The Hunter Environmental Institute (HEI) is a non-profit organisation established in 1988 to provide a forum for the interaction of people working in environmentally oriented fields in the Hunter Region of NSW. Major events are the bi-monthly afternoon meetings featuring …
Hunter Air and Health is a community resource on air quality and health in the rapidly developing Hunter Valley of NSW to improve planning, empower community environmental advocates, and support environmental conflict resolution. It includes an “infomap”, which is a …
Australia has one of the highest rates of asbestos related diseases in the world. With almost every home built or renovated before the mid 1980s likely to contain asbestos in one form or another, the third wave of people affected …
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The International Network for Urban Agriculture (INUAg) is based in Chicago, USA serving a global membership. INUAg envisions communities worldwide reconnected to the production of their food. INUAg’s mission is to inspire and foster urban farming through networking, education, and …
Once held up as the epicentre of industrialised mass production, Detroit has for decades been portrayed as a failed economy beset with every kind of urban problem. However, The Conversation article Urban farming in Detroit: sowing seeds of hope in …
The 3rd National Sustainable Food Summit addresses ‘how do we get to where we need to go?’, mapping out how transformational change might occur within our food system over the next 50 years with a focus on immediate and emerging …
3rd National Sustainable Food Summit, Melbourne, 20-21 March 2013 Read more »
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Urban Environment News wishes you a happy and safe festive season and a great start to 2013 – many thanks for your support throughout 2012! Urban Environment News will be back with you again in January.
The Hestia Project™ of the Arizona State University can quantify, simulate and visualise the metabolism of greenhouse gas emitting activity down to the building and street level. Hestia can provide stakeholders an unprecedented opportunity to design and implement carbon management …
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The Energy Efficiency Information Grants Program is a $40 million merit-based, competitive grants program established by the Commonwealth Government to assist industry associations and non-profits provide practical, tailored energy efficiency information to small and medium enterprises and community organisations. Round …
Energy Efficiency Information Grants Program – Round 2 closes 20 December Read more »