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TGL News: Enough plastic to wrap around the world 1.5 times
Exciting announcements from Planet Ark Power, GECA and the Collaborative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living, as well as a cool project giving a second life to EV batteries, an e-waste design challenge with $20,000 prize money and more.
How food can put health and sustainability on one plate
The Green List spoke to an environmental engineer turned cookbook author about simple changes we can make to our diet to improve health and wellbeing and help tackle climate change.
Energetics calls for action reaching further than electricity
Decarbonising Australia’s electricity sector alone won’t offset the country’s rising emissions, according to new insights released by Energetics.
TGL News: Cycling for youth homelessness, new waste guidance for the construction industry and an international merger
Latest news from thinkstep, Energetics, Built., the NSW Environment Protection Authority and much more.
Property Industry Foundation calls for donations for Brisbane homeless youth facility
The Property Industry Foundation (PIF) is seeking in-kind donations to build a $2.5 million 12-bed facility for homeless and at-risk youth in Brisbane’s inner-north.
What Australians really think about climate change
Solar the preferred energy source and in Queensland majority wants coal fired power station phase out – , here’s what we’ve learned from the Australia Institute’s 2019 Climate of the Nation report.
TGL News: the climate strike list grows and doors open for sustainability
This week we welcomed RePlated to The Green List. Founder Naomi Tarszisz wants to make reusable meal containers as ubiquitous as their coffee cup cousins. She founded RePlated to do just that, and has a convenient formula in mind to get people using them. We wrote about some of the amazing projects that earned a share of…
Five amazing abodes to check out for Sustainable House Day
Sustainable House Day is coming up and with it the doors to more than 250 sustainable homes around Australia are flying open. This is your chance to see for yourself how low carbon designs and non toxic materials can make a house feel like home. To get you inspired we’ve rounded up five interesting homes…
Retail investors, consumers want ethics over returns
The majority of Australian retail investors would be willing to see lower returns if the companies they invested in always behaved ethically, a recent report has found. The report, conducted by KPMG, surveyed 1510 Australian retail shareholders and found transparency and honesty to be one of the most sought after factors when considering which companies…