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Mark Boulet Research Fellow, BehaviourWorks Australia

How to reduce your festive footprint

Plastic packaging, damaged decorations, gift wrapping, food waste – trailing the Christmas celebrations is a mountain of rubbish. What can we do to limit it?

Plastic packaging, damaged decorations, gift wrapping, food waste – trailing the Christmas celebrations is a mountain of rubbish. What can we do to limit it?

What Happens Next?

Susan Carland Director, Bachelor of Global Studies

Episode 3: The Mess We're In

We’re not going to recycle our way out of this one. It takes awareness and education to change our behaviours surrounding waste. Find out what you can do.

We’re not going to recycle our way out of this one. It takes awareness and education to change our behaviours surrounding waste. Find out what you can do.

What Happens Next?

Susan Carland Director, Bachelor of Global Studies

Episode 2: No Time to Waste

In this episode we talk to a campaigner who forced a major supermarket to better consider sustainability in its promotions and discover how marketing research can help organisations do it better.

In this episode we talk to a campaigner who forced a major supermarket to better consider sustainability in its promotions and discover how marketing research can help organisations do it better.

What Happens Next?

Kim Borg Research Officer, BehaviourWorks Australia

Episode 1 : Trash Talk

Susan Carland is joined by researchers and behaviour change experts from BehaviourWorks Australia – together they talk global waste.

Susan Carland is joined by researchers and behaviour change experts from BehaviourWorks Australia – together they talk global waste.

Technology And Engineering

Saman Ilankoon Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering

Turning e-waste trash into treasure

The World Economic Forum estimates e-waste to be worth US$62.5 billion annually, but only 20 per cent is recycled through appropriate channels.

The World Economic Forum estimates e-waste to be worth US$62.5 billion annually, but only 20 per cent is recycled through appropriate channels.

Putting health on the table

Drawing on a passion that runs through his family, Dr Sandro Demaio returns to Australia to improve people’s wellbeing – starting in the kitchen.

Drawing on a passion that runs through his family, Dr Sandro Demaio returns to Australia to improve people’s wellbeing – starting in the kitchen.

Greening the Big Apple

As COO of New York’s Green Bank, Caroline Angoorly is helping the city achieve its 100 per cent renewable electricity grid.

As COO of New York’s Green Bank, Caroline Angoorly is helping the city achieve its 100 per cent renewable electricity grid.

Education

Education

A flair for international collaboration

With a flair for international collaboration, Sze-yin Tan is advancing clean recycling technologies.

With a flair for international collaboration, Sze-yin Tan is advancing clean recycling technologies.

Clear outlook for BOM

Meet Graham Hawke, the BOM’s backroom strategist helping climate-sensitive industries and governments prepare for future weather events.

Meet Graham Hawke, the BOM’s backroom strategist helping climate-sensitive industries and governments prepare for future weather events.

How snow shapes water futures

More than 1.5 billion people rely on ice melt for their water, and at NASA, Kat Bormann, is unlocking critical information about water availability based on snowfall.

More than 1.5 billion people rely on ice melt for their water, and at NASA, Kat Bormann, is unlocking critical information about water availability based on snowfall.

ClimateWorks: Leading the way to global emissions reductions

In its 10th anniversary year, ClimateWorks continues to lead the way for real-world emissions reductions. ClimateWorks CEO Anna Skarbek works with a diverse range of industries with the aim of achieving net zero emissions by 2050.

In its 10th anniversary year, ClimateWorks continues to lead the way for real-world emissions reductions. ClimateWorks CEO Anna Skarbek works with a diverse range of industries with the aim of achieving net zero emissions by 2050.

Electric dreams

At Tesla, Daniel Wielechowski is working towards his goals for sustainable development.

At Tesla, Daniel Wielechowski is working towards his goals for sustainable development.

On the frontline of climate wars

As CEO of the Climate Council, Amanda McKenzie is on the frontline of the climate wars between those who accept the science and urgency of climate change, and those who don't.

As CEO of the Climate Council, Amanda McKenzie is on the frontline of the climate wars between those who accept the science and urgency of climate change, and those who don't.

Business and economy

Business And Economy

Business and economy

Selling surfing's soul

The corporate high-performance, merchandise-heavy, social media-driven vision of surfing isn't one shared by many wave riders.

David Gilbert Professor, Monash Business School

The corporate high-performance, merchandise-heavy, social media-driven vision of surfing isn't one shared by many wave riders.

Politics And Society

Rob Brimblecombe Manager, Engineering and Sustainability

Rethinking plastic to change the system

Although bans on single-use plastic products can be effective, we need to change our mindset on their value.

Although bans on single-use plastic products can be effective, we need to change our mindset on their value.

Annette Bos Associate Professor, Monash Sustainable Development Institute

A call for action, from Townsville to Tuvalu

A new report says policymakers need to address the impact of environmental changes on health in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.

A new report says policymakers need to address the impact of environmental changes on health in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.

Featured

Paul Read Senior Lecturer, School of Psychological Sciences

What lies beneath

The fires in the Amazon are already a major threat to the environment, and a potentially bigger disaster awaits below the ground. Could we reach the tipping point for climate change?

The fires in the Amazon are already a major threat to the environment, and a potentially bigger disaster awaits below the ground. Could we reach the tipping point for climate change?

Technology And Engineering

Khu Soon-Thiam Head of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Malaysia School of Engineering

A river restored runs through it

Pressures of land management and poor waste management have reduced many of the world's rivers to waste dumping grounds.

Pressures of land management and poor waste management have reduced many of the world's rivers to waste dumping grounds.

Medicine And Health

Paul Wood Adjunct Professor in Biotechnology

Overcooked!

Meat substitutes and alternatives might play a positive role but they aren't going to save the planet.

Meat substitutes and alternatives might play a positive role but they aren't going to save the planet.

Medicine And Health