Last week signaled a shift in the involvement of the health and medical community in Australia's unhealthy dependence on fossil fuels. Health leaders met at a national Roundtable in Canberra in early February 2013. They resolved to engage more directly with energy policy in this country, to see that the local and global implications of.

Lighting contributes approximately 15 to 25 % to business energy use and operating costs. The ever-increasing energy prices certainly have helped to highlight the need for businesses to reduce their costs of lighting. Energy use associated with lighting systems can be reduced by up to 82% if energy efficient lighting practices are adopted. Efficient lighting.

By Alex Kirby A leading UK university is launching a research programme to help businesses and policy-makers to protect themselves from investments which could be left worthless by climate change. LONDON, 15 February – The University of Oxford has begun a programme of research to identify high-carbon sectors and assets that could be devalued or written off.

General Motors doesn’t keep their energy reduction methods a secret. They've learned some lessons on how a company can cut its energy use. Read the top ten broad strategic energy tips written by Al Hildreth, the Energy Manager at General Motors for Green Biz.com General Motors.

According to Siobhan Toohill, a Green Building Council director and former sustainability head at Stockland, there’s a new stage of the sustainability revolution in the offing. The thinking right now is that the pioneering work, stage one, is done, and now it’s time for implementation, and perhaps less senior people can do that part of.

The “NABERS Energy for data centres” rating system, a world first, was been launched in Australia in February 2013. The rating system measures and scores the operational energy efficiency of IT equipment housed by a data centre. It measures processing and storage capacity and determines the corresponding energy star rating. It also assesses the efficiency of infrastructure.

A new study shows how simple behavior changes can drastically lower energy use in commercial buildings. FirstFuel, a Massachusetts-based company that analyses energy consumption in buildings, remotely examined utility data for 60 million square feet of commercial buildings across the U.S. It found that slightly more than half of energy efficiency opportunities could be realised.

This transformational program by Australian Catholic University is preparation for the business world of the future, encouraging innovation from a place of insight, in a collaborative environment that nurtures entrepreneurial flair. Program content is relevant to a wide range of industry sectors and focuses on the practical, enduring and innovative approaches to becoming a highperformance.