Ambitious home energy upgrade programs aimed at improving energy efficiency face several key questions and challenges if they’re to succeed.
If a future Coalition government was to bring nuclear into the mix, energy costs for residential and, especially, industrial customers would likely increase.
Cost-of-living increases, inflation, and energy prices affect everyone. And that matters even more when we’re amid a significant generational shift in voting patterns.
Any incentives for energy upgrades need to consider past experience to maximise uptake, prevent unintended consequences, and reduce the likelihood that such schemes will further entrench disadvantage.
As living costs continue to rise, it’s clear Australians are changing their buying behaviours in response to financial pessimism.
A new report has found that electrifying the residential sector will result in cutting household energy costs, provide health benefits, and drive job creation.
The cost-of-living crisis is fuelling a surge in shoplifting, and a majority of younger consumers see it as “a little” to “completely” justifiable, a new retail study has found.
A four-year study of households has shown how the increasing focus on our homes as sites of work, rest and play can increase energy use despite soaring prices.
More needs to be done to raise public awareness about e-waste management and proper disposal protocols in Malaysia, particularly for household e-waste.
This week on Monash University's “What Happens Next?” podcast, meet the change-makers on the front lines of food.
The first Labor budget in nine years, delivered against a grim economic backdrop, contains few surprises as it charts Australia's way through uncertain times and high-cost hazards.
The hidden costs of loneliness can devastate both individuals and society. Learn about its modern roots in a new episode of Monash University's podcast, 'What Happens Next?'.
Researchers have taken a giant leap towards claiming the holy grail of renewable energy by creating a lithium-sulfur battery that’s faster, cleaner, and lasts longer.
Wasting food feeds climate change, but relatively small changes can make a big difference. Here are six to try,
The use of air purifiers is on the rise, but the energy sector is yet to consider what the uptake might mean for household energy use and our decarbonisation goals.
Unpacking where the money’s going, and what it means for you and the post-COVID recovery.
The discarding of barely-worn clothes is wasting our natural resources and contributing to our greenhouse emissions.
Research on the UK's COVID-19 lockdown shows that those who coped best with the challenge have high levels of self-efficacy – a self-belief in their ability to successfully accomplish goals and solve difficult problems.
If the energy market reform roadmap released by the Energy Security Board in September is to succeed, it needs to focus more on consumer outcomes.
In this episode of the What Happens Next? podcast we’re talking practical steps for embracing renewable energy in our own lives.
Many more households face financial hardship and discomfort at home this winter, as we physically self-isolate from work, family and friends due to COVID-19.
Putting food on the table is increasingly becoming a middle-class problem for many families.
In the wake of the UN's groundbreaking drug policy commitment, the time is right for drug laws reform.
We love our food, but waste an extraordinary amount of it. Now, research is looking at how repurposing this waste food biomass can be turned into profit.
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