sustainable

New website set to revolutionise gardening

5 Apr 2011, 9.53 AM

A revolutionary new website designed by researchers from the University of Melbourne and supported by Smart Water Fund and Savewater will help people across Melbourne create stunning, low maintenance and water-efficient gardens.

Can Broadmeadows be fully sustainable by 2032?

30 Sep 2010, 10.34 AM

Residences that generate power and purify grey water and farming fish and growing vegetables in a refurbished factory are two of the options being proposed in a new Victorian Eco-Innovation Labs (VEIL) plan to make Broadmeadows and other Melbourne suburbs ‘greener’ and healthier.

Grid, corridor and field: proposals for a sustainable Melbourne

22 Jun 2009, 11.10 AM

The roles existing cities and buildings have to play in a carbon free future are the central debate in a new Masters of Architecture Design Studio exhibition, to officially open tomorrow night.