From The Australian, Entrepreneur: Travel broadened the mind for an adventurer who is into cleaner motoring, writes Ed Charles | July 27, 2007 IN starting a business or achieving anything in life, timing and chance play as large a part as passion. For Daniel Epstein, a lifelong environmentalist who recently returned to Melbourne after living in San Francisco and then Byron Bay, all three came together earlier this year. First, global warming and the environment reached the political agenda and […]
Tag: Environment
In The Black: The power of three
When it comes to embracing the concept of the triple bottom line, Australian companies have a long way to go. From In The Black.
CFO: Lend Lease chills out
Australia’s brightest and best new buildings use state-of-the-art technology to cut costs and make employees happy. CFO 01 April 2004.
CFO: KPMG gets smart
The firm’s commitment to sustainability has helped it to secure a new building for the price of refurbishing an old one. CFO 01 April 2004.
CFO: Rents get green light
The soft property market is about to firm up, but tenants are looking beyond cheap deals in their search for value. CFO 01 April 2004.
CFO: So much for competition
Written in 2002 for CFO. Plus ca change… Reform in the energy markets has resulted in upheaval and credit risk, writes Ed Charles
The hydrogen economy is so happening.
This was written for a state government department a year or so ago. How can the state’s and the Federal government be so at odds on the environment and energy policy? Whatever happened to hype? We live in a hydrocarbon world. Eight out of ten of the world’s biggest companies are dependant on hydrocarbons. But within fifty years the focus of the world’s energy needs will be a clean non-polluting fuel, hydrogen. The hydrogen economy will be born. In theory […]
Rember Enron? The energy industry will
This was written for a state government department a year or so ago. How can the state’s and the Federal government be so at odds on the environment and energy policy? Enron changed everything. When the company, at the time the sixth largest in the world, collapsed investor sentiment turned against the seemingly copper-bottomed energy sector. In the report A world of difference – strategic options for Australia’s energy sector published by PricewaterhouseCoopers last November, the consultancy noted that Enron […]
Mandatory renewable energy targets
This was written two years ago for a state government department. And things have got worse for the renewables sector… Who is the most unpopular person in the renewable energy sector at the moment? It’s easily the author of the Council of Australian Government (COAG) energy market review published late last year – the Hon Warwick Parer. Parer attacked the federal government’s Mandatory Energy Renewables Targets (MRET). The report concluded that the energy industry was facing large costs because of […]