Architects, designers and building officials are among the attendees expected at a series of seminars to be presented by senior BRANZ scientists, Nigel Isaacs and Michael Camilleri, and Department of Building & Housing Building Standards Advisors, Nick Locke and Stephen Ward, in November and December.

CSR Ethanol Agservices has received the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) Value-Adding Award at the 2007 NAB Agribusiness Awards for Excellence Ceremony.

An innovation fund to encourage smart innovations that will lead to the uptake of solar water heating and heat pump water heating technologies has been launched by Jeanette Fitzsimmons, Government Spokesperson on Energy Efficiency and Conservation (EECA).

Businesses, community groups, research organisations and individuals with sustainable water use projects have until 9 November 2007 to submit applications for Round 5 Smart Water Fund funding.

ScottishPower energy company has put forward revolutionary plans to convert its two biggest power stations to clean-coal technology.

A mobile glass crusher will help increase New Zealand’s ability to recycle glass, according to Environment Minister David Parker.

A Monash University environmental engineer has warned in a new report that mineral resources are running out, excavation costs are escalating and the environmental costs of mining are devastating.

Emissions trading as a solution to global warming will go under the spotlight when key commentators tackle the subject at a seminar in Sydney on 1 November, organised by the NSW Division of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE).

Australia’s Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment (CRC CARE) and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK) have joined forces on research and training for contamination risk assessment and clean-up.

Smart Approved WaterMark, a national independent symbol to show that a product can save water around the home, was launched at National Water Week along with its new website: www.smartwatermark.org.

Westpac has announced it is the only bank in the world, and one of just four companies in the Global FT500 list, to achieve a 100-point, AAA rating in the 2007 Climate Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI).

A decline in carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions absorbed by land and oceans is speeding up the growth of atmospheric CO₂, according to a paper published recently in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

Armstrong World Industries recently won the federal government’s Greenhouse Challenge Plus Award in Canberra.

A study of Australian investment in the emerging cleantech (or clean technologies) sector has found a higher proportion of local cleantech investments in agriculture, energy storage, transportation and water than has been the case in North America and Europe.

Australian geothermal energy company KUTh Energy Limited has announced the first appointment to its Technical Advisory Board.