The ACT Container Deposit Scheme is celebrating its success for the fourth year running. Thanks to the tremendous effort of the community, over 181 million containers have been returned through the scheme’s network of return points – that’s more than $18 million in refunds back in the hands of the community.
Explainer: is your new home net zero?
Building a new home and want to make sure it’s operationally net zero?
Let’s talk about food waste
Enrich360, founded by Yarra Valley Farms founder Bill Kollatos, creates compost and fertiliser from restaurants and catering food waste. His company utilises technology from South Korea (which has banned food waste in landfill) to reduce food waste volumes by up to 93 per cent.
Energetics head of strategy says demand for sustainability consultants will only rise
As both government regulations and voluntary emissions reductions programs are constantly in flux, it would be wise to stay ahead of the curve.
The world’s affluent must start eating local food to tackle the climate crisis, new research shows
The desire by people in richer countries for a diverse range of out-of-season produce imported from overseas is driving up global greenhouse gas emissions, new research has found.
Keeping up with the bevy of views on offsetting, fast-moving regulations and voluntary commitment programs
As a business or organisation working on creating a greener world, you might have heard some concerning chats around the traps of carbon reporting and disclosure and how they don’t go far enough.
This environmental engineer’s answer to passive solar design is a “glimpse into the future”
Utilising recycled timber and the thousands-of-years-old construction material of rammed earth, the “Djildjit” home in Fremantle WA is environmental engineer Martin Anda’s answer to the passive solar philosophy.
Keen to retrofit your home to lower its carbon footprint and save energy? Consider these 3 things
If you’re anything like me, you’re increasingly working from home, one that was built before energy efficiency measures were introduced in Australia.
On the responsibility of ethical business
One thing that the climate crisis is teaching us is that nature is not a resource for humans to profit from – it is a system that we are part of.