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Category: Environment

Posted inUrbanism

Melbourne City Council commits $140M to getting Greenline started

by Andrew Sadauskas 17 May 202217 May 2022
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How rainwater tanks can save stormwater to nourish our environment and reduce the urban heat island

Partnered Content Kingspan Water & Energy 10 March 202215 March 2022
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Posted inConstruction & Development

The battle for Figtree Hill and the koala corridor

by Rose Mary Petrass 24 February 202225 February 2022
Posted inEducation, Training & Research

‘Time is their secret weapon’: the hidden grey army quietly advancing species discovery in Australia

by Rachael Fowler, The University of Melbourne. 8 February 20228 February 2022
Posted inEnvironment

Greater Brisbane claims top place as Australia’s leafiest capital city

by Rose Mary Petrass 14 December 202114 December 2021
Posted inEnvironment

Nature wants its due and is looking to investors and capital

by Poppy Johnston 21 October 202121 October 2021
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Posted inSpinifex

Human progress is no excuse to destroy nature. A push to make ‘ecocide’ a global crime must recognise this fundamental truth

by Anthony Burke, UNSW and Danielle Celermajer, University of Sydney 31 August 202131 August 2021
Posted inEnvironment

Preserving Australia’s biodiversity is crucial and needs creative programs

by Colin Vaughan, SMEC 22 June 202122 June 2021
Posted inEnvironment

Call to halt sale of synthetic refrigerants

by David Thorpe 10 June 202110 June 2021
Posted inEnvironment

UN calls for widespread land rehabilitation to avoid environmental, economic crisis

by David Thorpe 7 June 20217 June 2021
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Posted inEnvironment

How to develop the urban forest

by David Thorpe 12 May 202110 June 2021
Image from Parramatta River Catchment Group
Posted inEnvironment

Construction runoff still a major polluter of local waterways

by Duncan Murray 22 April 202122 April 2021
Posted inEnvironment

To avoid future pandemics, reverse the destruction of ecosystems

by David Thorpe 23 March 202123 March 2021
Posted inEnvironment

Water injustice runs deep in Australia. Fixing it means handing control to First Nations

by Sue Jackson, Griffith University, Francis Markham, Australian National University, Fred Hooper, Indigenous Knowledge, Grant Rigney, Indigenous Knowledge, Lana D. Hartwig, Griffith University and Rene Woods, Indigenous Knowledge 18 February 202118 February 2021
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Posted inEnvironment

The Green List: What’s new in sustainable consumer land

by Damian Clarke 16 February 202118 February 2021
Posted inEnvironment

Lining up finance, tax and net zero – the European model

by David Thorpe 26 November 202026 November 2020
Posted inEnvironment

Inner city Sydney community garden to be axed, but making way for affordable housing

by Roxanne Fitzgerald 17 November 202030 June 2021
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Posted inEnvironment

How big is your carbon? What one government agency did to measure its impact

by David Thorpe 27 October 202027 October 2020
Posted inEnvironment

The water cycle is about to get even more circular

by Poppy Johnston 20 October 202020 October 2020
Posted inEnvironment

WATER: How does NSW make sure it doesn’t get so close to Day Zero again?

by Poppy Johnston 15 October 202023 October 2020
Posted inEnvironment

Coal’s deadly legacy in Australia and the US

by Mollie Hersh 17 September 202017 September 2020
Posted inEnvironment

Finding the most adaptable urban trees for a changing climate

by Mollie Hersh 20 August 202027 August 2020
Posted inEnvironment

Flick the Switch is on – we’re really excited (and just a tad busy!)

by The Fifth Estate 4 August 202026 August 2020
Posted inEnvironment

We need to get real about bushfires in Australia and make homes “fire wise”

by Chris Ferreira, The Forever Project 4 August 202026 August 2020
Posted inEnvironment

To restore our cities’ rivers, we need to decolonise the law reform process

by Bruce Lindsay, Environmental Justice Australia 30 July 202026 August 2020
Posted inEnvironment

Environment Minister Sussan Ley is in a tearing hurry to embrace nature law reform – and that’s a worry

by Peter Burnett, Australian National University 21 July 2020
Posted inEnvironment

The glimmer of hope that is clean air

by Peter Bailey, Arup 21 July 202023 July 2020
Posted inEnvironment

Carbon pricing works: the largest-ever study puts it beyond doubt

by Paul Burke, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University; Frank Jotzo, Australian National University, and Rohan Best, Macquarie University 14 July 2020
Posted inEnvironment

Here’s an idea: Let’s plant our way out of the Covid crisis

by Jess Miller, Greener Spaces Better Places; Anthony Kachenko, Hort Innovation 14 July 202014 July 2020
Posted inGovernment/Regulations

Environmental protections on shaky ground as review for EPBC Act looms

by Poppy Johnston 2 July 20202 July 2020

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