Geelong Sustainability

"So what can you do to help manage your energy bills? Graeme Ambrose, sustainability consultant with Ecodecisions - a company that aims to help consumers becoming more energy efficient - has an especially controversial suggestion. "

One Planet Living is a vision for a world where it is easy, attractive and affordable for people to lead happy and healthy lives within a fair share of the earth's resources. Developed by BioRegional and WWF, it is based on ten principles of sustainability, which aim to reduce people's carbon footprints and help them to live happy and healthy lives. BioRegional's program is developing exemplary projects around the globe.

SKM Recycling, established in 1999, provides recycling sorting services to councils across Victoria. As the recycling industry continues to expand, the company has evolved to become an industry leader in sorting recyclables collected from households and businesses. The wholly Australian owned company has sites in Coolaroo, Mornington and Laverton. SKM services 12 councils and Regional Waste Management Groups

"One of the world's most advanced solar power companies has shelved plans to develop electricity plants for the public market in Australia because of the Government's apparent hostility to renewable energy. Solar Reserve, based in Santa Monica, California, has pioneered a technology that combines mass-scale solar power generation with storage, allowing energy from the sun to be "time-shifted" and used 24 hours a day."

"With Australian electricity prices amongst the highest in the world, more and more households are going solar. The big power companies say the Renewable Energy Target is undermining their businesses and they want it wound back. The federal government agrees, so who is to blame for the high price of power? Jess Hill investigates."

"The science behind what makes our planet's temperature rise is pretty straightforward. Pollutants like soot and greenhouse gases like methane and carbon dioxide trap heat within the earth's atmosphere, the global average surface temperature goes up, ice caps melt, sea levels rise and extreme weather events become even more extreme. However, American college students are coming with with some of the coolest ways to battle climate change and clean up domestic energy production."

"With careful design, the same development projects that improve communities, save lives, and increase GDP can also fight climate change. A new study examines the multiple benefits for a series of policy scenarios addressing transportation and energy efficiency in buildings and industry in five countries and the European Union. It provides concrete data to help policymakers understand the broader potential of climate-smart development investments."

"Edyn is a smart garden system that monitors and tracks environmental conditions, helping you help your plants thrive."

"The Future Economy Group, a new coalition of businesses and environmental leaders, has joined forces to research and advocate the importance of innovation and natural capital to Victoria's economy. We sponsored detailed research that shows that nature and economy are inextricably linked and quantifies the impact on the Victorian economy and jobs if our environment continues to decline. It shows that we can grow the economy and jobs by modernising Victoria's economy into one that is built on innovation and values nature. Based on this research, the Group then developed the Future Economy Plan, a roadmap to modernise Victoria's economy. It provides a series of powerful ideas for change, and urges the government of Victoria to take action now to convert the state economy from 'business-as-usual' to one that can meet the challenges of the 21st-century."

"A CSIRO test plant in Australia has broken a world record and proved solar power could efficiently replace fossil fuels."

"Welcome to the 63rd edition of the BP Statistical Review of World Energy Since 1952, the review's mission has always been to provide objective, global data on energy markets to inform discussion, debate and decision-making. This first snap-shot of the global energy picture in 2013 - together with the historical data that puts today's information into context - can help us to understand how the world around us is changing."

This course covers "Renewable energy - passive and active Greywater and rainwater catchment Soil regeneration and land restoration Food forests, trees, and garden design Urban apartment permaculture and more!"

Planet Nutshell make cartoon videos around a range of subjects in this case Climate Change. The videos target primary aged students.

"Our ability to harness ever-expanding amounts of data is completely transforming our understanding of environmental problems and solutions. Our Climate Insights blog series leverages data from CAIT 2.0, WRI's climate data explorer, to shed light on the many dimensions of climate change that shape society, policy, and global development."

"Antarctica is shedding 160 billion tonnes a year of ice into the ocean, twice the amount of a few years ago, according to new satellite observations. The ice loss is adding to the rising sea levels driven by climate change and even east Antarctica is now losing ice. The new revelations follows the announcement last week that the collapse of the western Antarctica ice sheet has already begun and is unstoppable, although it may take many centuries to complete."

""If the average temperature of a large body of water increases, that's an enormous amount of heat content," says Andrew Rosenberg, a convening lead author of the National Climate Assessment's Oceans chapter. Ocean waters are becoming warmer and more acidic, broadly affecting ocean circulation, chemistry, ecosystems, and marine life. Rising sea surface temperatures have been linked with increasing levels and ranges of diseases in people and marine life. In this video, Rosenberg discusses how human-caused climate change is transforming the oceans that make up 70 percent of the Earth's surface."

"Bringing together technologists and environmental professionals to collaboratively build awesome tools to understand, protect, and revive the natural world."

"A large section of the mighty West Antarctica ice sheet has begun falling apart and its continued melting now appears to be unstoppable, two groups of scientists reported on Monday. If the findings hold up, they suggest that the melting could destabilize neighboring parts of the ice sheet and a rise in sea level of 10 feet or more may be unavoidable in coming centuries."

The Boomerang Alliance, made up of 28 of Australia`s leading community and environment groups, is campaigning for a 10 cent refund on bottles and cans to reduce the litter and double recycling rates across Australia; tyre recycling and an end to illegal tyre dumps; and more e-waste/battery recycling. This infographic looks at some of the issues related to container deposit schemes.