The Australian Green Infrastructure Council (AGIC) has announced the appointment of five new members to its Board of Directors.

Origin, Gold Award sponsor of the Banksia Environmental Foundation's annual national awards, has applauded this year's winner, Ferguson Plarre Bakehouses, for its commitment to sustainable business practices.

Following the release of the annual report card by the Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA), its Executive Director, Ross Young, has noted that Australia is leading the world in implementing water efficiency programs in cities and towns.

The Senate has passed the federal government's renewable energy target legislation.

Research into minerals exploration, climate change, greenhouse gas technologies and poultry has received a major funding boost of $96.1 million under the latest round of the Australian government’s Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) program.

Datapod and APC have announced a strategic partnership and the launch of the Australian-developed Datapod system of containerised data centre solutions.

Tasmanian high school student Storm Holwill represented Australia in the world’s leading secondary schools water science competition, the Stockholm Junior Water Prize, held in Sweden.

Australia’s ocean energy company BioPower Systems and engineering and technology company Siemens have announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding to evaluate and develop joint opportunities for ocean power conversion.

Western Corridor Recycled Water will receive $20 million over five years to host the National Centre of Excellence in Water Recycling in Brisbane.

New data centre technology that will use half the electricity of an average data centre system has been officially launched today by Richard Marles MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Innovation and Industry.

The NSW government will host a major business round table today to help develop the state’s sustainable retail market.

A new building featuring state-of-the-art, environmentally friendly biotechnology research laboratories has been opened in Canberra by the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr.

The Renewable Energy Target scheme has been decoupled from the defeated Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) and the bill was passed in the House of Representatives on Monday night. The Senate will vote on the bill before the end of the week.

Driving a garbage truck was not one of those items on my 'must do before you die' list, but I have now managed to tick it off anyway thanks to the Waste Management Masterclass 2009 organised by Volvo this month.

As expected, federal parliament has voted against the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) today. Senator Wong said it will be brought back into parliament before the end of the year. If defeated again, this could trigger an election.