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Empowering and inspiring Australians to accelerate the uptake of sustainable living is The Sustainable Living Festival, which runs from Saturday 11th – Sunday 26th February, 2012.

Electricity prices will surge this year and consumers must educate themselves on energy efficiency urgently, if they are to find any relief. Already electricity prices have risen by an average of 10% in Victoria on New Years Day. With another jump in price of around 10% expected to follow with the implementation of the carbon tax on July 1st, [...]

A report released last week at the United Nations climate change talks in South Africa shows that, with over a million Australians now living in solar powered homes, Australia is on target to generate one-fifth of its energy from renewable sources by 2020. The Clean Energy Council’s latest annual report shows that the number of Australian rooftop [...]

Leading the way for large corporations to adopt renewable energy sources is Facebook, with their new facility to be fitted with solar power. The social media company’s new office in Menlo Park California, is to have a solar system installed on the rooftop of the fitness centre. Expected to generate 60 kilowatts of power, the installed solar [...]

Even in its early days renewable energy has been a great investment. The Clean Energy Council (CEC) has reported that despite the cost of renewable energy being over stated, the Energy Users Association of Australia’s (EUAA) new report shows the cost has been modest. Chief Executive of the CEC, Matthew Warren, said the cost of solar for example [...]

Adam Morton from The Age writes, “THE Coalition has dismissed the need to set out long-term plans to tackle climate change, saying Labor’s promise of deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 is unrealistic. The government has proposed a carbon trading scheme linked to a 5 per cent cut in emissions below 2000 levels [...]

The votes are in and it looks like Australia will be burdened with the world’s biggest and most invasive carbon tax. Yesterday Julia Gillard won “lower-house support for her carbon tax package, the most dramatic economic transformation since the dismantling of tariffs in the 1990s, despite rising industry concerns that the $23 a tonne starting price [...]

 It’s Sustainable House Day in Australia in just two more days… This is an initiative of the Australian Solar Energy Society (AuSES) started in 2001, designed to give the public the opportunity to visit a Sustainable House in their neighbourhood, get a real-life look at how they have been designed, built or fitted out with sustainability in mind and [...]

A new Transitional Feed-in Tariff (TFIT) will be introduced by the Victorian Coalition Government to replace the current Premium Feed-in Tariff (PFIT), available from January 1st, 2012. The Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commission (VCEC) is to conduct a review of the feed-in tariff as part of Coalition policy and this is to be reported in the second [...]

Developed by MIT researchers, new technology has enabled the print of solar cells directly onto inexpensive, easily available materials such as paper or cloth…