Waiting until tenants complain, equipment breaks down or energy bills eat into your bottom line before you decide on asset improvements is no way to manage a building, especially when there are better alternatives available.

Ironbark Sustainability – a growing consultancy with staff located around the country says COVID is being seen as an opportunity to reduce costs and emissions by many local governments, both in their operations and into the wider community.

What’s an ecovillage? And what do they look like? Here The Green List gives a run down of five of the most interesting eco villages around the world including two in Australia.