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Despite promises, it’s hard to deny that the UK’s standards on agriculture, air pollution, and climate change are under threat.
The University of Melbourne is the first institution in Australia to have its nitrogen footprint calculated – it’s 139 tonnes per year, mainly because of food production, energy use and transport.
A new report reveals Australia is lagging behind most wealthy nations in working towards the globally agreed goals. It’s performing particularly badly on climate and environmental indicators.
Overtourism is driving a backlash among residents of many European cities, and concerns are rising in Australia, too.
The residents of Freetown Christiania have lived by degrowth values for decades.
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.
Top contributors
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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 Ecological Economics, UCL
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Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research & Innovation, College of Design & Social Context, RMIT University
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Professor, Faculty of Business & Economics, University of Winnipeg
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Professor of Construction and Environmental Assessment, The University of Melbourne
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Canada Research Chair in Business Sustainability, Western University
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Sustainable Development Solutions Network Manager, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Professor of Accounting, Durham University
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Emeritus Professor of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Canberra
