Our last event of the year was a firecracker. Probably one of the most stimulating and contentious we’ve had for a long time, or ever.
Sparks flew equally from the passions among the presenters and the audience but the discussions were respectful and adhered to the facts, as far as we understand about this material.
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Fossil fuels are turning to funding education to downplay climate change
Analysis by Comms Declare has found that children as young as 9 are being taught about climate change that is shaped by the fossil fuel industry. The advocacy group found that Shell’s Queensland Gas Company has provided more than $10 million to Queensland Museum since 2015 to ...
The Big Debate: Timber is the sustainability solution of our dreams, on Tuesday, kicked off with the passion and nuanced debating points we have come to expect from this important material for the sustainability industry.
We took pre-polls in the weeks leading up to the debate to see how people felt before hearing the arguments, then from the audience ...
How to build a better world podcast: Infrastructure work is going regional – in water, sanitation, roads and bridges – says Kaushik Chakraborty, senior vice president, Asia Pacific & Japan with Bentley Systems in this podcast. It’s part of the big global drift out of cities and into towns and smaller cities that was bolstered by Covid. The trend is ...
POSTCARD FROM AMSTERDAM: It’s a country where they literally hold back the tide, and it seems like they have a practical and functional solution for everything. Trains run on time, and ships move large quantities of materials in canals above the highways. Cars give way to bikes (lots of them), and the people are known for calling a spade a ...
Victoria has been attracting the dismay of its supporters and the glee of its detractors with its poorly performing state coffers, but to say that the axing of Sustainability Victoria is a good thing because it’s done its job is to stretch credulity.
Either that, or it’s providing a giant arrow to the budgets for spin merchants, which are clearly not ...
We published an ebook today on an exciting and emerging new industry, social procurement in construction. Most of our readers would know that’s about investing a small portion of big government infrastructure contracts in people and businesses who need the support.
The notion itself is not new – the concept of helping people worse off than ourselves ...
Under the recently published NSW Waste and Circular Economy Infrastructure Plan, the government will establish an advisory committee to guide the strategy’s implementation.
The industry has long requested this repeatedly. As described in my last article the reason is simple: neither the NSW government nor the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has ...
Recent media reporting on the limited public transport coverage in Mount Druitt suburbs and on high-speed rail (HSR) options for the Sydney to Newcastle corridor raises important micro and macro issues about where to go next in planning Greater Sydney.
Nearly eight years on since the last (2018) Greater Sydney Regional Plan (GSRP) – A Metropolis of ...
How to build a better world podcast: John King reckons he’s found the recipe for sustainability success and profits, and it’s wrapped up in solutions that defy the crowd.
King’s business, JG King Building Group, was started 40 years ago by his father in Ballarat, about two hours west of Melbourne, and today it employs about 350 staff, providing ...
INTRODUCING
It’s an extraordinary privilege to launch this important publication about how social procurement in construction can change lives.
In so many ways it feels like the start of a new industry, one that’s very similar to the start of the green building movement more than two decades ago.
The passions and commitment of the ...
Here are highlight of what the panel on The Big Debate on timber had to say at Circular Disruption on 12 November. It provides an insight into how complex and emotional this topic can get. Following is a lightly edited version of the original debate.
Don’t miss the Big Debate on timber Round Two, Tuesday 9 December
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Our last event of the year was a firecracker. Probably one of the most stimulating and contentious we’ve had for a long time, or ever.
Sparks flew equally from the passions among the presenters and the audience but the discussions were respectful and adhered to the facts, as far as we understand about this material.
Sign up for our free ...
Fossil fuels are turning to funding education to downplay climate change
Analysis by Comms Declare has found that children as young as 9 are being taught about climate change that is shaped by the fossil fuel industry. The advocacy group found that Shell’s Queensland Gas Company has provided more than $10 million to Queensland Museum since 2015 to ...
The Big Debate: Timber is the sustainability solution of our dreams, on Tuesday, kicked off with the passion and nuanced debating points we have come to expect from this important material for the sustainability industry.
We took pre-polls in the weeks leading up to the debate to see how people felt before hearing the arguments, then from the audience ...
How to build a better world podcast: Infrastructure work is going regional – in water, sanitation, roads and bridges – says Kaushik Chakraborty, senior vice president, Asia Pacific & Japan with Bentley Systems in this podcast. It’s part of the big global drift out of cities and into towns and smaller cities that was bolstered by Covid. The trend is ...
POSTCARD FROM AMSTERDAM: It’s a country where they literally hold back the tide, and it seems like they have a practical and functional solution for everything. Trains run on time, and ships move large quantities of materials in canals above the highways. Cars give way to bikes (lots of them), and the people are known for calling a spade a ...
Victoria has been attracting the dismay of its supporters and the glee of its detractors with its poorly performing state coffers, but to say that the axing of Sustainability Victoria is a good thing because it’s done its job is to stretch credulity.
Either that, or it’s providing a giant arrow to the budgets for spin merchants, which are clearly not ...
We published an ebook today on an exciting and emerging new industry, social procurement in construction. Most of our readers would know that’s about investing a small portion of big government infrastructure contracts in people and businesses who need the support.
The notion itself is not new – the concept of helping people worse off than ourselves ...
Under the recently published NSW Waste and Circular Economy Infrastructure Plan, the government will establish an advisory committee to guide the strategy’s implementation.
The industry has long requested this repeatedly. As described in my last article the reason is simple: neither the NSW government nor the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has ...
Recent media reporting on the limited public transport coverage in Mount Druitt suburbs and on high-speed rail (HSR) options for the Sydney to Newcastle corridor raises important micro and macro issues about where to go next in planning Greater Sydney.
Nearly eight years on since the last (2018) Greater Sydney Regional Plan (GSRP) – A Metropolis of ...
How to build a better world podcast: John King reckons he’s found the recipe for sustainability success and profits, and it’s wrapped up in solutions that defy the crowd.
King’s business, JG King Building Group, was started 40 years ago by his father in Ballarat, about two hours west of Melbourne, and today it employs about 350 staff, providing ...
INTRODUCING
It’s an extraordinary privilege to launch this important publication about how social procurement in construction can change lives.
In so many ways it feels like the start of a new industry, one that’s very similar to the start of the green building movement more than two decades ago.
The passions and commitment of the ...
Here are highlight of what the panel on The Big Debate on timber had to say at Circular Disruption on 12 November. It provides an insight into how complex and emotional this topic can get. Following is a lightly edited version of the original debate.
Don’t miss the Big Debate on timber Round Two, Tuesday 9 December
Sign up for our free ...
