ABC News13 October 2008 A company is planning to build a $70 million solar cell factory in Canberra which could generate more than 100 jobs. Spark Solar Australia hopes to build the factory next year with sites in Hume and …
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The Australian Greens Victoria have just launched a new Melbourne transport website and discussion paper called The People Plan. This would cost $4 billion less than theEddington proposals and deliver a massive increase in public transport usage, right across Melbourne. …
The Age13 October 2008 ONLY one out of every 100 residents in some of Melbourne’s outer suburbs use public transport alone to get to work, a report shows. The parliamentary report into outer suburban economic development found that in one …
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The Australian23 October 2008 NSW Premier Nathan Rees has revealed just how close the state came to running out of water in February.In a speech to the opening of the 9th World Congress of Metropolis in Sydney, Mr Rees said …
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The Herald Sun24 October 2008 MELBOURNE’S water storages have dropped for the second week in a row, leaving the city with only 34.2 per cent of its capacity. The state’s drought has continued to play havoc with Melbourne’s storages after …
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The Australian17 October 2008 TOOWOOMBA will become the first large urban centre to draw its town water from the Great Artesian Basin, with more than 400 megalitres a month to be extracted to meet the needs of the drought-ravaged city …
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The Herald Sun13 October 2008 HALF a billion litres of pure drinking water is being wasted each year in Victoria to test fire sprinkler systems in high-rise buildings and shopping centres. The wasted water could fill 200 Olympic-sized pools when …
Andrew Campbell’s presentation to the 2008 actKM Conference looks at climate change impacts and the implications for how we learn and manage knowledge at all levels and across all sectors of the economy and society. Organised by the actKM Forum, …
The 15 October 2008 edition of CO2 News includes: COAG agrees to develop national energy efficiency strategy Contract awarded for development of national emissions registry Wave energy could supply 35% of Australia’s power needs: report Councils develop model methods for …
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Phase 2 of the Land & Water Australia Knowledge for Regional NRM Program has won a Platinum Award in the actKM Forum 2008 Knowledge Management Awards. The award was announced at 2008 actKM Forum Conference dinner on 14 October 2008 …
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