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While solar panels adorn hundreds of thousands of rooftops throughout Australia, we have not yet seen the logical next step: buildings with solar photovoltaic cells as an integral part of their structure.
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In Australia, renewable energy is growing at a per capita rate ten times faster than the world average. Australia is demonstrating to the world how rapidly an industrialised country with a fossil-fuel-dominated electricity system can transition towards low-carbon, renewable power generation.
The need to use building space more efficiently means adaptive and responsive domestic micro-environments will replace the old concept of static rooms within a private apartment.
Reducing emissions from deforestation and farming is an urgent global priority if we want to control climate change. However, like many climate change problems, the solution is complicated.
Five Australian cities are in the top 25 with “severely unaffordable” housing in a 2019 Demographia survey of 91 major metropolitan markets. Sydney was ranked the third least affordable of the 91.
The Spanish city of Barcelona has pioneered an innovative approach to managing traffic, freeing up public space and promoting walking and cycling. The “superblocks” model produces considerable health and economic benefits and could be applied in Australian cities too.
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, which has just opened at the National Gallery of Victoria, brings together over 100 contemporary photographers from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe and Australia with over 200 photographs.
A recent report by the Greater Sydney Commission identifies tree canopy as the top response for reducing city temperatures and delivering amenity. However, the public conversation about urban heat often misses the complex relationship between trees, people and the built environment.
The value of the NRAS subsidy was set much higher than it needed to be. Other policies, such as building social housing and boosting Commonwealth Rent Assistance, would be better targeted and waste less money along the way.
Vested interests – both the big end of town and traditionalists seeking to preserve Australians’ suburban way of life – have come together in a rare alliance to argue against policies to deliver more diverse housing.
Sydney’s Inner West Council has a new policy that reportedly means “residents will no longer need to seek council approval to prune or remove trees within three metres of an existing home or structure”.
Despite the overwhelming evidence that electric vehicle technology can deliver significant economic, environmental and health benefits, misinformation continues to muddy the public debate in Australia.
