July 2010 - Issue #10
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Switched-on scholar masters the power game
We mostly take electricity for granted, but its delivery, affordability and reliability are constantly challenged, and now comes the puzzle of how to also fit in new ‘green’ technologies
Education’s role in driving sustainability
Swinburne University of Technology’s sense of responsibility in preparing tomorrow’s leaders for the challenges of a rapidly changing, interconnected world means we are embracing a broad concept of sustainability, one that includes interrelated environmental, socio-cultural and financial dimensions.
Web tool to get us tanked up
Swinburne’s Dr Monzur Imteaz is developing simple tools to analyse and design stormwater systems.
Car makers hear an electric buzz
Universities and other research bodies in Victoria are teaming up to put Australia at the forefront of electric car technology
Electric cars drive industry training opportunities
Growing interest in electric cars has opened up opportunities to develop electric vehicle courses.
Future travels down a glass highway
Mountains of waste glass that would otherwise go to landfill may soon find a home in Victoria’s roads and footpaths
Slow lifts a lesson in step-change
Sustainability has become a buzzword for the early 21st century, evoking worthy ideals … but how are these transformed into reality when much about the way the world functions seems to make people inherently wasteful or destructive?
Swinburne Sustainability Strategy: more than just another policy document
The Swinburne Sustainability Strategy – Swinburne’s commitment to sustainability – has a set of outcome measures that will ensure all Swinburne courses embed sustainability and that 50 per cent of staff are upskilled by 2015.
New course embeds sustainability in educational practice
Swinburne’s National Centre for Sustainability has developed and is now teaching Australia’s first accredited course in education and training for sustainability.
Tradies turn a greener shade
Through ‘green’ training on water-wise plumbing and irrigation systems, recycled greywater and solar insulation Swinburne University of Technology is helping to prepare Australia for a more sustainable, low-carbon future.
Surprise findings in business carbon chase
A groundbreaking study by a team at Swinburne University of Technology has found that smaller companies would have little to fear from a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) … if or when Australia gets one.
Humble shellfish may give us ‘vanishing plastic’
A truly biodegradable plastic made from a renewable resource, arguably one of the more practical waste-management goals being pursued around the world, is a step closer through the research of two Australian PhD students
Internet power may need computers to sleep
Swinburne researchers are examining how internet use can be made more efficient, for example at how improved regulation of computer processing speed could save energy.
How gran’s gift turned sunlight into people power
A Swinburne student has a lot to teach, after interrupting his studies to build an energy company
Our cannibal galaxy
In a fascinating new piece of ‘galactic archaeology’ astronomers have found that up to one-quarter of the Milky Way’s galactic clusters are intruders
Queen to viral pawn
Mathematicians are attempting to develop algorithms to solve ‘master equations’ that could one day help biomedicine even the odds against infectious diseasesAussie ambitions for gourmet treasure
A Swinburne horticulturalist has travelled to the horticultural and gastronomic home of truffles to help develop truffle growing in Australia
