Knocks us over with a feather. Australians who voted no to the Voice, and no to the Liberal Party but yes to One Nation, have also polled yes to falling house prices. These things could all be connected to the Yellow Brick Road that leads us back to the glorious sensible centre, once pilloried as boring, in today’s crazy world, a radical ...
SEFA commits $500 million to support underfunded social services
Impact investor Social Enterprise Finance Australia (SEFA) has announced a $500 million commitment by 2030 and estimates it could support up to 1000 underfunded local charities, social enterprises, and community organisations. The funding will help address a structural funding gap as ...
In celebration of the London Climate Action Week, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres warned the world that it is facing a “tale of two crises”, the climate crisis and the energy crisis. One is pushing us deeper toward higher temperatures and closer to catastrophic tipping points, and the other is exposing the folly of a world hooked on ...
There’s a lot of misdirection – to say the least – about the tax that Australia extracts from its big extraction industry of gas. The industry has been advertising strongly to turn public support its way. But what’s the truth? Here’s what we found.
Australia is one of the world’s largest exporters of liquefied natural gas (LNG), yet the profits from ...
Richard Hyde, who was a panellist at the Passive House Debate in May, curated by The Fifth Estate, has some reflections on the debate to share. The proposition of the debate was: Passive House is the ideal solution for future-fit buildings.
“Passive House (PH), or in the original German Passivhaus, denotes a highly energy-efficient building, one that ...
The UK government is cracking the whip on private rented buildings over 1000 square metres, confirming that from 2031, these buildings will need to reach a higher standard of energy efficiency. And the UK’s Better Buildings Partnership is in full agreement.
Better Building Partnerships said on social media that this was a “critical piece of ...
Below is an extract from Dr Paul Loh and Andrei Dolnikov’s new book Parallax: Architectural Visualisation Now, courtesy of Uro Publications.
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Architectural visualisation has emerged as a powerful medium that shapes how the community at large understands the future possibilities of our cities. ...
Brookfield is selling Australian-based construction firm Multiplex to Japan’s “big five” construction giant, Obayashi Corporation, for $US650 ($A924) million. We looked into its sustainability claims, and if these translate to its Australian practices, the company might be seen as a pacesetter.
According to recent announcements, the Japanese Obayashi ...
Female engineers underutilised and underpaid
A new report from Engineers Australia and WSP finds that 13,000 more women could be in direct engineering roles if employed at the same rate as men. Additionally, Workplace Gender Equality Agency data reveals the gender pay gap persists in the professional scientific and technical services industry. It ...
TerraCycle has been in Australia for 12 years and has notched up 2500 public drop off locations for the products it recycles. Now it’s aiming at the corporate sector for the next tranche of its growth as regulations push the sector to better behaviour.
Industries are showing growing interest in sustainable operations, and TerraCycle, which specialises ...
For years, builders and developers have treated “sustainable” homes as someone else’s problem. Solar panels, batteries, double-glazed windows, correct insulation, good ventilation and better materials have been thought to be too expensive, too niche and too unprofitable to include in new homes, so they were left out.
The result is predictable. ...
Australia’s housing crisis is not the result of a single policy failure. It is the product of decades of underinvestment, short-term thinking and a persistent misunderstanding of what housing represents in a modern economy.
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Knocks us over with a feather. Australians who voted no to the Voice, and no to the Liberal Party but yes to One Nation, have also polled yes to falling house prices. These things could all be connected to the Yellow Brick Road that leads us back to the glorious sensible centre, once pilloried as boring, in today’s crazy world, a radical ...
SEFA commits $500 million to support underfunded social services
Impact investor Social Enterprise Finance Australia (SEFA) has announced a $500 million commitment by 2030 and estimates it could support up to 1000 underfunded local charities, social enterprises, and community organisations. The funding will help address a structural funding gap as ...
In celebration of the London Climate Action Week, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres warned the world that it is facing a “tale of two crises”, the climate crisis and the energy crisis. One is pushing us deeper toward higher temperatures and closer to catastrophic tipping points, and the other is exposing the folly of a world hooked on ...
There’s a lot of misdirection – to say the least – about the tax that Australia extracts from its big extraction industry of gas. The industry has been advertising strongly to turn public support its way. But what’s the truth? Here’s what we found.
Australia is one of the world’s largest exporters of liquefied natural gas (LNG), yet the profits from ...
Richard Hyde, who was a panellist at the Passive House Debate in May, curated by The Fifth Estate, has some reflections on the debate to share. The proposition of the debate was: Passive House is the ideal solution for future-fit buildings.
“Passive House (PH), or in the original German Passivhaus, denotes a highly energy-efficient building, one that ...
The UK government is cracking the whip on private rented buildings over 1000 square metres, confirming that from 2031, these buildings will need to reach a higher standard of energy efficiency. And the UK’s Better Buildings Partnership is in full agreement.
Better Building Partnerships said on social media that this was a “critical piece of ...
Below is an extract from Dr Paul Loh and Andrei Dolnikov’s new book Parallax: Architectural Visualisation Now, courtesy of Uro Publications.
Sign up for our free newsletter.
Architectural visualisation has emerged as a powerful medium that shapes how the community at large understands the future possibilities of our cities. ...
Brookfield is selling Australian-based construction firm Multiplex to Japan’s “big five” construction giant, Obayashi Corporation, for $US650 ($A924) million. We looked into its sustainability claims, and if these translate to its Australian practices, the company might be seen as a pacesetter.
According to recent announcements, the Japanese Obayashi ...
Female engineers underutilised and underpaid
A new report from Engineers Australia and WSP finds that 13,000 more women could be in direct engineering roles if employed at the same rate as men. Additionally, Workplace Gender Equality Agency data reveals the gender pay gap persists in the professional scientific and technical services industry. It ...
TerraCycle has been in Australia for 12 years and has notched up 2500 public drop off locations for the products it recycles. Now it’s aiming at the corporate sector for the next tranche of its growth as regulations push the sector to better behaviour.
Industries are showing growing interest in sustainable operations, and TerraCycle, which specialises ...
For years, builders and developers have treated “sustainable” homes as someone else’s problem. Solar panels, batteries, double-glazed windows, correct insulation, good ventilation and better materials have been thought to be too expensive, too niche and too unprofitable to include in new homes, so they were left out.
The result is predictable. ...
Australia’s housing crisis is not the result of a single policy failure. It is the product of decades of underinvestment, short-term thinking and a persistent misunderstanding of what housing represents in a modern economy.
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