National peak industry body for the recyling industry launched
07 September, 2010
A new national peak industry lobby organisation has been launched in Sydney at the Australasian Industrial Ecology Conference.
Electrical distribution SCADA solution for power efficiency
01 September, 2010
Schneider Electric has launched its PowerLogic SCADA software, which is a complete monitoring and control solution for electrical distribution networks. Having applied the insights and experience of working with major industry segments, Schneider Electric’s PowerLogic SCADA delivers a reliable, flexible and high-performance solution to reduce outages and increase power efficiency.
Lord Stern visits Global CCS Institute
31 August, 2010
Lord Nicholas Stern visited the Global CCS Institute in August to discuss his role in advancing commercial deployment of carbon capture and storage, ensuring that the technology plays a role in responding to the world’s need for a low carbon energy future.
Better Place extends Tokyo trial
27 August, 2010
Better Place has announced that it has extended its switchable-battery electric vehicle taxi pilot in Tokyo to operate through the end of the year.
Fresh science
26 August, 2010
Cling wrap that captures CO2 and a recycling technique for pig waste are two of the research discoveries in this year’s Fresh Science competition. The national competition identifies new and interesting research being done by early-career scientists from around the country and then helps them present their research to the public.
A commitment to sustainable packaging
26 August, 2010 by Edward Cordner*
Since 2000, the National Packaging Covenant (Covenant) has been an innovative and unique national approach to dealing with packaging waste. It has engaged the packaging supply and recovery chains, governments and community groups. There was a specific target to divert high-embodied energy materials from landfill and through these activities contribute to a reduction in GHG emissions.
Mining technology looks to a sustainable future
26 August, 2010 by Sylvia Aitken
Sustainability and mining are two words that don’t quite seem to fit together. But with evolving social expectations, and under increasing public and media scrutiny, the past decade has seen the mining industry put in a huge effort into sustainable development in order to maintain its ‘social licence to operate’.
Concept to creation: agricultural waste to energy
26 August, 2010
Engineers Australia has selected the ‘Make it so’ idea, which will be made a reality by the engineering profession. It is to ‘make it so’ developing communities can re-use their agricultural waste to create energy for cooking and heating.
Complying with greenhouse and energy reporting
26 August, 2010 | Supplied by: Ndevr Pty Ltd
As the 2009/10 financial year comes to a close, corporations are busy with their financial reporting requirements. The end of the fiscal year also signifies the approach of greenhouse gas and energy reporting deadlines under the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 (NGER Act), where corporations over a certain size are required to report their emissions and energy by 31 October.
Global market for Australian water technology
26 August, 2010
As a country which has continually had to deal with the scarcity of water, Australia is ideally placed to become a leader in the US$400 billion global water market. But a detailed analysis of our water innovation patents has found Australian companies are failing to leverage their valuable intellectual property (IP) into global markets.
Inspiring smarter solutions
26 August, 2010
The Plastiki, a 60-foot (18.2 m) catamaran made from plastic bottles, sailed into Sydney Harbour on Monday 26 July. Designed to raise awareness of the amount of plastic waste in the ocean and plant the seed in everyone’s mind to think about minimising waste and re-using materials intelligently, the Plastiki expedition is the creation of adventurer and environmentalist David de Rothschild and his organisation, Adventure Ecology.
Ecolabelling has appeal
25 August, 2010
Sellers using ecolabels backed with the right information could make as many as 85% of New Zealanders more likely to buy a product.
Progress on energy management standard
23 August, 2010
The future ISO 50001 standard for energy management was recently approved as a Draft International Standard (DIS).
Dimpleflo modular heat exchangers
20 August, 2010 | Supplied by: Teralba Industries Pty Ltd
The Dimpleflo modular heat exchangers can be used to recover energy from any warm or hot product or effluent.
Bringing light to heritage landmark
19 August, 2010 | Supplied by: mySmart Pty Ltd
Today’s emerging sustainability requirements in the building industry are creating new types of considerations, particularly when designing modern solutions for heritage-listed properties.
