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Sustainable City Masdar
By admin on April 22, 2011

The sustainable city of Masdar, designed to house 50,000 people and covering an area of 7 sq. km. on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, will be the world’s first carbon neutral city. Whilst we in Australia are still debating how to tackle Climate Change and implement policies to shift from carbon-guzzling fuels to alternative energy, in a most unlikely place in the world, the United Arab Emirates is well on its way to making this shift. Based on policy decisions made years ago, the UAE already ha…

How Greenies Became Watermelons…
By John DeJose on November 8, 2010

Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth will play host to a thought-provoking series of free public lectures with Naomi Oreskes, Professor of History & Science Studies, University of California, San Diego, and co-author of the new book Merchants of Doubt: How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming. In these lectures, Naomi discusses her latest book (co-authored with Erik M. Conway), as she rolls back the rug on a dark corner of the American sc…

Climate Change – A Change in Architectural Education
By admin on March 22, 2010

22 March 2010 Sasha Ivanovich, FRAIA Architect [cf]IvanovichVideo[/cf] solar-e.com expert Sasha Ivanovich is a multi award winning architect in Western Australia and Sydney. In his video blog, Sasha discusses the importance of integrating sustainability into architectural education. Climate change and the proposition that human activity is instrumental in climate change brings to the fore the whole discourse on our responsibility for the future we are creating for our children and all li…

Domestic Rooftop Solar Electricity- Is it Such a Good Idea?
By John Barker on February 12, 2010

John ED Barker, PhD Adjunct Professor, School of Sustainability Murdoch University jedbarker@solar-e.com Part 1- Elsewhere Several years ago, I visited the island of Amantani in Lake Titcaca, Peru. My partner, Diane and I had just walked the exhilarating Inca Trail with a small tour group and a “family stay” on Amantani was the next goal in our five-week tour across South America. Amantani is a two-hour boat trip from the Peruvian lake port of Puno. It is concisely described in Wikipedia:…