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The trade winds of law will reshape the corporate landscape – Whole of...
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views This new column from Baker McKenzie critiques the expanding universe of whole of environment (WOE) law across Australia. It...
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Imagine electric trucks and trains hauling portable energy storage – or...
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views There are new delays to the transition of the grid – objections to use of private land for renewable energy transmission...
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Heritage and telling Sydney’s story
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views The current conversation about heritage in Sydney is needed and language used when talking about heritage may help. Heritage...
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5 lessons in infrastructure sustainability and the language of change
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views Sustainability is no longer a complex lexicon for technical specialists and specifiers. It’s a shared language and a shared...
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Glencore’s carbon capture and storage and the threat to the Great Artesian Basin
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views No carbon capture and storage project has ever achieved the required rates of sequestration, and worse is that they see the...
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Tree canopy in Greater Sydney, how are we doing?
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views New data shows that while canopy cover is declining in the leafier eastern areas of Sydney and it’s increased slightly in...
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The emerging nature repair market and its new investment opportunities and...
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views There’s money that stands to be made in the nature repair market but we’re in a post offsets world so how do we unlock value...
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NSW Productivity Commissioner calls for more homes in inner areas but...
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views The latest report by the NSW Productivity Commission continues its series of reports promoting more supply of new housing...
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‘I developed a food design methodology with urban design, anthropology,...
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views The typology of our built environment influences our behavioural patterns with food, says Dolly Daou. ‘I developed a food...
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3 ways to build sustainable workspaces in 2024
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views Two months into 2024, and the corporate world noticed that the landscape is being defined by an urgency to embrace ESG...
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WorstConnex – when taxpayers spend $20 billion to relocate a traffic jam
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views The time-honoured technique to deflect unwanted scrutiny of poor decision making is to narrow the frame of inquiry. That way,...
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Knock, knock, knocking on density’s door!
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views TOD was crying into his Reschs with joy when he hooked up with high-rise and low-rise late last year. It seemed like all his...
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A changemaker’s toolkit – #1 Time to resource ‘we the changemakers’ for our...
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views Elena Bondareva is well known to many in the sustainability field. She is author of a new book on how to effect change in...
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Greenwashing – millions of reasons to avoid it and be alert (but not alarmed)
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views Whole of Environment Report #3 Greenwashing is an older problem than it seems, even if it’s taken on a new significance for...
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Eight ways to improve housing
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views There is no silver bullet for housing affordability – but here are some clear thought out steps that are well rounded and not...
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Housing in Australia must become part of the circular economy – here’s how...
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views Transitioning to a circular economy model for the Australian housing sector is more pressing than ever. Recent AHURI research...
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Gas burning is down – by a lot. So what’s the energy regulator AEMO doing,...
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views The rate at which we burn fossil gas in eastern Australia continues to fall. The recent annual report by the Australian Energy...
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Light or dark roofs and other complexities
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views I will declare, my Melbourne roof is coated by an advanced heat reflecting, insulating coating. It has helped to make my home...
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Australia didn’t sign up to the Global Cooling Pledge at COP28 but the heat’s...
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views Australia hasn’t signed up to the Global Cooling Pledge – but that doesn’t mean HVAC is off the hook. Our two biggest states...
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What if I told you that powerful transformation does not require changing...
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views In this second article in the series on how to equip changemakers to change the world for the better, Elena Bondareva...
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Sydney Metro – will it change your life or kill your suburb?
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views The NSW government says Sydney Metro West is set to “supercharge housing supply” by adding more stations and building high...
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With the rising trend of stakeholder activism, don’t even think about...
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views Greenwashing is fraught with risks and diminishing returns. With the rising trend of stakeholder activism, don’t even think...
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Methane abatement in coal mining needs to become the rule rather than the...
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views IEEFA's Andrew Gorringe looks at the cost of methane abatement and whether Queensland is making a good economic choice in...
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Facades will make or break city electrification
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views Retrofitting commercial buildings is hard enough but the upgrade of facades is often seen as too hard, too expensive and too...
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The government has taken a bold new stance on industry policy. Here’s how it...
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views Can the Albanese government’s proposed new Future Made in Australia Act “draw together the threads” of industrial development...
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Renting in Queensland is not good for our health
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views The Queensland government Stage 2 Rentals Reforms are up for consultation and renters need the Queensland government to do...
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Urban design has a dark side to its creativity – two projects in Brisbane...
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views Aggressive forms of “hostile architecture” can be highly problematic. Urban designers need to broaden their understanding of...
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Real affordable housing is possible
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views Offered a choice between reviewing housing policy or a sly session of nasal mining, most sane pleasure seekers will go for the...
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High price for conservatives losing ideological soul over carbon pricing –...
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views Nearly a quarter of the way through the 21st century, Australia’s liberal, market-based democracy is looking increasingly...
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Regurgitators Anonymous – from the leadership of Swiss women to litigation on...
The Fifth Estate - Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views This fourth column in our series recognises the frustrations and promises of the WOE business. As pressure accelerates on the...
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