La Trobe University will become Victoria’s first zero-emissions University under an ambitious project announced yesterday. A $75 million initiative combining 20 separate projects will ensure La Trobe will have Net Zero emissions by 2029. Vice-Chancellor Professor John Dewar said the University was committed to making real change for long-term benefit….

Biofilta, a leading Australian urban farming and stormwater harvesting company, has joined forces with injection moulding company, Von Pace Group, to officially launch a Melbourne designed and manufactured urban farming system that is set to transform city spaces into highly productive, efficient urban farms, and turn cities into food growing…

The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), a non-profit Washington, D.C.-based education and advocacy organisation announced that it will establish an international landscape architecture prize to be conferred biennially. This is the first and only international landscape architecture prize that includes a US$100 000 monetary award. In addition, the prize features two…

Experts warn a major opportunity to improve sustainability in Victoria is being missed by focusing exclusively on patching up recycling systems, while failing to address more fundamental issues. In a submission just made to the Victoria Government’s circular economy discussion paper, Professor Usha Iyer-Raniga and fellow RMIT University sustainability experts highlighted…

Fossil is the latest botanical installation from Wona Bae and Charlie Lawler, the experimental minds behind Melbourne’s Loose Leaf Studio. The work saw the duo transform a disused and abandoned Melbourne petrol station using hundreds of giant dried leaves. Fossil asks questions of the past, present and future of forgotten…