Runaway land prices undermine housing utility
Australia’s runaway land prices are akin to a national emergency. An increase of $4 trillion in just the next five years is highly likely.
eTool’s life cycle assessment is growing: here’s why
Throughout the pandemic, LCA (life cycle assessment) company eTool has seen sustained demand and even growth in the number of projects using its software.
Coca-Cola Amatil aims to make beverages with 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030
In a sign that Coca-Cola Amatil is sweetening up to corporate sustainability, the beverage behemoth has committed to 100 per cent renewables across its entire operations by 2030.
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Is hiding behind offsets slowing the net-zero emissions transition?
With the Paris goals slipping out of reach it’s crunch time to reduce global emissions. Carbon offsets can help, but only if we use them properly.
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CITIES & ENVIRONMENT
Not ‘if’, but ‘when’: city planners need to design for flooding. These examples show the way
As the current New South Wales flooding highlights, it’s not enough to continue to build cities and towns based on business-as-usual planning principles — especially as these disasters tend to disproportionately affect disadvantaged populations, increasing inequality in Australia.