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A Study of Australian Brands Using Reforestation Projects

The National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held in Brisbane from the 23-24 March 2017. Mr Ray Wilson, CEO of Carbon Neutral joins us to discuss ‘A Study of Australian Brands Using Reforestation Projects to Deliver Carbon Abatement and Sustainable Development Impacts’. Case studies are presented of leading Australian brands that are championing support for biodiverse reforestation as carbon reduction projects with important sustainable development outcomes. Their business cases for carbon neutrality are explored, including offset purchasing decisions and how they use their environmental programme and carbon neutrality to engage stakeholders, including supply chains. Early Bird registration closes this week on …

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Sustainable Building Practices Using the Green Star Certification Tool

The National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held in Brisbane from the 23-24 March 2017. Mr Adriaan Window, Sustainable Consulting Engineer at the University of Queensland and Umow Lai QLD Pty Ltd joins us to discuss ‘A Social and Environmental Cost-Benefit Analysis of Sustainable Building Practices Using the Green Star Certification Tool’. This research aims to create a cost-benefit analysis framework for evaluating the social and environmental factors that result from the implementation of the Australian Green Star certification scheme. Specifically, the framework is used to evaluate economic efficiency as a net present value of the marginal costs and benefits derived …

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A 2017 Case Study from a New Orleans Social Innovation Incubator Lab

The National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held in Brisbane from the 23-24 March 2017. Dr Virginia Munro PhD from Griffith University will join us to discuss ‘Twelve Years On: A 2017 Case Study from a New Orleans Social Innovation Incubator Lab – With Example Startups and Sustainable Enterprises (The Calm That Came from the 2005 Storm)’. This presentation discusses a Social Innovation Incubation Lab Virginia visited in New Orleans, Louisiana (USA) last year. The Social Innovation Incubation Lab has been assisting with social venture set-ups since 2009. When Virginia was invited to present on CSR Social Initiatives at the …

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Dr Jennifer Alden on ‘The Business of Sustaining our Edible Future’.

The National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held in Brisbane from the 23-24 March 2017. Dr Jennifer Alden is a Health Broker, her business Growing Change brings people together to activate ideas to improve community health and wellbeing.  Seeing the link between what we eat and how it affects our health and that of the planet, Growing Change was established to support local community food initiatives and to consult to organisations, government and community to create opportunities to strengthen local health, environmental and social outcomes in addition to supporting local food economies. Dr Jennifer Alden will join us at the conference …

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Introducing Keynote Speaker Miss Parrys Raines, Founder of Climate Girl.

The National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held the Hotel Grand Chancellor Brisbane from the 23-24 March 2017. We are pleased to announce Miss Parrys Raines, Founder of Climate Girl will be joining us as a Keynote Speaker at the 2017 National Sustainability in Business Conference in March and will discuss ‘Business as a Solution, Intergenerational Collaboration as a Platform’. Today’s youth will be the generation that proves business can be a force for good and etches into history that a primary role of business is to improve society. Young people believe that business will play a crucial role in …

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Introducing Peter Castellas, CEO of the Carbon Market Institute.

The National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held in Brisbane from the 23-24 March 2017. Peter Castellas is CEO of the Carbon Market Institute and will join us as a Keynote Speaker to discuss ‘The 2017 Climate Policy Review – Optimising Australia’s Position in the Transition to a Zero Carbon Economy.’ The Australian Government has scheduled a major review of domestic climate policy in 2017. The international target, set by Australia in our commitment under the Paris Agreement, of a 26-28 per cent reduction on 2005 levels by 2030 is a floor. The targets will be reviewed and strengthened over time …

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Mr Simon Berry, Partner at Berry Simons joins us in March

The National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held in Brisbane from the 23-24 March 2017. The Conference theme ‘Renewables – Markets – Innovation – Opportunities – Capital’ will address the need for sustainable business practices, and what this means in today’s ever-changing world. Mr Simon Berry, Partner at Berry Simons joins us in March to discuss ‘Geothermal Energy in New Zealand – An Overview’. New Zealand has installed geothermal generating capacity of 750MWe with produces around 13% of New Zealand’s electricity supply. Most growth has occurred since the 1990’s. This paper provides an overview of geothermal energy production in New …

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Mrs Lissa Barnum, CEO/Founder of Peopleness: Social Design Action

The National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held in Brisbane from the 23-24 March 2017. The Conference theme ‘Renewables – Markets – Innovation – Opportunities – Capital’ will address the need for sustainable business practices, and what this means in today’s ever-changing world. Mrs Lissa Barnum, CEO/Founder of Peopleness: Social Design Action joins us in March to discuss ‘Converging Design with Business – Energising Business Models for a New Human-Centred Economy’. Motivated by lectures in design, a short introduction to concepts around the Quadruple Bottom Line, i.e.  people, planet, profit, purpose, as well as the concept of ‘disruption’ (also employed …

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Tony Wood from Grattan Institute to Keynote in March

The National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held in Brisbane from the 23-24 March 2017. The Conference theme ‘Renewables – Markets – Innovation – Opportunities – Capital’ will address the need for sustainable business practices, and what this means in today’s ever-changing world. Tony Wood from the Grattan Institute joins us in March and will keynote on the topic ‘Zero-emissions energy: dreams and nightmares’. Wind and solar energy have been rapidly adopted by Australians. More than 40 per cent of South Australia’s electricity comes from wind and more Australian homes have solar PV on their roofs than just about anywhere else …

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Lego-like buildings to tackle sustainability in the Australian housing market

Castlemaine architect Simon Disler thinks there is a crucial missing step when designing more sustainable houses for the mass housing market: flexibility. “We wanted to come up with a building concept that was really about having a modular floor planning system that means you can shuffle the parts of the building around to adapt to a site to get good performance,” Mr Disler said. That means thinking about lot size and orientation and then adapting a floor plan to the site so that a house faces the sun. He said this step is a cost-effective way to save energy consumption …

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