The rugged landscape of the Grampians Peaks Trail in Western Victoria offers not only a world class hiking experience but also important environmental protection for the pristine Gariwerd wilderness.
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Adelaide has been named the world’s second National Park City by the UK-based National Park City Foundation.
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The NZILA is disappointed none of its submissions around the Natural and Built Environments Bill have been accepted. The Environment Committee released its report on the inquiry into the proposed bill earlier this week.
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Prince William has revealed the 15 finalists for the inaugural and ambitious Earthshot Prize.
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Auckland University affiliated researchers have successfully demonstrated that cows can be toilet trained with the idea of helping to reduce water contamination and greenhouse gas emissions.
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What precisely does the word environment mean? The NZILA believes it needs to be clearly defined in the proposed Natural and Built Environment Bill if the new legislation is to be successful.
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The devil may well be in the detail but on the face of it the Government plans for reformation of the Resource Management Act look promising says independent researcher, Dr Diane Menzies.
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New Zealand has joined 32 other countries in declaring a climate emergency. At the same time the Government has promised all its departments and ministries will be carbon neutral by 2025.
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Jason deCaires Taylor’s latest sculpture installation combines marine science, coral gardening, underwater and environmental art, and architecture.
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Isthmus’ Brennan Baxley responds to an installation by Austrian eco-visionary designer Klaus Loenhart at Victoria University of Wellington, along with the lecture titled Imagine! The city as a living biome.
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On the back of global climate change protests CMG Landscape Architecture has launched the Climate Positive Design Challenge, which enables professionals around the world to take climate action.
London has implemented an Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) in the central city, meaning drivers of older, more polluting vehicles are being charged to enter the congestion zone.
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Find out which 2 NZ projects have been shortlisted alongside this one in the conceptual section of the 2019 WLA awards
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Pāmu stands as one of the old hands in the industry, formerly known as Landcorp, the farming operations company was seeded 130 years ago and has since helped forge New Zealand's $2-billion-dollar agriculture sector. It has produced the majority of New Zealand farms – more than 25,000 – and has transformed our land from forestry into pastoral farming.
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Our farming systems stand on the precipice of intense change. The task of how to feed a growing population that is set to reach 10 billion people by 2050 in the face of climate change, resource scarcity, and land degradation has forced innovation to spur. Scientists and technologists have blown the whistle on traditional farming methods and subsequently, new systems of agriculture have emerged.
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Late last year, the mayor of Boston’s announced the City of Boston and SCAPE Studios’ Resilient Boston Harbor Vision, a plan to reshape the city’s 47-mile shoreline to both protect the city from major flooding events, and increase open space and access to the waterfront for residents.
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New Zealanders are very attached to their own patches of lawn, the monotonous whirring of mowers a soundtrack to our weekends and long summer evenings, accompanied by petrol fumes and the smell of freshly cut grass. But is it time to get rid of traditional lawns for the environments sake? A pair of urban ecologists - one from Australia, the other from Sweden, certainly think it might be.
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