• SUBSCRIBE
  • SUPPORT US
  • Buildings
    • Architecture
    • Case Studies
    • Commercial
    • Construction & Development
    • Engineering/Technology
    • Facilities management
    • Housing
    • hospitals, health, aged care
    • Planning & Design
    • Industrial
    • Retail
  • Business & Politics
    • Jobs News
    • Finance
    • Funding & grants
    • Government/Regulations
    • Indigenous Business Series
    • Investment/deals/companies
    • Public/social/ethical
  • Cities & Environment
    • Urbanism
    • Environment
    • Climate Change
    • Infrastructure & transport
    • Rural & Regional
    • Energy
      • Energy
  • Opinion
    • Columns
    • News from the Front Desk
    • Spinifex
  • Library
    • Ebooks & Special Reports
    • Podcasts
  • What’s On
  • The Green List
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Linkedin
  • Buildings
    • Architecture
    • Case Studies
    • Commercial
    • Construction & Development
    • Engineering/Technology
    • Facilities management
    • Housing
    • hospitals, health, aged care
    • Planning & Design
    • Industrial
    • Retail
  • Business & Politics
    • Jobs News
    • Finance
    • Funding & grants
    • Government/Regulations
    • Indigenous Business Series
    • Investment/deals/companies
    • Public/social/ethical
  • Cities & Environment
    • Urbanism
    • Environment
    • Climate Change
    • Infrastructure & transport
    • Rural & Regional
    • Energy
      • Energy
  • Opinion
    • Columns
    • News from the Front Desk
    • Spinifex
  • Library
    • Ebooks & Special Reports
    • Podcasts
  • What’s On
  • The Green List
Skip to content
The Fifth Estate

The Fifth Estate

Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views

Support us

Author Archives: Georgia Roach

georgia@thefifthestate.com.au
air conditioning units
Posted inArticles

Cooling demand to heat up in coming years

by Georgia Roach 12 December 2019
Mortgage Mates Co-founders Daisy Ashworth and Jess Vesely
Posted inArticles

New “dating app” for home ownership

by Georgia Roach 12 December 201913 December 2019
How Now founder Cathy Fa
Posted inArticles

A micro-dairy is turning heads and has just won a Banksia award

by Georgia Roach 5 December 20199 December 2019
Posted inArticles

2019 Banksia Sustainability Awards

by Georgia Roach 5 December 2019
Mark Carney
Posted inArticles

Mark Carney on the risks and opportunities of a low carbon economy transition

by Georgia Roach 21 November 2019
Posted inPlanning

PIA state award winners from around the country

by Georgia Roach 19 November 201920 November 2019
wind turbine alternative energy
Posted inArticles

JLL sees investment opportunities in “surging demand” for alternative energy

by Georgia Roach 18 November 2019
Posted inArticles

Federal green bank and Atlasssian co-founder invest millions in agriculture supply chain

by Georgia Roach 18 November 2019
Posted inArchitecture

Winners of the Australian Institute of Architects National Awards 2019

by Georgia Roach 14 November 201914 November 2019
Posted inArticles

Winners of the NSW PIA’s 2019 Awards for Planning Excellence

by Georgia Roach 14 November 201914 November 2019
Posted inArticles

Virtual reality offers cost-effective vision for better building design

by Georgia Roach 12 November 201912 November 2019
Councils combine to drive local recycling procurement
Posted inWaste and recycling

Councils combine to drive local recycling procurement

by Georgia Roach 7 November 201911 November 2019
Posted inArticles

When NABERS becomes good friends with hotels

by Georgia Roach 24 October 2019
Posted inEnergy

City of Newcastle blows off fossil fuels, signs 10 year PPA for wind power

by Georgia Roach 24 October 201924 October 2019
Nicholas Butler, General Manager at National Carbon Bank of Australia
Posted inArticles

Lots of money going into lighting and energy retrofits for homes and businesses says Green Energy Trading

by Georgia Roach 22 October 201923 October 2019
Photo of Team Graphene, researchers at UNSW
Posted inMaterials

Graphene could unlock methane from wastewater for renewable energy source

by Georgia Roach 10 October 201910 October 2019
Posted inHousing

NSW government celebrates “biggest single transition of social housing tenancies ever”

by Georgia Roach 10 October 201910 October 2019
Posted inAwards

NAWIC Queensland Awards: “empowered women transform societies”

by Georgia Roach 9 October 201917 October 2019
Posted inWaste and recycling

Coles trials zero waste to landfill… while sending a lot of waste to landfill

by Georgia Roach 3 October 20193 October 2019
Posted inArticles

South Australian councils commit to buying back their own rubbish

by Georgia Roach 1 October 2019
kate langan anz
Posted inBusiness & Politics

ANZ’s “awesome” leadership on 100 per cent clean energy

by Georgia Roach 24 September 201925 September 2019
Photograph of the Overall Best Smart City Project, Resilient Sydney Platform at the Committee for Sydney's City Smart Awards 2019
Posted inAwards

2019 Smart City Awards for a better Sydney

by Georgia Roach 24 September 201924 September 2019
Jenya Khvatsky, Director from WePower presenting
Posted inArticles

CitySmart and WePower in PPA group for Brisbane

by Georgia Roach 19 September 201923 September 2019
Posted inFacilities management

Albert Park Preschool achieves carbon neutral dream

by Georgia Roach 11 September 2019
Photo of Co-presidents of the NAWIC NSW chapter Harriet Oldmeadow and Elizabeth Brookes presenting awards
Posted inArticles

NAWIC NSW Awards for Excellence 2019

by Georgia Roach 5 September 20194 December 2019
Photo of all the Climate Council’s Cities Power Partnership Awards winners
Posted inArticles

Climate Council’s Cities Power Partnership winners include a carbon neutral kindy

by Georgia Roach 5 September 20195 September 2019
Photo of two workers on a jobsite
Posted inArticles

WA’s economic growth relies on specialised diversification

by Georgia Roach 2 September 20194 September 2019
photo of students enjoying Chatime in the new UTS food court
Posted inWaste and recycling

UTS’s plastic free food court might just be a world first

by Georgia Roach 20 August 201922 August 2019
City of Dandenong office
Posted inFacilities management

Building management system with big energy savings for old HVAC systems

by Georgia Roach 15 August 201916 August 2019
photo of an ORG recycling truck in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Posted inArticles

GECA’s new Waste Collection Standard starts in Sydney

by Georgia Roach 14 August 2019

Posts navigation

1 2 Older posts

Trending

  • Nikola Tesla dreamed of free electricity; what happened?
  • Metricon Homes founder Mario Biasin passes aged 71
  • Paul Bannister on what’s next for energy efficient office buildings
  • Vicinity unlocks a big green opportunity beyond the mall at Box Hill
  • On the deep differences between Teal and Green
  • On our “frightening” future: how this election shows young people are taking back their voice
  • Ninety per cent of Australian consumers want sustainable products
  • “Even the government is ringing up engineers and offering substantial salary increases” The pressure is on Albo to fix our infrastructure
  • Wheelie popular: E-bikes take charge of the roads
  • Transforming embodied carbon in materials – the fast way
  • About Us
  • Terms of Use
    • Editorial submissions
    • Privacy Policy
    • Code of conduct
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise with us
  • Jobs
  • My account
© 2022 The Fifth Estate. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Linkedin