Rest, one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member superannuation funds, is further diversifying its growing industrial property and impact investment allocations, positioning the fund to leverage increasing demand for energy efficient facilities across Europe. The super fund has today announced it has signed on as a cornerstone investor in Fidelity International’s Fidelity Real Estate Logistics Climate Impact Fund […]
Casella Family Brands’ new solar facility in Yenda, NSW. Photographer credit Vince Bucello John Casella, CEO of Casella Family Brands, announces today the company’s new major solar facility: “Switching on our multi-million dollar invested solar facility in Yenda – the largest solar facility in the Australian beverage market – is a major step forward for […]
Water Testing A pesticides compliance campaign by the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) and Nambucca Valley Council has found that water quality is not being impacted by excessive amounts of pesticides. As part of the EPA pesticide compliance campaign, EPA and Nambucca Valley officers last month inspected a range of local farms and undertook water […]
By Garry Valenzisi, Vice President & General Manager, Asia Pacific, Global Industries at Iron Mountain Australia is among the highest producers of e-waste, ranking as 5th top producer globally, generating 21.7kg of waste per person. In an era where technology is rapidly evolving at pace, the challenge of e-waste has become more and more pressing for […]
The critically endangered Central Rock-rat has been sighted on Hewitt’s Narwietooma property following ecological surveys conducted in partnership with Bush Heritage Australia. The discovery highlights the importance of collaboration between private land conservation groups and agricultural producers to protect ecosystems. Once thought extinct, the Central Rock-rat (Zyzomys pedunculatus) has disappeared from over 95% of its pre-European distribution across Central Australia. Conservationists now estimate that fewer than 650 individuals remain in the wild and the species has been identified by the […]
Scientists used data from ROVs and trawlers to estimate how much plastic pollution is on the ocean floor, where it can break down New research from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million tonnes of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor. Every minute, […]
A study comparing urban greenspaces with natural areas revealed they’re contributing a lot more to ecosystems than previously thought. Could urban parks be offering as much to the health of our ecosystems as natural, pristine reserves do? This is a question a global team of ecologists tackled in a recent study, with the answer coming […]