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Profits over ESG; EVs and charging; Football and sustainability; Sally Capp and Hickory

Profits over ESG; EVs and charging; Football and sustainability; Sally Capp and Hickory

Investors are chasing returns over ESG What a fickle lot we are. New data to hand reveals that individual Australian investors are chasing investment returns from sectors such as US technology, cryptocurrency, uranium, nuclear energy and defence rather than investing in ESG. According to online portfolio tracker Sharesight, ESG-labelled funds have ...

What we did at Sydney Build

The Fifth Estate popped in to visit Sydney Build at the Sydney International Convention Centre (ICC), to catch up with the vibe of the industry; on sustainability in particular. It certainly is a huge affair. Sign up for our free newsletter. There are thousands always expected through the doors, and a huge number of businesses ...
The NABERS Sustainability Portfolio Index is starting to shift the market – in sometimes unexpected ways

The NABERS Sustainability Portfolio Index is starting to shift the market – in sometimes unexpected ways

When NABERS director Magali Wardle sits down to run through her favourite highlights from the newly released NABERS Sustainable Portfolio Index, you can sense the deliberate steady leadership that underpinned the outstanding success of NABERS Energy. In the same way that the rating tool stormed the commercial property world’s notion of sustainability ...
‘Abundance’ and why trickle-down housing economics just admitted what town planners always knew

‘Abundance’ and why trickle-down housing economics just admitted what town planners always knew

Trickle-down housing economics just admitted what town planners always knew, argues Tim Sneesby in this article that tackles the truth about housing supply – 95 per cent of applications for developments are approved and only built when they are financially viable. Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a ...
On how the West was won

On how the West was won

Those of us who have had a lot to do with real estate agents know that they generally have the antenna of finely tuned Stradivarius – or stockbroker. Quick to pick up every nuanced vibration in the atmosphere and transform any slight variation in data inputs into useable performance outcomes. But on sustainability it’s been far from the ...
Why we need more biomaterials

Why we need more biomaterials

Isabella Peppard steps through a range of bio materials, their properties and uses. Some of these will be exhibited at Susty Spec: Biomaterials Exhibition and Launch Party event in Melbourne as part of Melbourne’s Design Week. Biomaterials may seem futuristic, but the reality couldn’t be simpler. Biomaterials are what they sound like: materials ...

Profits over ESG; EVs and charging; Football and sustainability; Sally Capp and Hickory

Profits over ESG; EVs and charging; Football and sustainability; Sally Capp and Hickory
Investors are chasing returns over ESG What a fickle lot we are. New data to hand reveals that individual Australian investors are chasing investment returns from sectors such as US technology, cryptocurrency, uranium, nuclear energy and defence rather than investing in ESG. According to online portfolio tracker Sharesight, ESG-labelled funds have ...

What we did at Sydney Build

The Fifth Estate popped in to visit Sydney Build at the Sydney International Convention Centre (ICC), to catch up with the vibe of the industry; on sustainability in particular. It certainly is a huge affair. Sign up for our free newsletter. There are thousands always expected through the doors, and a huge number of businesses ...

The NABERS Sustainability Portfolio Index is starting to shift the market – in sometimes unexpected ways

The NABERS Sustainability Portfolio Index is starting to shift the market – in sometimes unexpected ways
When NABERS director Magali Wardle sits down to run through her favourite highlights from the newly released NABERS Sustainable Portfolio Index, you can sense the deliberate steady leadership that underpinned the outstanding success of NABERS Energy. In the same way that the rating tool stormed the commercial property world’s notion of sustainability ...

‘Abundance’ and why trickle-down housing economics just admitted what town planners always knew

‘Abundance’ and why trickle-down housing economics just admitted what town planners always knew
Trickle-down housing economics just admitted what town planners always knew, argues Tim Sneesby in this article that tackles the truth about housing supply – 95 per cent of applications for developments are approved and only built when they are financially viable. Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a ...

On how the West was won

On how the West was won
Those of us who have had a lot to do with real estate agents know that they generally have the antenna of finely tuned Stradivarius – or stockbroker. Quick to pick up every nuanced vibration in the atmosphere and transform any slight variation in data inputs into useable performance outcomes. But on sustainability it’s been far from the ...

Why we need more biomaterials

Why we need more biomaterials
Isabella Peppard steps through a range of bio materials, their properties and uses. Some of these will be exhibited at Susty Spec: Biomaterials Exhibition and Launch Party event in Melbourne as part of Melbourne’s Design Week. Biomaterials may seem futuristic, but the reality couldn’t be simpler. Biomaterials are what they sound like: materials ...