Greenheart Project is creating the world’s first completely open source small-scale, solar-sail cargo ship. Not the traditional, square-rigged tall ship of the nineteenth century, but a completely modern, efficient, cooperative trading vessel, powered by the sun and the wind alone. …
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The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) is inviting submissions on the draft Code of Practice for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material (2014) by 28 March 2014.
The NSW Natural Resources Commission (NRC) has released a draft report outlining findings and draft recommendations for its review of weed management in NSW. The NRC invites your comment on the draft recommendations by 6 April 2014.
UTS is conducting an evaluation of the Who Cares about the Environment? research program and invites you to participate in an online survey by Friday 14 March 2014. Who Cares about the Environment? is a social research program that measures …
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The Community Climate Chest or ‘C3’ gives households and businesses access to cheaper, tax-deductible GreenPower and carbon offsets on-line, while directing a share of the proceeds to local environmental groups. The not-for-profit C3 scheme offers the community cheaper GreenPower from …
Regional towns and new housing estates could function viably and economically off the electricity grid, a new report reveals. The report, What Happens When We Un-Plug: Exploring the Consumer and Market Implications of Viable Off-Grid Energy Supply, found many Victorians …
The impacts of climate change are expected to create numerous challenges for cities. This OECD Working Paper synthesises key points raised in a series of discussions among “adaptation leaders” from fourteen cities around the world. Critical issues for urban adaptation …
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The new C40 Cities report Climate Action in Megacities demonstrates a clear trend of expanding and accelerating climate action in the world’s megacities. Climate actions, such as implementing rigorous energy efficiency regulations for buildings, instituting bus rapid transit lines or …
CSIRO is undertaking research to better address public perceptions and understandings of climate change. Four online surveys were undertaken at approximately yearly intervals from 2010 until 2013. The 2013 survey found that previous experience with extreme climate and weather events was positively …
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In research published in the journal Nature, CSIRO and an international team of scientists have revealed global maps showing how fast and in which direction local climates are shifting. This new study points to a simpler way of looking at …
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