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Author Archives: Bruce Easton, EcoVantage

Posted inEnergy

Federal government sending mixed messages on gas

by Bruce Easton, EcoVantage 18 August 202026 August 2020
Posted inWaste and recycling

NCC doesn’t cover demolition and contaminated lamps in landfill are the result

by Bruce Easton, EcoVantage 6 May 2020
Progress of lighting with candle, tungsten, fluorescent and LED
Posted inSpinifex

How government schemes transformed the lighting industry

by Bruce Easton, EcoVantage 23 July 2018
Posted inSpinifex

Australia dithers on energy while the world gets on with it

by Bruce Easton, EcoVantage 14 September 2017
energy, Queensland
Posted inGovernment, Spinifex

7 lessons for Queensland’s energy efficiency scheme

by Bruce Easton, EcoVantage 24 July 201725 July 2017
Posted inGovernment, Spinifex

The NESS is dead. Finally!

by Bruce Easton, EcoVantage 5 July 2017
Posted inEnergy, Spinifex

Energy efficiency: more important than renewables?

by Bruce Easton, EcoVantage 31 July 201425 August 2014

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