The Western Sydney council of Hills Shire is slowly waving goodbye to single use plastics by eliminating them from council buildings and venues.
Roundup: Famous faces help with The New Jones, on the fight for meat and new refrigerants
Throughout the pandemic, sustainability edge-pushers, The New Joneses have wasted no time continuing their good work. The team’s new digi-series, which was ambitiously crafted throughout COVID-19 and is set to launch next month, features a swag of famous Australians in-the-know about low-impact living.
Talk is cheap, but buying green products apparently is not
A recent study by online market research firm Dynata found that 67 per cent of Australians actively choose to buy products from companies that are environmentally responsible.
Roundup: How much hot air your council emits, and other stories
Not hot air, as such, but carbon dioxide: the Snapshot Climate Tool, developed by Ironbark Sustainability and Beyond Zero Emissions has been providing greenhouse gas emissions for every council area in Australia since 2019.
15 expert tips to make your business more sustainable in 2021
In last month’s Grow with Purpose Summit, the organiser Sara Redmond-Neal asked each speaker for their top tip or number one piece of advice for small businesses looking to be more sustainable in 2021.
Roundup: Gin distilled by the sun, reuseable beer cups, and beer to put in them
Guilt-free G&T It’s been all success over at Four Pillars gin distillery, winning the award for World’s Best Signature Botanical Gin at the 2021 World Gin Awards for its Olive Leaf Gin, and unveiling its new 65.88 kW rooftop solar farm. Four Pillars’ solar rooftop, on its Healesville distillery, was designed by Cherry Energy Solutions…
Eclipse Passive House: Get your Passive House, have cake, and it eat too…
If you’ve fallen head-over-heels for the low bills and unbeatable comfort of Passive House but concerned about the challenge and expense of this precise construction method, then Eclipse Passive House is your solution.
The Green List: What’s new in sustainable consumer land
Fewer Farts from Fonterra Farms New Zealand agricultural co-operative, Fonterra, has collaborated with Royal DSM to produce and test a food additive for ruminants that consistently reduces the methane emitted by cows by over 30 per cent. Just a quarter teaspoon of Bovaer for each animal every day is all it takes. Given that agricultural…
TGL Trends: Prepare to be BAMBOOzled by bamboo, pineapple and algae
So much sustainability in one shoe If you wear clothes or sleep on sheets you probably recognise the silky breathability of bamboo fabric. Now, New Zealand shoemaker, YY Nation has taken the sustainable fashion game up a notch with an Indiegogo campaign to make sneakers made from bamboo, pineapple leather, algae foams and merino wool.…