Browsing: Good practice, how to

• Dust settles and OneSteel Whyalla gets sustainability licence
  
• Greens and two independents line up to back climate action
  
• CO2 Australia writes-off $5.5m in WA plantings in wake of CPRS collapse
  
• Sartor's air pollution package misses the point: TEC

Murray Goulburn Co-Op can cut its 2020 non-farm greenhouse gas emissions by 'at least' 25% using a three-part strategy, the company's sustainability manager Patten Bridge said today.

• EPA Victoria releases resource efficiency case studies (with video)
  
• 'Next government must compensate farmers on carbon and biodiversity': NFF
  
• Gillard a climate failure if there's no carbon price – Bob Brown

• Ken Henry – tread carefully when 'valuing' the environment
  
• Office block cuts energy use 41% in three years
  
• WA EPA recommends approval for BHP Billiton Macedon gas project
  
• New energy efficiency requirements for gas water heaters

• NT Minister lobbies for national container deposit scheme
  
• NSW roads agency approves first project using crushed waste glass
  
• IEA sounds warning: emissions must peak by 2020
  
• U.S. provides $1.85 billion for two solar projects

• Grounded – Parsons Brinckerhoff launches fly-free week
  
• Tuvalu blasts Copenhagen Accord in UN submission
  
• National park asbestos dumper fined $10,000

Cement industry greenhouse gas emissions have risen only slightly despite a major production increase, says a sustainability report issued on behalf of three major cement companies, with Energy Minister Martin Ferguson welcoming the industry's shift from 'technology-taker' to innovation 'leader'.

Barwon Water is seeking EPA Victoria works approval for a $90 million water recycling plant, co-funded by the Federal and State governments, which will treat for re-use trade waste from Shell's Corio refinery and sewage from Geelong's northern suburbs, reducing the city's use of drinking water by 5%.

• Chief Scientist urges climate action as poll finds uncertainty over science
  
• EPA Victoria updates best practice landfill guidelines
  
• SA EPA seeks site contamination auditors

• 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