The $500,000 Kangaroo Island Visible Solar Project has been officially opened. Funded by the state government's RenewablesSA program, the project boasts the first dual-axis solar trackers in Australia to power electric vehicles. [ + ]

The City of Melbourne has announced that two key council documents, which lay out Melbourne's path to a more resilient and self-sufficient future, were this week endorsed at a Future Melbourne Committee meeting. [ + ]

IBISWorld has released a report showcasing China's fastest growing industries in recent years. Given the country's recent goal of energy conservation and independence, industries from the sustainability sector were strongly represented. [ + ]

A cost-effective way to simultaneously increase the quality of wastewater produced by agribusiness while disposing of an expanding odour pollution issue is being deployed to assist crop and livestock operations achieve higher environmental standards. [ + ]

Western Water's Rosslynne Water Filtration Plant (WFP), located in Gisborne, Victoria, has had an innovative water treatment process implemented that will help to provide high-quality water to local properties. [ + ]

Now the retail frenzy of Christmas and the January sales is over for another year, e-waste recycling service TechCollect is reminding people to think carefully about what they do next with the old computers, printers and TVs they replaced or upgraded. [ + ]

Waikato Innovation Park in New Zealand has received funding from the Bio-Resource Processing Alliance (BPA) to help it turn 'waste into wealth' and scale up commercial production of avocado powder. [ + ]

When Nick Christy first came to Brisbane from the UK in 2007, he arrived at the height of one of the worst droughts in Australian history. The crisis was so bad that Queenslanders were being asked to take four-minute showers in order to conserve water. Christy decided there had to be a better way, and started the long road to finding a more efficient shower design. [ + ]

The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has plans to accelerate finance opportunities to help Australia's built environment reach the stars this year. [ + ]

Rapid urban development in our cities is creating new demands on transport infrastructure. Across Australia, our transport systems are under increasing pressure. Existing assets are ageing, costs to maintain and upgrade them have increased and there is a greater demand on infrastructure, in terms of both passenger and freight use. Essentially, increasing urbanisation is leading to constrained capacity and overuse of our transport networks. [ + ]

It may sound like something out of a science fiction film - innovative artificial intelligence that interprets data and takes action - but through an industry-led project, Australia has opened the floodgates to intelligent rainwater tank systems. [ + ]

A state-of-the-art wastewater treatment system, planned for Antarctica's Davis station, will convert effluent into some of the cleanest water in the world. This effluent will have minimal impact on the marine environment when it's discharged to the ocean. [ + ]

Edstein Creative Stone is one of the largest manufacturers of stone products in NSW, providing stonework for a wide range of uses. The company joined the NSW Government's Sustainability Advantage Program in 2009 and helped set up a Manning Valley cluster of businesses in the program. [ + ]

Researchers at RMIT University have developed a concept battery based on storing protons produced by splitting water, thus advancing the potential for hydrogen to replace lithium as an energy source in battery-powered devices. [ + ]

The federal government last week launched a product stewardship scheme to tackle the environmental challenges arising from used tyres which have not been disposed of correctly. This follows the formation of a separate campaign, The Skids, by the Boomerang Alliance and Australian Tyre Recycling Association (ATRA) in September 2013. [ + ]