Get to know a little more about the 2019 Banksia Small Business Award Finalists!? Spell & The Gypsy, NSW Spell & The Gypsy Collective is an Australian born global fashion label. Based in Byron Bay with satellite offices in Sydney, we have a vision of being one of the most inspiring and conscious fashion brands […]
The Banksia Sustainability Awards are the most sought after Sustainability Awards in Australia. The Banksias, now in their 31st year, are?based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and provide?an insight into how we are performing against the SDGs. They are the most diverse recognition program of its type. They seek out and recognise leadership and […]
Melbourne Zoo today unveils its full Zoo Twilights 2020 lineup, with the iconic outdoor concert series once again set to showcase a diverse mix of top local and international acts in the breathtaking open-air surrounds. Melbourne’s must-see summer music event will run each weekend, from 24 January to 7 March, with all proceeds from this […]
Hepburn Z-NET wins Premier’s Sustainability Award! As key partners in Hepburn Z-NET, we are very proud to announce that the project has been awarded with the Premier’s Sustainability Award for the Community category! We would like to congratulate Renew who led this collaborative program and thank the Hepburn Shire Council, local sustainability groups and community […]
Ecologists gathering in Launceston this week are discussing how the animals of the Tasmanian Midlands can guide conservation priorities in the region. From the lack of data on Tasmanian birds, to the movement of quolls, and why there are no longer emus roaming here. Scientists available for interview – contact Toni Stevens; Ecological Society of […]
QUT researchers have found a treatment to extract and reuse polyester from polyester/wool mix fabrics to help prevent some of the 92 million tonnes of textiles dumped every year going to landfill. Globally, an estimated 92 million tonnes of textiles go to landfill each year QUT researchers have found a way to separate polyester from […]
An icon of ‘Marvellous Melbourne’ assembled in its original form for the first time since 1945, is on public display at Scienceworks this summer. Museums Victoria staff and volunteers with the Great Melbourne Telescope in the Pumping Station at Scienceworks in Spotswood. Source: Museums Victoria Every Wednesday since 2008,?volunteers have gathered?to painstakingly restore one of […]
You won’t see stars at the Australian Acoustic Observatory but you will “see” a galaxy of sounds from around Australia. Wild and remote areas around Australia will soon be part of the Australian Acoustic Observatory, the world’s first ‘Google maps for sound’ – hundreds of solar-powered sensors that will continuously record the sounds of wildlife […]
The First Australians helped plants branch out Fire season calendar a guide for better burns Indigenous ecological knowledge helps shape better weather forecasts Kiwirrkurra people eat cats; save bilbies and the great desert skink ‘Right way science’ the way for land management “The big knowledge that Indigenous people bring to ecology is profound, and it […]
Australia Post, VIC In 2019 Australia Post launched a new Group Corporate Responsibility (CR) Plan, Everyone Matters: our plan for inclusive and sustainable prosperity. The SDGs are the backbone of Australia Post’s approach. Outlined in the plan are 10 aspirations for 2030, aligned to the SDGs the organisation impacts most directly, as well as 19 […]
Over the past two days, CO2CRC brought together more than 130 delegates for a two-day symposium on the greenhouse gas mitigation technology, carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS).? Top national and international scientists and researchers along with industry leaders, professionals, technology vendors and policy makers met in Torquay, Victoria to showcase fundamental developments in CCUS […]
Queensland king of solar, Karl Brown of Instyle Solar has been crowned Australian Young Entrepreneur Trailblazer of the Year, beating out a tightly contested group at the Australian Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards over the weekend.? Founding Instyle Solar with just $2,500 in 2014, the 39-year-old has grown the company into Queensland’s leading solar […]
AQUIFERS KEY TO RESOURCE RESILIENCE – 2019 GROUNDWATER CONFERENCE What do Australia’s climate change, finite water resources, resource management and energy-future challenges have in common? The 2019 Australian Groundwater Conference will outline an important commonality: they all require Australia’s groundwater experts to implement innovative groundwater solutions to meet Australia’s resilience aims. The Brisbane event will […]
Monash University Buildings and Property Division, VIC Monash University has opened a new residential accommodation complex on its Peninsula Campus, constructing its most energy efficient building in the process. Gillies Hall provides students with a range of modern, high quality and sustainable living spaces over six levels. The building includes 150 self-contained studio apartments, with […]
A Call for unified National Leadership regarding Climate Change Let us draw the line now under what is past. Let us just get on with working together to prevent global temperatures rising further. As soon as possible, can our Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition convene a Roundtable, shaping a bipartisan approach, drawing […]
Every minute we lose forest cover equivalent to 36 football fields. This means 13 million hectares of forest land disappear every year, an area equivalent to the size of Greece. The consequences are doubly negative for our planet: deforestation accounts for about 17% of Climate Change. The loss of forests has more impact on greenhouse […]
Scientists have come up with a radical plan to save the critically endangered mountain pygmy-possum: take some from their alpine habitat and introduce them to a warmer, lowland rainforest environment. In a study published today in Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions B, researchers from UNSW Sydney use fossil evidence going back 25 million years to argue […]
A large pool of open water at the edge of Helheim Glacier in east Greenland, as seen from the Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) aircraft. The OMG team successfully dropped an ocean probe in this pool of water and measured the water temperature right at the glacier’s face. In March, a NASA-led research team announced that […]
A new report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) highlights that human-caused warming is destroying sea ice habitat in the Antarctic, threatening the survival of many iconic polar species such as whales, penguins and krill. The report Tracking Antarctica: Responding to the Climate Crisis has been released as the annual meeting of the […]
Thousands of Australians are unaware of the government rebate available to homeowners and businesses looking to turn to renewable energy and reduce their power bill. The Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme is open to all Australians and creates a financial incentive for individuals and small businesses to install eligible small-scale renewable energy systems. Eligible systems include […]
An innovative new cooling technology developed in South Australia will be trialled at food, agriculture and tourism businesses to help reduce their energy costs and emissions from heating and cooling.? ? On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has today announced $2 million in funding to Glaciem Cooling Technologies Pty […]
After a successful two years of playing a critical role in maintaining grid security, the world’s largest battery is set to receive a significant upgrade to further benefit the grid in South Australia. ? On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has today announced $8 million in funding to Neoen […]
A 50 per cent expansion of the world’s largest battery, Hornsdale Power Reserve, also known as the Tesla Big Battery, will provide additional grid stability while continuing to reduce the cost of electricity to consumers. The site will be the first grid-scale battery in Australia to provide inertia benefits to the National Electricity Market facilitating […]
Maoneng to expand battery storage portfolio in NSW with new AGL contract Maoneng will build utility-scale batteries that will provide reliability and security for AGL during peak periods The batteries will be operational from 2023 and will store enough energy to power up to 30,000 homes Maoneng,?the Australian company spearheading the country’s transition to renewable […]
Leading eco retailer, Biome, has its sights set on helping Melburnians change the world with a new store opening early December at Burwood Brickworks, planned to be the world’s most sustainable shopping centre.? With a thriving online store and five successful Queensland stores, the multi-award winning eco retailer is furthering its environmental impact bringing hundreds […]
Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Life services, is the first Australian company to partner with plant-based meat innovator Beyond Meat to deliver sustainable protein alternatives to miners and corporate workers. Following worker demand, Sodexo will deliver Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger, a non-beef patty, to several sites as part of a three-month trial. TheBeyond Burger […]
When wastewater gives power to the people Sustainable purification of wastewater by naturally occurring algae is an outstanding way for regional towns to reuse precious water – and reduce a town’s carbon footprint and power usage at the same time, says environmental health Professor Howard Fallowfield. The remarkable wastewater treatment model – which is now […]
Information gaps a barrier to ecosystem sustainability Global efforts to protect ecosystems and biodiversity have good intentions and clear goals but are poorly executed, according to a new study. ‘Key knowledge gaps to achieve global sustainability goals’ was published in the Nature Sustainabilityjournal this week, developed by an international team including University of Southern Queensland […]
L’Oréal Australia will be powered by 100 % renewable electricity under a long-term energy supply agreement with ENGIE Australia & New Zealand. The five-year deal is part of L’Oréal’s global Sharing Beauty with All sustainability program, which commits the company to reduce its environmental footprint, through changes such as using renewable energy. As at 2018, […]
Closing in on a blood test diagnosis How baits could be used to deliver vaccines Devils fighting off their own tumours Infected populations growing up too fast How devils protect threatened species from feral cats And why the boys are to blame. At the University of Tasmania, they are working on a diagnostic blood test, […]
Seeds For Snapper to plant a million seeds in WA Western Australia’s second largest Pink Snapper spawning ground is slowly getting restored with the help of an innovative habitat restoration project, Seeds for Snapper. Behind the project is OzFish, Australia’s only first fish conservation group, who developed a trial last year to see if the […]
PROJECT UPDATE: Coral researchers are working night and day on the Great Barrier Reef to complete a radically new approach to mass coral re-seeding, successfully rearing millions of hardy coral babies following the reef’s famous mass coral spawning event. The ‘Coral IVF’ team led by Southern Cross University’s Professor Peter Harrison, with researchers Katie Chartrand […]
The Monash scientists who found that pharmaceutical pollutants in waterways altered reproductive behaviour, anxiety levels, activity, and anti-predator?responses of fish have now discovered for the first time that such toxicity is also having a disturbing impact on the social behaviour of fish. The new findings are published today in Biology Letters and coincide with a […]
Motorists encouraged to be wary of migrating shearwater chicks and changed traffic conditions on Phillip Island as part of the Shearwater Rescue Initiative. Tens of thousands of shearwater chicks will leave Phillip Island and embark on their maiden migration to Alaska in the coming weeks – causing a potential road hazard for drivers in the […]
Penrith-based and family-operated soaping mill, Shampoo with a Purpose, today celebrates a company?milestone by selling over 25,000 solid shampoo bars since launch and saving over 150,000 single-use?plastic bottles from ending up in Australian landfill. Launched in 2018 and lead by mother-and-daughter duo, Liz & Geneva Valek, Shampoo With A Purpose?pioneers the green movement in Australian […]
HIGHLIGHTS? Lithium Australia moves to a 73.7% interest in Envirostream, up from 23.9%.? Envirostream is the only Australian company able to recycle all the energy metals from spent lithium ion batteries (“LIB”s).? Envirostream has successfully constructed and is commissioning its expanded Melbourne processing facility (capacity to recycle up to 3,000tpa of batteries).? Shipments of mixed […]
After three years of research, a team of leading marine experts, led by The Nature Conservancy and Deakin University, release today a watershed report describing and mapping the economic value provided, free-of-charge, by the coastal wetlands of south-eastern Australia. “Our research reveals for the first time the often underappreciated economic value provided by our coastal […]
A new campaign is warning NSW residents to be vigilant when renovating or building because asbestos lurks in more places than you’d think, the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) announced today ahead of Asbestos Awareness Week (November 25 – December 1). Over 3,000 products containing asbestos were used in Australian homes and workplaces before asbestos […]
On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) today announced a funding round of up to $70 million to help fast track the development of renewable hydrogen in Australia. ? ARENA’s hydrogen funding round is expected to play a material role in supporting commercial scale deployments of renewable hydrogen in Australia. […]
After more than a year of careful planning and community consultation, the construction of new oyster reefs in Oyster Harbour, near Albany on WA’s southern coast gets underway next week. “I’m so excited to get construction started,” said Alex Hams, Marine Project Coordinator at The Nature Conservancy. “Rebuilding these locally extinct reefs will bring back […]
Key facts: More than half (59%) always or almost always buy free-range eggs, with over half (52%) saying they never or hardly ever buy caged eggs 30 per cent don’t know or are unsure what caged eggs are Less than a third of consumers (32%) know how little space layer hens have in a cage […]
The Hickory Group continue to be one of the most environmentally friendly construction company in Australia. In recent months Hickory has completed projects such as Market Lane, Nexus Corporate, and Conservatory that have obtained 5-star ratings from either or both NABERS and the Green Building Council of Australia. There has been significant growth in the […]
A Wimmera volunteer protecting rare aquatic praying mantis from drought set to represent VIC on national stage ? As drought and unprecedented bushfire conditions rage across rural Victoria, one Stawell volunteer is dedicated to safeguarding an endangered aquatic praying mantis and other rare species in the Wimmera. ? By coordinating the planting of 1.1 million […]
Researchers at the University of Adelaide found that in many Australian inland waterways, risks to water quality associated with the potential release of the carp virus would be minimal in many areas and manageable in others. “If the carp virus is released to control carp,” explains Principal Investigator Justin Brooks “the ecosystem will need to […]
Penrith-based and family-operated soaping mill, Shampoo with a Purpose, today celebrates a company?milestone by selling over 25,000 solid shampoo bars since launch and saving over 150,000 single-use?plastic bottles from ending up in Australian landfill. Launched in 2018 and lead by mother-and-daughter duo, Liz & Geneva Valek, Shampoo With A Purpose?pioneers the green movement in Australian […]
Sections Of Trekking Poles That One Should Know About
You would probably be thinking, why would you need a pole for trekking? But the truth is everything you use on a trek has a purpose. Experienced trekkers use trekking poles or walking poles during a hike. You might not know but pole walking from Australia comes with a number of benefits. The most among […]
The Eco Has Landed… Meet The Brand Set To Transform The Workwear Industry
BEAUTEX DESIGNS HAS LAUNCHED as an Australian designed and owned, sustainable?workwear manufacturer. Taking a step in the right direction with a circular business model,?BeauTex is set to be a pioneer in creating a more sustainable future, with waste?minimisation, transparency and re-use. Targeting the hair and beauty, hospitality, industrial,?construction and health industries, BeauTex have created footwear […]
Little Green Panda and Stroh merge in a move to tackle single-use plastics
LITTLE GREEN PANDA AND STROH MERGE IN A MOVE TO TACKLE SINGLE-USE PLASTICS This joint venture is taking drinking straws back to its grass roots, offering a sustainable alternative to disposable plastic straws Two Australian companies offering competing products, Little Green Panda and Stroh, have joined forces in a bid to eliminate disposable plastic straws […]
Zero Co launches Kickstarter to eliminate single-use plastic packaging from every Aussie household
Zero Co has launched a Kickstarter campaign calling on all Aussies to help fund the first production of a range of planet-friendly, plastic-busting household products delivered directly to the consumer via a circular delivery system. Zero Co reached its target of $251,313 within eight days of launching and is now Australia’s most funded campaign, sitting […]
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