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How you prepare your coffee at home (and wash up the mugs) can have a big impact on its carbon footprint. So fill that kettle carefully, and only brew what you know you’ll drink.
As major supermarkets ‘ban the bag’, the spotlight is firmly on sustainability. Retailers are racing to promote their green credentials to shoppers.
Supply-chain experts see reliable data, STEM education and smarter regulation as essential for Australia to succeed in an increasingly automated world under pressure to be environmentally sustainable.
Waste byproducts from rice and glass combined with fungus can create a construction material with the potential to save lives and the planet.
Australia’s business-as-usual plan will not be enough to achieve our 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
Once a niche market, sustainable finance is now expanding and accelerating, yet too few universities have committed their finance programmes to these issues. The time has come for change.
Health care produces 7% of Australia’s carbon emissions. And hospitals produce about half of this. Not to mention all the single-use items thrown away every day.
Residents of a small Victorian town realised that delicious water can be a curse as well as a blessing, when they lost a legal battle to stop a local farmer shipping groundwater to a nearby bottling plant.
The sustainability of the news media is a precondition for good journalism in the public interest. Thus, economic questions should form part of discussions of press freedom.
Climate change plans can bring broader benefits to cities, while helping avert disaster.
Politicians and economists call for emissions cuts while also embracing free trade – they can’t have it both ways.
In an increasingly urban world, trees can make a major difference. One study found that, for every dollar invested in planting, megacities saw a $2.50 return on their investment.
There’s plenty of evidence that modern swill-feeding would be safe, sustainable, and popular.
Electric cars might be a quick fix to clean up transport, but the problems with cars go beyond just emissions.
Multiple reports have convincingly demonstrated that agroecology is the most promising pathway to sustainable food systems on all continents. But governments aren’t doing enough to support it.
Truly green plastic requires more than sustainable raw materials.
Farmer-led development work can improve people’s lives, provide access to food and water - and re-connect them to nature.
Food chains are often so complex that it’s too hard to make the right choices.
Buildings are central to creating more sustainable cities, and green ratings are often used to assess how well a building measures up against this goal. But the current system has serious flaws.
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Academic Director, School for International Training, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
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Professor of Tourism, Griffith University
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Associate Professor in Construction and Environmental Performance, The University of Melbourne
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Chair, Monash Sustainable Development Institute & ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University
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Professor of Construction and Environmental Assessment, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Accounting, Durham University
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Sustainable Development Solutions Network Manager, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Emeritus Professor of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Canberra
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Honorary Fellow in the School of Biosciences, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Professor of Ecological Economics, UCL
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Canada Research Chair in Business Sustainability, Western University
