Environment
Sustainability
400,000 dead chickens: Bird flu outbreak at Victorian farm spreads to second location
Thousands of chickens have been killed to stem the spread of a deadly strain of bird flu, but the disease has already been discovered at a second poultry farm in the state’s south-west.
- by Bianca Hall
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Developed in a lab and grown in a vat: It’s meat, but not as you know it
Global demand for meat is growing. Without innovation, this will put more pressure on land clearing and greenhouse gas emissions. Could cultured meat be the solution?
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Nearly a million NSW households face new charges for solar exports
Regional electricity distributors Essential Energy and Endeavour Energy joined Ausgrid in announcing charges for solar customers exporting too much energy in the middle of the day.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Solar panel owners slugged by Ausgrid for generating too much power
Hundreds of thousands of Sydney households with solar panels but no home batteries will be penalised for exporting electricity to the network during the day.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Recycling
Cycling’s dirty secret: 300,000 bikes a year dumped in landfill
The frenzy of bicycle purchases during the early COVID-19 pandemic is about to make the problem even worse. But one Sydney group has rescued almost 11,000 bikes from landfill.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Are wine drinkers too snobbish to drink wine from cans instead of glass?
Winemakers spruik the environmental credentials of canned wine, but retail sales suggest drinkers are yet to be convinced to give up the bottle.
- by Andrew Taylor
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Renewables
Zen Energy's Tunnel Project to Power Half a Million Homes
An eight-metre wide tunnel connecting Lake Burragorang to a reservoir built into the pit of a disused coal washery will create hydropower for 500,000 homes.
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Fashion retail
How a dress rented 53 times saved the equivalent of 159 trees
There’s a new trend in fashion: sustainability, with many shoppers no longer trying before they buy, merely renting.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons