Brisbane City Council is partnering with Green Building Council of Australia on Green Star Communities. Green Star Communities aims to develop a framework and a tool that assists in the assessment of communities against best practice sustainable benchmarks.
The Australian Conservation Foundation’s Sustainable Cities Index provides a snapshot of comparative performance in each of Australia’s 20 largest cities, with the aim of encouraging healthy competition, stimulating discussion and suggesting new ways of thinking about our cities. In 2010 …
Sustainable Cities Index – ranking Australia’s 20 largest cities in 2010 Read more »
The latest edition of the Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy e-journal is now available and includes the editorial ‘Sustainability science: the emerging paradigm and the ecology of cities’.
The Local Government Sustainable Development 2010 Conference is designed to assist local government practitioners to identify, plan and implement best practice sustainable development solutions.
The Sustainable Illawarra project has produced the excellent Sustainable Living Guide and Sustainable Shopping Guide resources.
Keep Australia Beautiful NSW Sustainable Cities is the leading environmental and community awards program for NSW urban communities. This prestigious program recognises outstanding environmental initiatives implemented by local government authorities, schools, businesses and community groups, whilst raising awareness of a …
Keep Australia Beautiful (NSW) Sustainable Cities 2010 Awards Dinner 29 July Read more »
What impact will the debate over sustainable population for Australia have on our existing cities? The 3rd Annual Urban Design Conference will examine how our new cities are conceived and our existing ones are adapted, re-designed and managed.
On 5 March 2010, the Australian Government launched the State of Australian Cities 2010 report. The report draws together existing data and information across a range of economic, social and environmental parameters to provide a national snapshot of the 17 …
The Fact Sheet: China Emerging as New Leader in Clean Energy Policies details how, in the last two years, China has implemented a series of ambitious clean energy policies that will help to dramatically reduce the growth of the country’s …
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Visit Sanctuary magazine’s sustainable house profiles page and click on the locations on the map to read articles about leading sustainable homes around Australia as featured in the highly regarded Sanctuary magazine.