The report charts a pathway to a Tasmanian economy running entirely without fossil fuels – a carbon zero economy, the first of its kind in the world. It quantifies the opportunities arising from new energy infrastructure, the reduction in carbon emissions, and the amount of new infrastructure required.

This paper explores how knowledge of global climate change is re-scaled to local levels through city making discourses and practices such as municipal carbon accounting, and conversely how local experiments in low carbon transitions are framed as mobile and replicable solutions to a suite of urban and climate related issues.

The Living Building Challenge is an attempt to dramatically raise the bar from a paradigm of doing less harm to one in which we view our role as a steward and co-creator of a true Living Future. The Challenge defines the most advanced measure of sustainability in the built environment today and acts to rapidly...

In the light of growing trends in global carbon emissions, and the resultant impacts of climate change, it has become imperative for cities to reframe their development patterns and policies to facilitate a transition towards carbon neutrality. The 30-Year Plan of Greater Adelaide attempts to review and identify new ways of shaping the city’s development...

During 2017, Hepburn Shire Council held four Carbon Free Community Conversations and a follow up Carbon Free Action Workshop. The intention was to gauge the commitment of localities and towns across Hepburn Shire to becoming carbon neutral. At these sessions members of the community had discussions on topics, such as how carbon neutrality could be...