There are always two sides to sustainability. One is the excitement and exhilaration of great ideas and inspiring people. And then there’s the dead weight flops from people who just don’t want to change.
In recent weeks we’ve had both. On the dead weight side of politics is the move from the National Party and possibly the Liberals to get rid of their ...
Joan Michelson, writer for Forbes and host of the Electric Ladies podcast, shared her views on AI and the erosion of climate data thanks to the US government cuts to climate research and science agencies, plus some optimistic views on the political fight back against the US president. Turns out she was on the money after Zohran Mamdani stormed home as ...
Overview:
EY in the news, City of Sydney goes electric, Redfern Indigenous aged care, ARENA; Queensland grid; V2G charging; aviation fuel
6 November: While EY’s Australian company commits to new digs in Canberra its former global sustainability guru Matthew Bell based in the UK has jumped ship to Anthesis, where he will be group chief executive ...
MARKET PULSE: The property industry is finally “turning a corner in 2025” after chronic skill shortages, high staff turnover and soaring costs impeding business growth, according to the most recent Avdiev Report.Principal Rebecca Sachse said there has been a 15 percentage point increase in the number of businesses performing well compared to six months ...
IN BRIEF: While EY’s Australian company commits to new digs in Canberra its former global sustainability guru Matthew Bell based in the UK has jumped ship to Anthesis, where he will be group chief executive officer.
He succeeds co-founder Stuart McLachlan who started the company in 2013 and since then has amassed around 1400 staff across the ...
ENERGY BRIEFS: Experts are concerned that delays to the National Construction Code will slow the uptake of EVs, as yet another negative consequence flows from the backdown on regular NCC updates, especially on energy. The latest blow means the next iteration of the code, where EV charging points will be stipulated, won’t be until mid-2029.
The NCC was ...
In a regional recycling plant in Australia, Stewart Monti of Atelier Ten will use waste materials to …build the waste processing building.
At Port Kembla, south of Sydney, near Wollongong, Monti and his team are working on a 200-hectare parcel of surplus land owned by BlueScope Steel to create a new industrial ecosystem. It will use large-scale ...
CIRCULAR DISRUPTION: NABERS has released one of the toughest sustainability measurement tools in the climate positive kit – embodied carbon.
Katie Eyles, sector lead embodied carbon for NABERS, who will be speaking at the Circular Disruption Forum on 12 November, says the challenge now is gathering the data, but it will take a while for results to ...
The fightback against the demolition and eviction of public housing tenants continues in Melbourne with a new film that chronicles the eviction of public tenants from Barak Beacon, a development with “sweeping bay views” just three kilometres from the CBD.
The removal of tenants for new housing echoes a bitter fight to protect tenants at Sydney’s ...
Urban development is usually framed in pragmatic terms. A planning problem. An engineering challenge. A logistics puzzle. A financial equation. But what if we thought about city shaping like composing music?
Cities, like symphonies, are made up of layers: the steady bass line of infrastructure, the soaring melody of architecture, the unpredictable ...
Ducted systems are popular. They promise whole-home comfort, but do they deliver it, and at what cost?
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According to the 2021 Residential Baseline Study ducted heating comprises 90 per cent of ...
The Challenge returns for its third round with a live webinar on 13 November 2025, hosted by the Australian Institute of Architects. This flagship initiative is now available Australia-wide and empowers architects to design low to net zero carbon homes, using whole-of-life cycle carbon analysis with the RapidLCA app, to deliver measurable climate ...
There are always two sides to sustainability. One is the excitement and exhilaration of great ideas and inspiring people. And then there’s the dead weight flops from people who just don’t want to change.
In recent weeks we’ve had both. On the dead weight side of politics is the move from the National Party and possibly the Liberals to get rid of their ...
Joan Michelson, writer for Forbes and host of the Electric Ladies podcast, shared her views on AI and the erosion of climate data thanks to the US government cuts to climate research and science agencies, plus some optimistic views on the political fight back against the US president. Turns out she was on the money after Zohran Mamdani stormed home as ...
Overview:
EY in the news, City of Sydney goes electric, Redfern Indigenous aged care, ARENA; Queensland grid; V2G charging; aviation fuel
6 November: While EY’s Australian company commits to new digs in Canberra its former global sustainability guru Matthew Bell based in the UK has jumped ship to Anthesis, where he will be group chief executive ...
MARKET PULSE: The property industry is finally “turning a corner in 2025” after chronic skill shortages, high staff turnover and soaring costs impeding business growth, according to the most recent Avdiev Report.Principal Rebecca Sachse said there has been a 15 percentage point increase in the number of businesses performing well compared to six months ...
IN BRIEF: While EY’s Australian company commits to new digs in Canberra its former global sustainability guru Matthew Bell based in the UK has jumped ship to Anthesis, where he will be group chief executive officer.
He succeeds co-founder Stuart McLachlan who started the company in 2013 and since then has amassed around 1400 staff across the ...
ENERGY BRIEFS: Experts are concerned that delays to the National Construction Code will slow the uptake of EVs, as yet another negative consequence flows from the backdown on regular NCC updates, especially on energy. The latest blow means the next iteration of the code, where EV charging points will be stipulated, won’t be until mid-2029.
The NCC was ...
In a regional recycling plant in Australia, Stewart Monti of Atelier Ten will use waste materials to …build the waste processing building.
At Port Kembla, south of Sydney, near Wollongong, Monti and his team are working on a 200-hectare parcel of surplus land owned by BlueScope Steel to create a new industrial ecosystem. It will use large-scale ...
CIRCULAR DISRUPTION: NABERS has released one of the toughest sustainability measurement tools in the climate positive kit – embodied carbon.
Katie Eyles, sector lead embodied carbon for NABERS, who will be speaking at the Circular Disruption Forum on 12 November, says the challenge now is gathering the data, but it will take a while for results to ...
The fightback against the demolition and eviction of public housing tenants continues in Melbourne with a new film that chronicles the eviction of public tenants from Barak Beacon, a development with “sweeping bay views” just three kilometres from the CBD.
The removal of tenants for new housing echoes a bitter fight to protect tenants at Sydney’s ...
Urban development is usually framed in pragmatic terms. A planning problem. An engineering challenge. A logistics puzzle. A financial equation. But what if we thought about city shaping like composing music?
Cities, like symphonies, are made up of layers: the steady bass line of infrastructure, the soaring melody of architecture, the unpredictable ...
Ducted systems are popular. They promise whole-home comfort, but do they deliver it, and at what cost?
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed brief.
Sign up for our free newsletter.
According to the 2021 Residential Baseline Study ducted heating comprises 90 per cent of ...
The Challenge returns for its third round with a live webinar on 13 November 2025, hosted by the Australian Institute of Architects. This flagship initiative is now available Australia-wide and empowers architects to design low to net zero carbon homes, using whole-of-life cycle carbon analysis with the RapidLCA app, to deliver measurable climate ...
