Sustainability

Crowne Plaza Melbourne installs sustainability indicator for improved energy efficiency

15 April, 2010

Crowne Plaza Melbourne has installed a mySmart enGauge screen to provide its employees and customers with visibility into real-time and historical energy-usage data from across the hotel.


Council climate change alliance to transform Melbourne's northern suburbs

13 April, 2010

A local government alliance across Melbourne’s northern suburbs has launched a strategic blueprint - the first of its kind in Australia - for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by 2020.


Metal Work Pneumatic Pneumo-Power electric generator powered by air

13 April, 2010 | Supplied by: Metal Work Pneumatic Australia Pty Ltd

Pneumo-Power incorporates an electric generator powered either by exhaust air (reduced environmental impact) or a compressed air supply to create 24 VDC locally where wiring may be costly or impractical to install.


Crowne Plaza Melbourne increases energy efficiency

31 March, 2010 | Supplied by: mySmart Pty Ltd

Crowne Plaza Melbourne is a 4.5 star hotel which is now recognised internationally with ‘Green Globe Bronze’, a worldwide benchmarking and certification program which facilitates sustainable management and operations. Green Globe certification standards cover: environment and energy (70%), conservation (10%) and corporate social responsibility (20%). The hotel is now working to achieve ‘Green Globe Silver’ status.


Formula Hydrogen speeding to a world record

31 March, 2010

The RMIT University team behind Australia’s first hydrogen racing car is celebrating another milestone, with the clean and green racer reaching a world record speed for its class in trials recently held in Germany.


Wyndham Civic Centre lights up

30 March, 2010 | Supplied by: Pecan Solar Lighting Pty Ltd

Werribee City Council recently completed the upgrading of the lighting in the car parks and roadways of the Wyndham Civic Centre in Victoria. After careful consideration of the available energy-efficient lighting options, including T5 and CFL options, the council chose a Pecan Lighting Grid Tied Solar Public Lighting (GTSPL) system using Beta-LED LEDway luminaires. The supplier, Lateral Technology, worked with the council’s engineering consultants to provide technical and historical information on the system.


National environment company buys SA firm

29 March, 2010

The national environmental engineering contractor Enviropacific has acquired the Adelaide-based firm Remediate.


Smart lighting reducing energy

26 March, 2010 | Supplied by: Mobile Automation

Cummins designs, manufactures, distributes and services engines and related technologies, including fuel systems, controls, air handling, filtration, emission solutions and electrical power generation systems. Cummins serves customers in approximately 190 countries and territories through a network of more than 500 company-owned and independent distributor locations and approximately 5200 dealer locations.


The link between sustainability and business performance

26 March, 2010 by David Trewin*, Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water NSW

There’s been an exciting shift in sustainability in the past five years - businesses have realised there’s no disconnect between good environmental management and business performance. We help these businesses integrate environmental and other business activities to reap productivity increases and reduced costs - all the while improving our sustainability.


Technology - the key to sustainability

26 March, 2010 by Nikki Williams*, NSW Minerals Council

The NSW Minerals Council recognised that climate change was a major issue more than a decade ago and the mining industry is now positioning itself to be part of the solution - it is currently developing sophisticated technology to reduce emissions and to capture and store carbon.


R&D Tax Concession assists tyre recycling company

26 March, 2010 | Supplied by: AusIndustry

Melbourne-based company Tyre Crumb is recycling every component of tyres - the rubber, the steel and even the polyester fibre. All of these tyre elements are then crushed and used in everything from playground and sporting surfaces to carpet underlay and even shoe soles.


Driving sustainable change

26 March, 2010 | Supplied by: VECCI

Isuzu Australia Limited (IAL), and the truck industry in general, is working hard to overcome the perceived dirty image of trucks belching black smoke. Paul Evans, IAL’s Business Planning Manager and Company Secretary said, “Trucks have made considerable gains over the last decade, due to a range of new technologies, making trucks greener and more economical than ever before. In fact, 60 of today’s new trucks produce less carbon emissions than just one truck in 1995!”


Wyndham Civic Centre lights up

26 March, 2010 | Supplied by: Lateral Technology

Werribee City Council recently completed the upgrading of the lighting in the car parks and roadways of the Wyndham Civic Centre in Victoria. After careful consideration of the available energy-efficient lighting options, including T5 and CFL options, the council chose a Pecan Lighting Grid Tied Solar Public Lighting (GTSPL) system using Beta-LED LEDway luminaires. The supplier, Lateral Technology, worked with the council’s engineering consultants to provide technical and historical information on the system.


Unsure about sceptics?

26 March, 2010 by Scott Losee*, AECOM

There is a subtle but pervasive challenge in working as a climate change practitioner, namely, dealing with sceptics. When one works day to day in helping to mobilise the immense global effort which is required to claw back human-induced climate change, it is easy to forget not everybody’s ‘on board’.


Councils work with national waterwise label

26 March, 2010

Now with widespread federal and state government support and good recognition of water conservation issues at the consumer level, Australia’s independent national outdoor water-saving label, Smart Approved WaterMark, is seeking greater involvement from local government in water-saving programs.


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