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Researchers at The Australia National University (ANU) are working on several new technologies that could revolutionise the solar energy markets. Among their projects: a new type of solar-powered air-conditioning system and a spray-on solar panel that could reduce costs while boosting efficiency. The air-conditioning system being developed by engineering and
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Our friend Mark Brown wrote us a guide to Australia’s ten ‘greenest’ hotels. They look amazing… 1. Daintree Eco Lodge & Spa When it comes to eco-friendly travel, it doesn’t get much better than Daintree Eco Lodge & Spa, a boutique hotel located deep in the tropical rainforests
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Australia, the largest exporter of coal in the world, has unveiled plans to sweep carbon underground. The Australian government has announced it will fund a $100m (that’s in Aussie dollars) a year carbon capture and storage (CCS) institute. It will help Australia to meet a G8 commitment to have
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Are there any sexier words in the English language than proof of concept? Greenbang would wager that “here’s that free pint of hot chocolate you wanted, and I’ve stuck a £50 note on top just because I like your face,” would come close. Alas, Greenbang hears the former
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Greenbang hasn’t seen the Australian press so excited about a story since Fosters proposed giving away an inflatable Kylie with every slab of tinnies*:Toyota and Aussie PM Kevin Rudd or (K-Rudd if you’re street) are bringing the hybrid Camry Down Under. The PM and his car buddies
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Can you ever be too thin or too rich? Apparently you can, if you were hoping to get your hands on a cut-price solar panel after the Aussie government decided to means test a rebate for those buying panels for their homes. No word on if the slender will be
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The Aussies put out their latest federal budget last week and, in between ringfencing the necessary cash to ensure the canonisation of pop pixie and national treasure ™ Kylie Minogue and an adequate supply of rope for the tying down of the country’s kangaroos, sport, there’s been an Uluru-sized
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When Greenbang first heard that Victorians have opened up more land for geothermal exploration, she wondered who’d been able to time travel back to the 19th century and whether they might want to pass on the message to the Victorians that those flat-fronted trousers and handlebar moustaches are going
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Peter Garrett – former Midnight Oil frontman, celebrity baldie and now Aussie environment minister – has failed to persuade his counterparts across the Aussie states’ to ditch plastic bags and countenance an all-out ban of the disposable plastic irritants. Cue much tuttting and rolling of eyes. Go on – try it yourself. Feels
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People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, so the saying goes. Greenbang always wondered what type of person lives in a greenhouse to start with and why they would keep stones lying around indoors let alone feel obliged to lob them about, but that’s another matter. But now
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It looks like there’s something rotten in the state of Queensland. Last month, Greenbang brought you news that Australia’s sunshine state had started a scheme that promised people putting up solar panels would earn 44 cents for every kilowatt they create. Only now things aren’t looking so
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Dear god people, it’s worse than we thought – it looks like not only is global warming going to plunge us into food riots and mass extinctions and all manner of unpleasantness but it looks we’ll have to survive this grim future in a state of sobriety. Yes, it’