Brighsun EV Group has set a new world record for the greatest distance covered by an electric bus on a single charge, just two weeks after the launch of the company's electric vehicle (EV) propulsion system technology in Melbourne. [ + ]

WA Minister for Energy Mike Nahan has announced a historic partnership between Horizon Power and China's Lishen Power that will explore ways of meeting energy demand quickly at a lower cost with the use of battery storage. [ + ]

The Woodlawn Eco-precinct, located near Goulburn in southern NSW, recently celebrated the ground breaking of a new facility which will help close the loop on Sydney's residual waste. [ + ]

The Australian Greens have released their plan to ensure that, by 2030, Australia's energy generation is at least 90% renewable and twice as efficient as today. [ + ]

Romilly Madew, the CEO of the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA), has been honoured with an International Leadership Award. [ + ]

Engineering students from Imperial College London have won the IChemE 2015 Macnab-Lacey Student Design Prize, awarded annually to the student design project that best shows how the principles of chemical engineering practice can contribute to a more sustainable world. [ + ]

Australia needs to adopt a new attitude towards high-performance buildings if we are to catch up with the rest of the developed world, according to building products company CSR. [ + ]

An $8.5 million plant to process end-of-life car and truck tyres, proposed for the country town of Longford, Tasmania, will not proceed if the local council does not end its move to revoke Tyre Recycle Tasmania's permit to store tyres on its site beyond March 2016. [ + ]

Prince Charles has wound up his Australian tour, but not before turning the first sod on what is said to be Australia's most sustainable housing development. [ + ]

The Waste Management Association of Australia will next year hold WasteNSW 2016 — the first WMAA NSW waste and resource recovery conference run by the industry, for the industry. [ + ]

The global cumulative installed capacity for solar PV power will rise from 175.4 GW in 2014 to an estimated 223.2 GW in 2015, despite the anticipated decline in the annual installations of several key countries. [ + ]

The National Energy Efficiency Conference enabled over 300 efficiency leaders, innovators, energy users and policymakers to come together to hear, debate and analyse the latest Australian and global thinking about maximising productivity by saving energy. [ + ]

The winners of the 2015 Banksia Sustainability Awards have been announced, with the prestigious Banksia Gold Sustainability Award going to South Australian small business Kalleske Wines. [ + ]

Latent Heat Storage has developed a low-cost thermal energy storage system based on the latent heat properties of silicon derived from sand. [ + ]

RMIT University has produced the kerbside recycling calculator — an online tool that enables Victorian households, businesses and governments to estimate the environmental benefits of recycling in terms of greenhouse gas reduction, water and energy savings. [ + ]