BHP Billiton outlines its approach to society, sustainability and climate change and provides downloads of sustainability reports. See http://www.bhpbilliton.com/society … [Read more...]
Living Sustainably: the Australian Government’s National Action Plan for Education for Sustainability
Living Sustainably: the Australian Government's National Action Plan for Education for Sustainability sets out a framework for national action that adopts four strategies to respond to the needs and priorities of education for sustainability. 'Demonstrating Australian Government leadership' aims to strengthen the government's leadership role in education for sustainability as an exemplar for change through its own policies, programs and operations and by promoting system-wide change through … [Read more...]
TAESUS501A Analyse and apply sustainability skills to learning programs
TAESUS501A Analyse and apply sustainability skills to learning programs is a unit of competency from the TAE10 Training and Education Training Package. It describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to identify explicit and embedded sustainability skills within training packages and accredited courses, and apply requirements to learning programs associated with the development of competence. This unit forms the Sustainable Practice Skill Set within the TAE10 Training and … [Read more...]
ABnote case study
ABnote identified several strategies to support sustainability in their facility design and management, providing energy and water savings of up to $22,000 at one plant. These included: Ensuring that evaporative air conditioning units are working properly Installing water-efficient fixtures in new plants Sensor systems for lighting and environmental controls Upgrading toilets to dual flush Installing rainwater tanks installed for non-drinking water use ‘Green teams’ doing audits to … [Read more...]
Oxford Cold Storage water capture initiative
Oxford Cold Storage uses 200 kilolitres of water every day for their evaporative cooling systems. With concerns about long term water supply and threat of price increases they applied for funding from the Australian Industry Group for a feasibility study to ascertain how water could be sourced from roofs and plant buildings. The study showed that 62% of potable water needs could be met by capturing water from the two roof areas (based on average yearly rainfall) saving almost $26,000 in … [Read more...]
The Australian Ecolabel Program
The Australian Ecolabel Program, managed by Good Environmental Choice Australia (GECA), is based on the international standard ISO 14024: "Environmental Labels and Declarations - Guiding Principles" which requires environmental labeling specifications to include criteria that are objective, reasonable and verifiable. The program has developed a number of voluntary standards for ‘environmentally preferable products’, based on a life cycle assessment approach to environmental performance … [Read more...]
National Waste Policy: Less waste more resources
The policy has a number of strategies for how govenments will support improved waste management and resource recovery. These include the Australian Packaging Covenant and proposed national product stewardship legislation. The aims of the National Waste Policy are to: avoid the generation of waste, reduce the amount of waste (including hazardous waste) for disposal manage waste as a resource ensure that waste treatment, disposal, recovery and re-use is undertaken in a safe, scientific … [Read more...]
National Pollutant Inventory reporting requirements (NPI)
Businesses have to report on their emissions and waste transfers if they trip the reporting thresholds which are defined for 93 substances, rates of burning waste and fuel and the rate and type of electricity usage. A series of Emission Estimation Technique (EET) manuals have been developed for each reporting industry. These outline the industry processes, various methods for estimating emissions and equations for converting different types of measurement. The full list of manuals is … [Read more...]
National Carbon Offset Standard (NCOS)
From 1 July 2010 Australia has a National Carbon Offset Standard (NCOS) to encourage businesses to offset their greenhouse-gas emissions in a voluntary carbon market. It provides a voluntary standard for businesses to use in becoming carbon neutral and in developing carbon neutral products. It also includes guidance on calculating the carbon footprint of an organisation or product and product life cycle analysis for the purpose of achieving ‘carbon neutrality’. Only emissions sources that … [Read more...]
ISO 14000 Set:2005 Environmental Management Standards set
The ISO 14000 family of standards addresses various aspects of environmental management which aims to control and improve the environmental performance of an organisation as measured against objectives. The standards are voluntary. The family of standards includes: ISO 1400 1 :2004 Environmental Management Systems (requirements) ISO 14004:2004 Environmental Management Systems (guidelines) ISO 14050:2009 Environmental management - Vocabulary ISO 14040:2006 Environmental … [Read more...]
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