Archive for October, 2009

Treehugger

Posted: 30 October, 2009 • Category: Biodiversity, Culture / Education, Design, Economy, Energy, Food, Governance, Initiative, Pollution / Chemicals, Transport, Waste, Water • Tags: • Comments(0)

TreeHugger is a modern aesthetic website dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream. It strives to be a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information.

Renewable Energy now the global mainstay for investment in electricity generation

Posted: 28 October, 2009 • Category: News • Tags: Renewable Energy • Comments(1)

In June, the Sydney Morning Herald ran a story highlighting recent figures from the United Nations revealing that renewable energy has overtaken fossil fuels in attracting investment for electrical power generation. In 2008, $US140 billion was invested in wind, solar, hydro and other renewable technologies compared with $US110 billion in gas and coal. More than a third of this investment in renewable energy was destined for Europe, however, the biggest growth in investment came from China, India and other developing ...

Transition Towns

Posted: 28 October, 2009 • Category: News • Tags: Biocity Studio, Ecosystems • Comments(2)

A shared presentation at Cundall’s Sydney office in August 2009 from Adrian McGregor of the Biocity Studio and Peter Driscoll & Sarah Hatcher from Transition Sydney, a branch of the global Transition Towns movement identified similarities between the two initiatives.  Primarily, that they are both tackling the challenges of peak oil and global warming.  The Biocity Studio has referenced the Transition Towns initiative in it’s university courses as a positive precedent for providing ...

Featured post

Posted: 27 October, 2009 • Category: Featured • Tags: • Comments(0)

The Biocity Studio is a research group dedicated to the development and free publication of open source urban sustainability resources. The Studio has created the URBAN GENOME PROJECT powered by a public wiki to capture the DNA of global cities and their parent nations. Wiki data can be entered by anyone and viewed via the data visualiser tool. Wiki information is being progressively entered by the growing biocity global community and other research partners. Visitors to the site can create custom ...