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Low Carbon Australia finances Richgro waste-to-energy plant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... has provided finance for an anaerobic digestion plant for garden products supplier Richgro, allowing the company to adopt waste-to-energy technology. The anaerobic digestion plant is expected to be operational by June 2013 and is expected to have a capacity ...

Low Carbon Australia finances second Wagga Wagga project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... buildings are expected to drop by 23%. "Councils are responsible for street lighting, recreation and cultural centres and waste facilities that can be high energy users and carbon emitters," said Meg McDonald, Low Carbon Australia CEO. "Upgrading with ...

Cruelty Free Super celebrates second birthday

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... company's portfolio does look to invest in companies involved in environmental protection, clean energy, recycling, water and waste management, education and healthcare. "The portfolio is weighted towards stocks in the financial services, telecoms, and ...

Bendigo Wealth to provide support to Cool Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... sustainable outcomes. Cool Australia uses science, maths and English resources to educate primary and secondary students about waste, water, biodiversity, energy use and climate change. The five year financial support is targeted at putting Cool Australia's ...

UNPRI signatories name corporate ESG engagement issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... biodiversity and ecosystem services, labour standards of direct employees, public contributions and lobbying activities, waste and pollution, health and safety and vote confirmation. See Also: Q&A with James Gifford, executive director of the UNPRI

Low Carbon Australia and Quantum Power offer biogas services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... biogas-based renewable energy company, to assist farming, abattoir and food processing industries to create energy from waste. The alliance between Low Carbon Australia and Quantum Power will bundle Low Carbon Australia's financing abilities with Quantum ...

Equinix Sydney facility receives LEED certification

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... water for sewage conveyance through the capture and reuse of rainwater, the fact that 78% of on-site generated construction waste wasdiverted from landfill, the re-use of up to 98% of the building's existing structural elements (walls, floors, and roofs) ...

City of Melbourne EUAs extended to include property trusts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... Melbourne, opening up 42% of the city's lettable commercial property space environmental upgrade agreements (EUAs) for energy and waste efficiency upgrades. Scott Bocskay "It was a minor wording alteration that needed to be made, given some of the players ...

Accountancy profession a driver of corporate sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... impacts in the private sphere," Tingey-Holyoak said. "Accounting graduates can provide information on carbon and water and waste and all those issues, and the chapter also looks at who do they need to engage with, and how best to do that? " Because of ...

Farmers, land managers examine Carbon Farming Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... said. "At the moment, landfill methodologies are generating the most interest," she said. "If you already have a legacy waste landfill, it's potentially easier to make the business case and attract finance to get a project up and running. The other methodologies ...