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202020 Vision makes business case for urban green

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... commenced in Adelaide, where Seed Consulting helped to facilitate part of the workshop. The tour starte around the same time as CSIRO Ecosystems Sciences published a report find that if green spaces in Australian cities were doubled, "heat wave related ...

CSIRO hire Larry Marshall as chief executive

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has hired Dr Larry Marshall as its new chief executive. Larry Marshall, incoming chief executive of CSIRO Marshall is currently the managing director of Southern Cross Venture ...

ClimateWorks Australia: Australia can decarbonise by 2050

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... electricity to replace petrol in cars, and gas in buildings and some industrial processes." The report uses modelling from the CSIRO and the Victoria University Centre for Policy Studies, using the same tools as previous analyses by Treasury and the ...

ARENA allocates $21.5m to solar R&D projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... energy in Australia." The 12 projects are from the Australian National University (5), the University of New South Wales (4), CSIRO (3) and the University of Technology Sydney (1), ARENA said. They were selected from a pool of 110 applications through ...

Challenges, opportunities in Australia's energy future

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... such as residential solar arrays was rapidly increasing, as were retail energy prices, noted Paul Graham, chief economist, CSIRO's Energy Flagship. CSIRO recently undertook analysis in The Future Grid Forum with the collaboration of a number of stakeholders ...

Australian Ethical survey identifies savings as top priority

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... to solving environmental challenges. Bun has previously worked for the Wilderness Society, Green Peace Australia, Choice, CSIRO and financial organisations including as a director of Allen Consulting Group. Cole has worked for the past 17 years as a ...

Government bodies not effectively speaking on sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... push-out dialogue. Government denies, but it's true. They're just not consulting very well apart with any organisation - CSIRO is the exception. " In the survey, respondents said that the number one area that government departments need to improve is ...

Australian infrastructure underprepared for climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... isolated at the organisational level. The report also notes that concern over climate change has fallen among exposed sectors. "CSIRO reports that companies reporting they have carried out vulnerability assessments slipped from 60 to 47% between 2008 ...

Carbon Farming Initiative grants for biochar research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... AU143,079 for a project to quantify the stable content of biochar from common feedstock types, leading to an offset methodology. CSIRO was granted AU$1m to build on the first National Biochar Initiative, to further develop or establish new biochar demonstration ...

Ken Henry to speak at ACCSR annual conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... Responsibility, Schulich School of Business, York University, and Simon McKeon, 2011 Australian of the Year, Chairman of CSIRO and Business for Millennium Development. Black noted that registration for the ACCSR conference closes on Monday, 13Februar ...