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UTS researchers are hopeful that a study showing differences in the surface temperatures of corals will assist with the management of coral reefs around the world as sea temperatures rise.
Australia’s first plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) was recently unveiled in Melbourne by the University of Technology, Sydney and green development company Szencorp.
Ever found yourself wondering when the old Carlton United Brewery on Broadway was going to get that much-needed facelift? The brewery has stood dormant and dry since 2005, but now, nips and tucks are underway and the iconic site is being transformed. Its old, hops-stained walls are coming down and making way for a clean, green urban precinct.
Sustainable tourism promoter Stephen Wearing chose the path less travelled and ended up on the Kokoda Track.
Grants totaling more than $1.5 million have been received by UTS for two major campus environmental sustainability projects that will save over 150,000 litres of water per day.
Transport experts from the University of Technology, Sydney have thrown their weight behind a community push to extend Sydney's light rail services in the inner west of the city.
Leading environmental scientist and 2007 Australian of the Year, Professor Tim Flannery, says the challenges of climate change mean universities are preparing students for a very different world, and one that is coming sooner than we thought.
Marine scientists across NSW and interstate have joined forces to petition the Iemma Government to properly implement a state-wide system of marine parks and urgent ‘no-take zones’.
NSW university students can win $600 by taking part in a UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures survey to understand student attitudes to climate change.
The future of the petrol engine and Sydney's troubled transport infrastructure were the focus of a recent UTSpeaks public lecture presented by three of UTS's leading sustainability researchers.
Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty recently presented a vision of innovation and opportunity to Australian business leaders at a UTS sponsored lunch held by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia.
The Rudd Government should not use the worsening global economy as an excuse to reduce a focus on social and environmental priorities according to a national expert on sustainability, Professor Stuart White from UTS.
Last week saw Vice-Chancellor Professor Ross Milbourne launch a major new campus-wide initiative to decrease UTS's environmental footprint and become a leading example to other universities and enterprises.
To talk with Holly Creenaune, bubbly and full of life as she is, it’s difficult to imagine her taking a hard line against anyone. But don’t be fooled. A self-professed humanitarian activist, Creenaune is not the type to lie down and let things slide. "Sometimes people do need to stand up to protect our community, to protect workers, to protect tracts of forest and certainly to protect our future," she says, talking of her passion for environmental and community issues.
Commercial fishing results in direct selection against bold, fast-growing fish, potentially affecting the ability of harvested populations to recover, according to a new study by fish scientists in Australia and Canada.
One of Australia's leading researchers in natural resource management, Professor Derek Eamus of UTS, has been awarded one of two Land & Water Australia Senior Research Fellowships for 2008.
Leading researchers at the Institute for Sustainable Futures and the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Technology Sydney are being funded by Szencorp to create Australia’s first plug-in hybrid electric vehicle.
UTS is partnering with the national education and training body of the energy industry, the Australian Power Institute (API), to address a looming skills gap in an industry preparing for significant change.
Incisive research from some of the University of Technology, Sydney’s most distinguished academics on the direction of business management and operation in an environmentally stressed future has been published.
Former Chief Scientist of Australia, Professor Robin Batterham, says the world will need every option available to turn the tide on climate change.
Australian law needs to recognise greenhouse gas emissions as a matter of environmental significance, writes Karen Bubna-Litic.
The UTS sustainability taskforce has been working behind the scenes to roll out a sustainability revolution.
The Green Lease Guide for Commercial Office Tenants – researched and written by the UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures on behalf of Investa Property Group has won a major award.
UTS Business Faculty leaders in sustainable business education, Associate Professor Suzanne Benn and Distinguished Professor Dexter Dunphy AM, have been awarded for the best article in the Australasian Journal of Environmental Management.
Excellence in research, and an ability to talk about it, has landed UTS marine scientist Dr Brendan Kelaher a 2007 Young Tall Poppy Award.
The Australian Institute of Energy (AIE) recently recognised the value of Professor Geoff Smith’s work in solar driven lighting and solar reflective coatings with an AIE Excellence in Energy Award for 2007.
With the right design and systems in place, we should be able to reduce the environmental impact of products tenfold, writes Douglas Tomkin.
We asked readers what they are doing to reduce their carbon footprint.
Chris Davis is on a mission. And it’s one that could save the world. Davis has been employed to promote UTS’s skills in research relating to sustainability.
Addressing climate change needs a multi-pronged approach and it needs to happen now, writes Ian McGregor.
Next time you are walking through a nursery or a florist and a beautiful climbing plant catches your eye think carefully before you buy it. You could be taking a killer home.
A Sydney urban water expert told guests at a public meeting last night that Sydney’s proposed desalination plant is likely to be a ‘costly mistake’.
Australia has a long and inglorious history of introduced species that wreak havoc on the country – think rabbits, cane toads and prickly pear – and the story doesn't end there.
One of the key challenges for UTS - and my team in particular - is ensuring the efficient and effective use of university resources so that we might achieve our key strategic priorities.
UTS Faculty of Business has celebrated Distinguished Professor Dexter Dunphy's awarding of an AM
A UTS sustainability expert has warned that a revolution in sanitation is needed world-wide to preserve dwindling water supplies and recover increasingly rare nutrients needed to grow crops.
Decision making surrounding water planning for South East Queensland (SEQ) has been criticised as lacking transparency and that it is marred by incomplete or erroneous assessments of costs and impacts associated with various options.
The Queensland Government’s decision to construct Traveston dam will place a heavy financial burden on Brisbane residents, according to Joanne Chong, economist from the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).
The effects of climate change won't kill young fish outright, but they'll be hungrier and more likely to get eaten by predators according to an important new study.
There is little incentive for Sydney-siders
to save water yet many opportunities, writes Gordon Menzies.
A leader in fostering research that successfully breaks down barriers between academic disciplines, Associate Professor Cynthia Mitchell from UTS's Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF), is being honoured this month by a Swedish university.
Office buildings can be ‘green’ and now they can be ‘sustainable’. The world-first Green Lease Guide supports building tenants to make choices that benefit them and the environment.
Business schools face a problem. When it comes to dealing with sustainability and corporate responsibility, they are seen as lagging behind community attitudes and the expectations of many business leaders.
We will directly challenge whoever is in government to sign on to the principles that will return Sydney to a public transport city.
The drought, water restrictions and urban water infrastructure have dominated the agendas of state governments across Australia in recent years. When combined with a state election it represents a potent mix that makes the process of robust decision-making, which is hard enough at the best of times, even more difficult.
The earth’s available reserves of phosphate, which is the primary ingredient in fertilizers, could be exhausted within the next 50 to 130 years. So why hasn’t news of this looming threat appeared on media and other radar screens?
UTS Engineering PhD graduate Dr Hokyong Shon, together with Professor Vigi Vigneswaran and Professor Jong Ho Kim were awarded the Water Environment Merit Award (WEMA) at the Heads of Water Gala Dinner on 11 August 2006.
"It’s happening, although governments seem to be in denial. I’m not sure why this is when scientists show the effects of climate change so powerfully. As individuals we have to do what we can but a powerful global movement will let governments know the planet isn’t theirs for destroying."
The survival of Aboriginal people for thousands of years on one of the driest continents on earth has intrigued many people for years. The first European settlers knew nothing of Indigenous peoples’ extensive knowledge of groundwater supplies. Nor did they realise that this knowledge sustained Aboriginal nations – most of them living in arid and desert terrain – across the length and breadth of the continent.
There are huge savings over the life of a building.
Nuclear power is not the way to achieve the significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that will be required to pass on a stable climate to future generations – it's not effective, it's not cheap and it's not necessary.
A new book written by UTS academics challenges corporations to "touch the earth lightly", transform the economic rationalist culture and contribute to the creation of a sustainable world.
To plan for future sustainable water resources, Dr Cynthia Mitchell and her team at the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) have developed a model that challenges traditional approaches and looks ‘back to the future’.
UTS researchers have scored a sellout success following unprecedented consumer demand throughout Australia for their information package on sustainable housing.
Visitors to national parks in north-eastern New South Wales are generally well educated with higher status occupations compared to the general population, according to a report written by School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism’ academics.
Australia’s salinity bill, which currently stands at $500 million annually in lost agricultural productivity, is climbing to $1billion, according to UTS groundwater researchers.
Final-year Master of Project Management student Mark Wylie is making Australian history as project manager of Australia’s first environmentally friendly and fully sustainable fire station, the subject of his Master’s thesis.
The Australian Technology Park (ATP) is preparing to implement a comprehensive new waste management plan — including worm farms — to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill by up to 80 per cent.
Environmental Science students will assess the delicate ecology of Manly Dam and the surrounding catchment area, when an innovative course involving the local community runs again this year.
China is facing major sustainable development challenges according to the Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures, Professor Mark Diesendorf. Professor Diesendorf recently returned from his third research visit to China and his first to the city of Shanghai.
UTS was a key partner last week, along with the City of Sydney and UNSW, in hosting the Sydney leg of a two-week youth forum bringing Australian and Indian university students together for ideas sharing on the theme of sustainability.
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