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Next month, the world’s largest meal-kit company is opening a new 25,500sqm manufacturing and distribution complex near Melbourne. Reportedly the largest such facility in Australia, the new ‘Tuckerbox’ will exemplify sustainability.
RMIT researchers say siting solar PV arrays atop large open-air buildings such as airports, malls and factories could provide far more power than residential rooftop solar, enabling us to reach net zero emissions faster.
The world’s most forbidding deserts could be the best places on Earth for harvesting solar power – the most abundant and clean source of energy we have.
In the lead-up to its inaugural Food Systems Summit, scheduled for September 2021, the United Nations is gathering input from a broad array of stakeholders to flesh out the Summit agenda. The Summit focus is on developing more resilient, sustainable and equitable global food systems.
Successful New England-based renewables entrepreneur David Mailler, co-Executive Director of community-focused Meralli Solar, has won the University of New England’s Rising Star Award for 2020.
An Australia-based ‘smart building materials’ firm has teamed with Murdoch University to construct a first-of-its-kind experimental ‘clear-solar-glass’ greenhouse on Murdoch’s Perth, WA campus.
Following last month’s announcement rollout of hydrogen-storage-backed solar facilities across NSW, Providence Asset Group is set to erect a string of similar solar farms across southern Australia.
The Faculty of Engineering’s Professor Joe Dong has been shortlisted for the prestigious Global Energy Prize for his work on creating a stable, sustainable power supply for Australia – and potentially, the world.
With hydrogen-as-renewables trials already underway across Australia, the federal government and Germany have agreed to explore the viability of a hydrogen supply industry.
The National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) believes the road to recovery post-pandemic ‘begins in the bush’ and outlines a multi-pronged plan of action in its Get Australia Growing document, launched on 14 July 2020.