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Steven Marshall welcomes Elon Musk and wants to cut energy costs

Incoming South Australian Premier Steven Marshall says cutting energy costs to business and households is a major priority for his new government, with a $200 million inter-connector fund a centrepiece of his plans to deliver cheaper power. Mr Marshall is also getting on the front foot with a proposal for a $100 million household storage battery fund, which would provide means-tested grants of around $2500 to households with solar panels that want to install home storage batteries. It would cover about 40,000 households. Getting the fund up and running is among the projects earmarked for the first 100 days of …

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Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef: going beyond our backyard to protect the reef

From place-based to problem-based campaigns, we are seeing a rise in initiatives aiming to foster collective environmental stewardship among concerned citizens across the globe. These international communities have arisen to meet new environmental challenges and seize the opportunities presented by our increasingly connected world. Traditional approaches to community engagement have tended to focus only on the involvement of local people. However, the recently launched Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef initiative highlights the changing nature of community engagement aimed at fostering environmental stewardship. In a globalised world, maintaining treasures like the Great Barrier Reef and other ecosystems affected by global-scale threats demands …

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Opportunities for Sustainable Urbanism from The Rise of Autonomous Vehicles

The 2018 National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held this week over Thursday 8 and Friday 9 March at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Brisbane.  Ms Jessica Holz, Senior Ecologically Sustainable Design Engineer at Aurecon joins us at the Conference and will discuss ‘Opportunities for Sustainable Urbanism from The Rise of Autonomous Vehicles’. The rise of autonomous vehicles at a time of rapid technological and associated behavioural changes, population growth, and pressured natural resources presents exciting opportunities for sustainable urbanism. Autonomous vehicle technology is advancing quickly, with trials already underway in various Australian cities and international locations. Experts agree that the positive …

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Yellow Fridges Are A Great Anti-Waste Solution!

The start-up collects any meals not served in company canteens and gives them away. A clever solution that helps tackle food waste. Canteens waste a lot of food. According to ADEME (the French agency for the environment and energy management), collective catering is responsible for wasting 540,000 tonnes of food every year in France – that’s more than 1 million meals lost! Recovering food waste To fight this particular source of food waste, the “yellow fridge” (lefrigojaune) start-up set up in 2016 by Laurence Kerjean, found a very clever solution. A yellow fridge for the meals not eaten at lunch, which employees can then …

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Banking on Shared Value – The Bendigo Pathway

The 2018 National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held next week over Thursday 8 and Friday 9 March at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Brisbane.  Kate Wakeling, State Community Manager – Queensland at Bendigo Bank joins us next week at the Conference as a Keynote Speaker and will present ‘Banking on Shared Value – The Bendigo Pathway’. Banking on Shared Value – The Bendigo Pathway Shared Value is a concept now gaining global momentum, although it has been central to the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank strategy for its entire 160 year history. With big banks, big business and our institutions such …

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Queensland’s journey towards ZNE 2050

The 2018 National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held over Thursday 8 and Friday 9 March at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Brisbane.  Tony Roberts, Deputy Director-General, Environmental Policy and Planning at the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection joins us at the Conference as a Keynote Speaker to discuss ‘Queensland’s journey towards ZNE 2050’. The Queensland Government is committed to playing its part in the global effort to address the impacts of climate change and has set an ambitious target of transitioning the State to a zero net emission economy by 2050. The Government will achieve this outcome by preparing …

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Rethinking Sustainability to Enable a Circular Economy (Or to Resource the World)

The 2018 National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held over Thursday 8 and Friday 9 March at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Brisbane.  Ms Simone Looi-Britton, Sustainability & Public Policy General Manager, Veolia Australia and New Zealand joins us at the Conference as a Keynote Speaker to discuss ‘Rethinking Sustainability to Enable a Circular Economy (Or to Resource the World)’. Veolia is committed to rethinking sustainability to create a greener future for our customers, our communities and ourselves. We rethink water through reuse, rethink waste through recycling and rethink energy through regeneration. By using yesterday’s old to build a new tomorrow globally, …

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Jurlique International – Sustainability has been part of our DNA since 1985

The 2018 National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held over Thursday 8 and Friday 9 March at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Brisbane.  Jurlique is an Australian based global skin care company, founded in 1985 and based in the pristine Adelaide Hills. The company has been named as Australia’s Number 1 selling prestige skincare brand from 2014 to 2016, it  is present in over 22 countries and has been successful both due to the unique product characteristics and due to the brand which resonates with consumers globally. Jon Westover, Managing Director – Global Operations at Jurlique International joins us at the Conference as …

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The Business Case for Packaging Sustainability

The 2018 National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held over Thursday 8 and Friday 9 March at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Brisbane.  Dr Helen Lewis, Adjunct Professor, Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS joins us at the upcoming 2018 National Sustainability in Business Conference in Brisbane as a Keynote Speaker to discuss ‘The Business Case for Packaging Sustainability’. Most organisations deal with packaging every day. If they don’t make or sell packaging, or packaged products, they generate packaging waste at their farm, factory, office, warehouse, store or building site. Packaging sustainability is therefore a challenge that we all share. Community …

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Dr Mark Tatam from Kingspan Insulated Panels to join us in March

The 2018 National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held over Thursday 8 and Friday 9 March at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Brisbane.  The 2nd annual conference will explore sustainability best practice within organisations, creating resilience in business and ways to implement change. 2018 Topics Include: Integration Politics Technology automation Future of renewables Procurement Food security Sustainable construction Waste as a resource Click here to download the conference program. Dr Mark Tatam, Building Technology Director at Kingspan Insulated Panels joins us in a few weeks at the Conference to discuss ‘Triple Bottom Line Performance and Sustainability – Kingspan Insulated Panels and The …

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