In 2015, the Places You Love Alliance will host the National Nature Conversation. All Australians are invited to register to be involved. The Places You Love Alliance is a coalition of 42 Australian environment groups that has been working to …
Some scientists argue that we have entered a new epoch in planetary history: the Anthropocene. In such an era of planet-wide transformation, we need a new model for planet-wide environmental politics. This book proposes “earth system” governance as just such a …
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Community gardeners and urban farmers can use an innovative research toolkit developed in New York City to measure and track the impacts of their work (with thanks to The Nature of Cities).
Finbox has been developed as a resource to help guide anyone from community groups, natural resource management groups or catchment management authorities, through to government agencies in establishing a demonstration reach, which is a reach of river or area of …
A quarter of Australian homes have installed a rainwater tank, but CSIRO has found that households may not be aware of some of the maintenance requirements that come with rainwater tank ownership. In response, CSIRO has put together top 5 …
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The Alternative Technology Association (ATA) has published the eBooks Water Efficiency Around the Home and Green Home Cooling.
This free eBook includes a selection of twelve of the most popular and provocative stories from the CityLab nine-month series on the future of transportation. The stories are focused on the U.S. but relevant to transport discussions in many major …
Contrary to a widely held view, OECD analysis finds that while environmental policies have become increasingly stringent in the past two decades, tighter environmental policies have had little effect on productivity growth.
The Sustainable Cities Index explores the three demands of People, Planet and Profit to develop an indicative ranking of 50 of the world’s leading cities. Sydney ranked 11 and Melbourne 17.
Over 98 percent of the universities invited to participate in the Asset Owners Disclosure Project Global Universities Index are rated D, meaning that their climate change risk management is poor, or rated X, meaning that no information at all could …
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