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• Council to pay $131,000 penalty for EPBC Act breach
  
• Court fines quarry for breaching production limits
  
• New guide details how to use crushed glass in construction work
  
• Albanese issues urban policy paper

• New green rating tool out for factories
  
• NGER changes out for comment
  
• Jon Dee releases sustainability and small business book
  
• New report issued on Indigenous Australians and climate change

Measures in an 18-point Green Jobs plan unveiled today by the Victorian Government include a $60 million spend on eight priority construction projects and streamlined approval procedures for renewable energy projects.

The City of Melbourne and the Victorian Government today unveiled an ambitious plan to retrofit 1200 commercial buildings over a decade.

Owners of commercial office buildings will be required from the second half of 2010 to provide energy efficiency ratings when they sell and lease office space, Environment Minister Peter Garrett announced today.

• Ministers seek input on energy use benchmarking
  
• EPHC releases wind farm development guidelines
  
• Sydney development signs to Clinton Climate Initiative

If you want big wins from sustainability initiatives then trial projects, train staff - and don't just hire one sustainability manager and 'wish them luck', Harvard University's Green Campus director Leith Sharp told a Sydney seminar.

• ACF, Climate Institute crunch the numbers on Coalition proposals
  
• Generators seek more details from Coalition
  
• Bond University building wins sustainability award
  
• Tasmania to introduce five star energy efficiency standard