The development of a renewable system for cooling Australia’s largest supercomputer is one step closer following the start of an innovative geothermal energy project in Perth. [ + ]

Responding to requests from users, Halytech has improved its Illuminator sports-field lighting management system to monitor energy use and, where appropriate, enable councils to charge for it. [ + ]

The University of Melbourne and the Lord Mayor of Melbourne have launched Australia’s largest green roof research and outreach project at the university’s Burnley Campus near Richmond. [ + ]

On 23 February, NSW Environment Minister Robyn Parker announced the state’s new ‘Waste Less, Recycle More’ Waste Resource and Recovery Initiative - a five-year, $465.7 million plan intended to transform waste and recycling in NSW. [ + ]

Since 2004, Brantner Walters has operated an automated recyclable materials sorting plant in Wölbling, Austria. In May 2012, a pre-sorting facility was put into operation at the facility in order to effectively respond to growing throughput and increasing requirements for product quality. [ + ]

In late December 2012, Coliban Water began lagoon de-sludging works at the Kyneton Water Reclamation Plant to assist treatment processes and manage odour generation on-site. [ + ]

Investors have called on oil and gas companies to disclose critical information about the ways they are managing and measuring the risks associated with hydraulic fracturing operations and shale gas transmission. [ + ]

It’s an all-too-common story with building retrofits that owners opt for a litany of bandaid solutions rather than a holistic approach. [ + ]

A professor at the University of Bath has been awarded an esteemed Wolfson Research Merit Award from Royal Society for her work in the field of low-carbon research. [ + ]

On 16 January, the Victorian Minister for Water, the Hon Peter Walsh MLA, officially opened the $77 million biosolids thermal drying facility at the Black Rock environmental precinct in Connewarre - the largest biosolids drying plant of its type in the Southern Hemisphere. [ + ]

The Siemens and John Holland rail electrification project for the Noarlunga and Seaford rail lines is delivering the electric Traction Power Infrastructure on these rail lines as part of the South Australian government’s Rail Revitalisation project. [ + ]

Today’s sewer maintenance tools are special cameras and milling robots. [ + ]

A former winner of a green tech award has struck success both locally and overseas with its in-house designed MPPT solar charger. Sydney-based electronics manufacturer GSL Electronics won one of the inaugural 2009 Consensus Green Tech Awards which will again be presented in April this year. [ + ]

The New South Wales Premier, the Hon Barry O’Farrell, MP, officially opened Amcor’s new recycled paper machine, in Botany, New South Wales, on 1 February 2013. [ + ]

When Orica Australia needed to complete the remediation of its 12 hectare site located in Villawood, NSW, it engaged environmental consultants Enviropacific. The site was previously part of a larger site owned by the Australian Government and used for manufacturing of munitions, including TNT. Later still, the site had been used for the manufacture and handling of a wide range of pharmaceutical and agricultural chemicals. [ + ]