inspections is delivering.

Going beyond zero emissions to net positive sustainability

Excerpt from the Fifth Estate: According to Birkeland sustainability has been corralled by everything that created the problem in the first place: payback periods, costs, a paradigm focused on negatives, and that the best we can do is to minimise these by concepts such as zero carbon. “You can’t.

Ngaire McGaw, has been honoured as a global leader in the field of sustainability. She is listed alongside Tim Flannery, Professor Ian Lowe, Nicholas Stern and David Suzuki. This is the second 100 Global Sustain Ability Leaders list, produced by Ken Hickson, CEO of Sustain Ability Showcase Asia and ABC Carbon. The list identifies and.

Victorian Government radical energy retrofit

Quietly, while hardly anyone was looking, the Victorian government has pushed through one of the most radical energy efficiency programs in Australia’s history. The big question is, why isn’t every government in the country doing the same? Under the Victorian program, taxpayers will save around $1 billion in energy bills for their.

In a recent study, researchers from Green Budget Germany (GBG) took a closer look at these hidden costs, in order to get a better idea of electricity’s true cost. Their new research calculated the health and environmental expenses related to various currently-available energy sources. According to that research, the cheapest energy sources in the world.