Once again the solar energy industry has been kicked about the head like a political football. NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell’s retrospective unilateral reduction of the gross feed in tariff for rooftop PV systems

A serious problem has finally caught the media’s attention: that so-called sustainable buildings ain’t always what they’re supposed to be.

I have just had a very profoundly moving moment. And it was on the internet… who would have thought? It has been an argumentative time in Australia this lat year or so.

Seargent Schulz has a lot to answer for… I just returned from a long weekend in and around the Macquarie Marshes, in northern NSW. These are unique in the world, in that the

A solar powered boat office – is this a world first? I have been a solar power enthusiast since 1990, when I bought my first 160 watts of Solarex panels to power

Europe and UK’s expert on carbon taxing and trading is “astounded” by Australia. Sadly, neither Uluru nor the Great Barrier Reef are responsible for this. Nope – it’s all our own work. Oh

Some websites are advertising “solar air conditioning” with little or no running costs, along with “magnetic generators” that somehow create energy for nothing. If something seems too good to be true, it probably

Some things ARE changing, for the better and worse. Here are three… 1. Population Growth and Urban Planning – good move: A national discussion paper on urban planning policy has been launched which

I cannot design a building without knowing how many people are going to occupy it. Yet this is exactly how we are designing the future Australia – just bumbling along with no plan

Envirotecture – and our building designer Tracy Graham in particular – picked up a BDA NSW Design Award last Friday evening, for a growing fleet of public facilities across Fairfield City Council’s jurisdiction.

Envirotecture's Andy Marlow is presenting once again at the Australian Passivhaus Conference.