THE BIGGEST ESTATE – FIRE MADE IT BUT NOW BURNS IT UP Or, if you prefer… BUSHFIRE: A DEMON OF OUR OWN MAKING – APPLYING NEW RESEARCH TO LAND MANAGEMENT AND BUILDING DESIGN

The best option for consumers wanting to solar power their homes may be to totally thumb their noses at the grid, and go it alone, even in the city. The ongoing use of

Australians still have the biggest houses in the world, and NSW has the biggest houses in Australia.

…but it’s worth reading. We are often asked about the carbon tax and its expected affects on what we build, and how we build. While there are some unknowns at the fine level

Sick of the shock-jocks and deniers being the source of your ‘information’ on climate change? Want to get your information on climate change first hand? Try these links… GENERAL INTRO: http://www.skepticalscience.com/ – a

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.