Sustainability
Sydney cops damaging sustainability blow
Harvey Grennan SYDNEY ranks a lowly 12th in the first survey by the Australian Conservation Foundation of the sustainability of Australia's 20 largest cities.
Dick's blonde ambition: $1m cash to save civilisation
Glenda Kwek Dick Smith wants to save the world from population growth, and he is willing to pay $1 million for it.
Goulburn option for Sydney's rubbish
Brian Robins The private operator of the Woodlawn waste site near Goulburn is seeking to nearly treble the amount of Sydney's refuse it can handle as pressure mounts on the city's declining landfill capacity.
It pays to follow sale trail
Keeli Cambourne Caring for the environment doesn't have to start on a grand scale.
Driving force of eco-race
Keeli Cambourne It's one thing to make a passing gesture towards the environmental movement; it's another to commit passionately to the cause for many years.
Joint clean-up effort breathes life into waterway
Keeli Cambourne For decades the Cooks River has had a reputation as one of the country's dirtiest waterways — lethal to marine life and unsafe for swimmers.
Change is purely academic
Keeli Cambourne Macquarie University's approach to sustainability involves everyone from the top down. The learning institution, which won the Public Sector Sustainability Award at the 2010 Green Globes, impressed...
Theatre project shines brightly
Under its high-profile leadership team, the Sydney Theatre Company has introduced a string of green initiatives. Those efforts have now been officially recognised, writes Keeli Cambourne.
Sustaining the passion
As the community's interest in the environment has grown, so has recognition for those who do the right thing, writes Keeli Cambourne.
PhD anarchist's vendetta against Labor's climate policy
The self-confessed anarchist who crashed Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s climate change announcement in Brisbane won’t be charged.
Family move into house to test latest low-energy gadgets
Ben Cubby A family of three are moving into a green technology-packed home to test life in an energy-constrained future.
Green loans hit by graft charges
Lenore Taylor The Gillard government is investigating allegations of kickbacks to staff at the Environment Department after damning reports into the $175 million green loan scheme that also found chaotic...
Potent message in bottles
Sarah Whyte IT'S a message carried in 12,500 bottles across the seas, and it says one thing: eliminate waste.
Japan, Iceland rebuke critics at whaling talks
Japan and Iceland scolded critics Tuesday at crunch talks on the future of commercial whaling, saying they had offered huge concessions while pro-conservationists had refused to compromise.
A family affair to test low-energy gadgets
Ben Cubby ENVIRONMENT EDITOR AS THE federal government puts the finishing touches to its new climate change policy, one Sydney family is embarking on a year-long experiment to live in an energy-constrained home of the future.
Greenpeace opens can on tuna brands
The tide is turning on Australian supermarkets, with consumer demand forcing two chains to start stocking sustainable tinned tuna.
Canny recycling scheme offers $168m saving
Ben Cubby and Melissa Singer A national recycling scheme for cans and bottles would save the NSW public $168 million a year, according to an independent study using data from a secret federal government report.
City council to take alternative route to renewable energy
Josephine Tovey The City of Sydney is expected to turn its back on an important part of state and federal efforts to tackle climate change by withdrawing from the GreenPower scheme and instead pursuing its own...
Brazil rainforest logging increases malaria rates
Logging of tropical forests can boost the incidence of malaria in the surrounding area by nearly 50 percent, according to new research tracking deforestation in Brazil's Amazon.
Landholders may get priority in coastal bill
Brian Robins STATE POLITICS THE state government is under pressure to defer legislation to give landholders the right to protect their property from rising sea levels amid concerns about the public losing access to beaches.
