Aust Conserv

A new international agreement signed today will see clean energy companies in Australia working more closely with their counterparts in Singapore to help drive regional investment and clean tech development in Asia.

Australia's Clean Energy Council (CEC) and the Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore (SEAS) have signed a new cooperative agreement in Singapore today, marking an important step forward in the strategic alliance of the two emerging industries.

It has never been more important to consider cutting down on energy use and reducing household energy bills. Sony's new energy-efficient TV has arrived in Australia to help consumers reduce their power consumption. The Sony TV - the BRAVIA WE5 - has been designed with unique energy-saving features, such as the "Presence Sensor" that automatically turns off the TV when no one is detected in the room.

Recently the co-founders of Ecovative Design, who live by the cradle-to-cradle philosophy, have invented two revolutionary new products from mushroom roots, "Greensulate" and "Acorn".

These two products could be alternative products for energy conservation and waste reduction. "Acorn" is a compostable packaging material and "Greensulate" is an organic insulation.

To make "Acorn" and "Greensulate", the founders of Ecovative Design, Gavin McIntyre and Eben Bayer, use the roots" of mushrooms known as fungal mycelium. The fungal mycelium acts as resin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resin.

The resin gives agricultural byproducts the ability to bond into "a rigid material" Because the mycelium is not allowed to grow long enough to produce mushrooms there is no risk of the production of spores and allergens.

AustConserv have an exciting new development to present to the eco community.

For all of those people out there love their iPhones or other mobile devices, we've now created a neat mobile version of the website. It's good looking, light weight and very easy to use.

Preview it at http://m.austconserv.com.

We're still in BETA but hope to provide our new mini site by April.

It contains a complete business search, daily tips, RSS news and lots more to come.

If you have any questions then please contact us.

The AustConserv iPhone application is coming soon.

We're putting together this little iPhone application for our users to be able to view and search for eco friendly businesses around Australia on their iPhones.

You will be able to download the application to your iPhone and hundreds of businesses will be at your finger tips.

Subscribe to our newsletter to find out when it will be launched.

Name:


Email:

 

Energy efficiency and renewable energy will need to deliver more than three quarters of the world?s greenhouse emission reductions by 2030 if the world is to see only a 2°C increase in global average temperatures, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) said yesterday.

In his keynote speech to the Clean Energy Council?s conference on the Gold Coast, Mr Nobuo Tanaka told delegates that the world?s energy system sits at a crossroads.

Current global trends in energy supply and consumption are patently unsustainable. Preventing irreversible damage to the global climate ultimately requires a major decarbonisation of world energy sources,? Mr Tanaka, Executive Director of the IEA said.