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CEFC, CBA finance car dealership energy efficiency loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015  |  NEWS
A Sydney car dealership has taken out an AU$320,000 Energy Efficiency Loan to install 1,000 solar panels and more than 100,000 LED lights. Rooftop solar PV installation at Col Crawford Lifestyle Cars (photo courtesy CEFC) Col Crawford Lifestyle Cars ...

Melbourne, Sydney join Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015  |  NEWS
The City of Melbourne, the City of Sydney and 15 other international cities have launched the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance. Lord Mayor Robert Doyle (photo courtesy City of Melbourne) The alliance is a collaboration committed to reducing greenhouse ...

Mirvac integrates sustainability in "place-making" thinking

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... some external focus groups with an independent researcher with retail, commercial/office and residential sector groups in Sydney and Melbourne, and we did a review of megatrends that would affect our work here in Australia." The internal and external ...

NAB launches Impact Investment Grant Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... NAB has held information sessions on impact investment and the grants program in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney over the past month, and more than 400 people government, the not-for-profit sector and social enterprises attended the sessions ...

Future Super founders to launch Future Home Loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... financial backers of the fund as well. Future Super's trustee is the Trust Company, and the fund's assets are managed by Sydney boutique fund manager Grosvenor Pirie. Sheikh is the fund's managing director, while Verwey is executive director. The executive ...

Westpac commits to recruiting 400 Indigenous university interns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... legal and secretariat, human resources and communication, project development and financial markets, in Perth, Darwin and Sydney. Of those 45, three CareerTracker interns that have graduated from university have taken permanent roles within the banking ...

Universities "fail" on climate risk mitigation: AODP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... continents, including 37 in Australia. Only three universities in Australia - Charles Sturt University, the University of Sydney and the Australian National University - received D ratings, whilst the remaining 34 received X ratings, "indicating that ...

CBRE commits to increasing green space in Australia, NZ

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... New Zealand, said Amanda Steele, head of sustainability, CBRE Pacific. "We've expanded it already, rolled it out in the Sydney office," Steele said. "I work in the Sydney office, and I enjoy it. A lot of our clients have commented on it as well." Thus ...

Financial System Inquiry recommends on impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... to encourage further impact investing - was pushed off to a taxation white paper process. Last year, the University of Sydney published two reports - Impact Investment: Perspectives for Australian Superannuation Funds and Impact Investments: Perspectives ...

Westpac increases lending to cleantech, enviro services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... housing finance deal, providing AU$61 million in debt finance to SGCH for the construction of 275 new dwellings in the Sydney metropolitan region. SGCH is one of the largest community housing providers in Australia and houses over 8,000 people in 4,300 ...