Zero Carbon Australia High Speed Rail report: Brisbane Launch
Guest speakers for the event include Larissa Waters, Senator for Queensland, and Stephen Bygrave, CEO of Beyond Zero Emissions.
Zero Waste SA In Review
How to run great meetings
A great meeting can save time, money and sanity. Discuss why we run meetings, what you can do to get the most our of your time, and why it's important to understand your organisation's culture when it comes to getting people together.
Community Impacts of Coal Seam Gas
The development of coal seam gas (CSG) has proceeded very rapidly over the last few years, with four companies active in the Western Downs area of South West Queensland.
The Cumulative Socioeconomic Impacts research project, based in the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining in UQ’S Sustainable Minerals Institute, is examining the cumulative impacts – positive and negative - of the four CSG companies on communities, with Miles the pilot town.
Renewable Energy Storage and Economic issues
Pumped hydro, Tim Forcey, Melbourne Energy Institute
Pumped hydroelectricity energy storage (PHES) is by far the most significant form of large-scale energy storage in use around the world today with approximately 130 GW of generation capacity installed. PHES facility construction is resurgent globally as evolving electricity supply systems place greater value on stored energy. Australia has approximately 1.5 GW of PHES capacities; however, no large-scale facilities have been installed in the last 30 years
Climate Adaptation
How Australia Can Thrive in a Low Carbon World - Andy Jones, ClimateWorks Australia
Smart Electricity Grid Technologies
Alan Pears AM
Adjunct Professor at RMIT University. Alan has contributed to Environment and Planning’s teaching program since 2001. He has worked in the sustainable energy and environment fields since the late 1970s for community groups, government and the private sector. He is recognised as an expert in renewable energy and energy efficiency and writes widely in these fields.
Communicating Sustainability - Effective messaging techniques
Communicating sustainability issues can be difficult, especially to people not broadly receptive to this subject. Climate related matters can be especially problematic, due to the politicisation and misconceptions that have developed (and even been nurtured) in recent years.
Australian Water Accounting Standards
THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Water accounting is a systematic process of identifying, recognising, quantifying, reporting, and assuring:
- information about water
- the rights and other claims to that water, and
- the obligations against that water.
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