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The SBRC is the first building in Australia to achieve International Living Building Challenge compliance.

The Living Buildings Challenge: Driving Sustainable Cities

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Some of the most important emerging challenges of the twenty-first century stem from the evolution of our cities and buildings. It is now widely acknowledged the we must change the way we design buildings in order to tackle changing environmental conditions (Richard Hyde, 2018). The living buildings challenge is a thorough and holistic green building […]

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Innovation, Society, Sustainability
African cities like Nairobi face many challenges in their quest to create ideas for a sustainable city.

Green Future: African Ideas for a sustainable City

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Ideas for a sustainable city are top of mind for many countries when it comes to planning for the future. Sustainable cities enhance the economic, socio-cultural, environmental, technological, institutional, and governance structures using strategic guidelines and components (Cepeliauskaite and Stasiskiene 2020). They are resilient to social, economic, and natural shocks and built to be environmentally

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Government, Innovation, Society, Strategy, Sustainability
Remote sensing of the environment is critical to urban planning.

Using Remote Sensing of the Environment For Urban Sustainability

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Modern cities are dynamic and complex settlements that manage the many different needs of the people that inhabit them (Webb et al., 2018). Accordingly, the methods we use to evaluate the sustainability of cities should reflect this dynamism and complexity. Thankfully, remote sensing of the environment offers an new way of assessing and monitoring cities

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Innovation, Sustainability, Technology
What is the future of sustainability in infrastructure. New technologies are helping to electrify more of the power grid.

Sustainability in Infrastructure: Beyond Electric Vehicles

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With the widespread uptake of electric vehicles (EV’s), what’s next for sustainability in transport infrastructure? We look at the adoption of new, large-scale technologies that are transforming cities and movement. The Electrification of Transport Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) have emerged as the replacement for internal combustion engines (ICE). However, reducing emissions on a scale necessary

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Energy, Innovation, Sustainability, Technology

5 Ways the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Makes Cities Sustainable

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Humans have become an urban species. Since 1950, the number of people in towns and cities has increased fivefold. Currently, over 3.5 billion people live in urban areas, or cities. As this number increases, so too does the need for urban planning to limit the damage to our environment. The Global Enivronmental Facility (GEF) has

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Environment, Innovation, Sustainability
Indigenous Fire Management

Caring for Country: Indigenous Custodians in Australia

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What is ‘Caring for Country’? In Australia, indigenous custodians have managed the land for at least 65 000 years. First Nations people are the oldest living culture in our world. Long before colonisation, they practiced Indigenous Land Management (ILM). Indigenous custodians developed and honed various land management practices known as caring for country. The result

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Environment, Innovation, Society, Sustainability
Microplastics in the sea are accumulating at an alarming rate.

Microplastics In The Sea: Is There A Way Out?

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Microplastics in the sea have become one of the biggest threats to our planet. Millions of tons of plastic waste continue to make their way to our oceans every year. It takes years for plastic to degrade in the environment. However, when it degrades it breaks down into tiny pieces and remains in the ecosystem indefinitely. Unfortunately,

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Environment, Innovation, Science, Technology
artificial intelligence for sustainability is a new and exciting field

Can we use Artificial Intelligence for Sustainability?

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“We’re at the beginning of a golden age of AI. Recent advancements have already led to invention that previously lived in the realm of science fiction – and we’ve only scratched the surface of what’s possible.” – Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, at his public conference on Artificial Intelligence (2022). During the last few years, Machine

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Business, Environment, Innovation, Strategy, Technology
Turtle in coral reef

3 Innovations that Protect Marine Life

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The Earth’s oceans are currently under attack from dangerous human activities like overfishing and oil spillages, as well as the effects of marine debris pollution and climate change. (Gall & Thompson, 2015; Sigler, 2014). Marine life, in particular sea turtles, cetaceans, reef inhabitant fish species, and marine birds, are at severe risk. This article describes

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Environment, Innovation, Science, Sustainability, Technology
Are pills helping us in solving world hunger? Or are they simply a supplement that cannot replace the role of food.

Solving World Hunger: Can we live on pills alone?

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The idea of solving world hunger with pills may sound like something out of a dystopian novel. However, in reality, it’s not all that that far-fetched. In recent years, there’s been an increasing trend towards taking pills to meet nutritional needs. While this may seem like a convenient way to get all the nutrients your

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Environment, Health, Innovation, Lifestyle, Society, Sustainability
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