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Sunshine Coast TAFE certified carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... benchmark for other educational institutions and communities to follow." SCT also reduced waste to landfill by a quarter, adapted air conditioning operation and maintenance, installed energy efficient lighting and added two new hybrid vehicles to their ...

Low Carbon Australia partners with Macquarie Equipment Finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... Asset Financing Program will provide financing for lighting systems, heating, variable speed drives, metering, ventilation and air-conditioning, computer, communications and office equipment, co-generation and tri-generation and other energy efficient ...

Pacific Hydro reduces carbon footprint 37%

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... the first of the three geographic business units to commence tracking indirect (scope 3) greenhouse gas emissions such as air travel." The company will continue to work to reduce its carbon footprint and will develop a corporate environmental audit program ...

ANZ's employee engagement, net profit increases

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... acquisitions, has led to an increase in the absolute carbon emissions associated with the energy used at our data centres and our air travel. Business growth and ANZ's rebranding in 2010 also affected our ability to reduce customer paper usage despite ...

Elders reports increased lost time injury frequency rate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... McGrath Elders Breast Care Nurse. The nurse is based at the Royal Flying Doctor Service base in Broken Hill and travels by air to support Australian families in rural and remote areas experiencing breast cancer. During the year, Elders Rural Services ...

Bradbury highlights corporate ESG reporting inconsistencies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
Institutional investors will demand explanation for discrepancies between companies' nominated environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles and any divergences in practice in the way that they currently question discrepancies in financial matters ...

LGS uses trigeneration technology for property retrofit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... was a tri-generation project that combined cooling, heat and power using Australian technologies such as the Shaw method of air conditioning (SMAC), Envirolight E1 lights, Bennett Clayton engines and Power Pax Chillers as key parts of the refurbishment. ...

Jillian Broadbent to chair Clean Energy Finance Corp panel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The Gillard government has created an expert review panel to advise on the design of the AU$10bn Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), which is expected to commence operations from 2013-2014. Jillian Broadbent, a board member of the Reserve Bank ...

GRI release reporting standards for construction and real estate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has released standards specific to the construction and real estate sectors, demonstrating how companies can report carbon emissions, management and remediation of contaminated land, and sub-contracted labour issues ...

Local Government Super properties awarded 6 NABERS stars

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... completed the majority of our upgrades using leading edge Australian technologies such as E1 Lighting and the Shaw Method of Air Conditioning. These technologies have enabled us to make large gains in energy efficiency in existing buildings. We will ...