Yandina-based Rockcote, manufacturers of eco-friendly paints and renders, have gained international recognition for their Gold Coast showroom …

A recent study has found Nambour to be relatively protected from the pain of escalating fuel prices …

THE Queensland Government was warned of the dire consequences of peak oil in a report by the now Minister for Sustainability Andrew McNamara published in October last year. So what has the Bligh Government done since his special taskforce predicted that tourism could be devastated by rising fuel prices as aviation and motoring costs increase? Already those predictions are starting to become reality, with airlines the first to suffer and Qantas and Jetstar announcing cuts to schedules

Ann White provides some facts on oil and consumption. “Peak oil represents the most serious and immediate challenge to our prosperity and security…”

As our houses grow bigger, so do our ecological footprints. A change is now urgent…

Ann White takes a look at three different building companies and weighs up their eco-credentials…

New housing developments need not link to centralised water and sewerage systems, writes Ann White…

Ann White writes on how signing up to the Living Smart Homes Project has proved a catalyst for deep changes…

In the job just six months, Andrew McNamara, Minister for Sustainability, Climate Change and Innovation, is enthusiastic about wrestling what he calls the “crouching tiger of climate change”…

The question of housing affordability is a furphy, says Alan Pears, a consultant and academic at the forefront of the energy debate in Australia. “We’ve got a seriously misguided debate going on at the moment about housing affordability with some saying we can’t afford sustainable features in new homes…