Practical Resources

The UK Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee has launched an inquiry into sustainable development in the draft National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), which was published in draft on 25 July 2011. See: Sustainable Development in the National Planning Framework Let us see what they find and how the approach is embraced by local communities throughout the UK.

The Outlaws who fuel wars and deliver aid.

Bio-Mimicry is an approach to learning from nature on how to adapt to our world sustainably. How do we create zero carbon food, reverse desertification and provide the water we need? Michael Pawlyn helps us to learn how to create sustainable design. He sets our souls ablaze with visions of a future that few of

Managing Assets to keep Body and Spirit Strong was delivered to the EAROPH Congress in Adelaide, South Australia in November 2010. Some capital investments result in the improved well-being of a nation’s peoples. Some result in both the body and the spirit, individually and collectively, being weakened. The absence of capital investments, individually and collectively, results in either

The Global Reporting Initiative has released its “Sustainability Reporting Guidelines“. These guidelines provide tools to assist organisations to “meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations”. The guidelines has been developed “To support this expectation, and to communicate clearly and openly about sustainability” and includes “a globally shared framework of

State of Australian Cities Report 2010 was published in March 2010 by the Major Cities Unit of Infrastructure Australia.  The report puts Australian cities in an international context, and reports on their population and settlement, productivity, sustainability, liveability, social inclusion and equity and governance. It recognises that “Australia is one of the world’s more urbanised nations,

The Proposed International Standard on Assurance Engagements “ISAE3410, Assurance Engagements on Green House Gas Statements” (Exposure Draft) was approved for publication by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board in January 2011. Comments are sought by June 2011. Many professional accountants practise in the field of assurance on sustainability and similar reports. This exposure draft

The Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants (CAPA), in 2009, surveyed the accounting professional bodies from across the region on “the ways they are addressing the increasingly serious and complex social and environmental issues in today’s world that require the strict attention and concern of businesses and investment communities”. The report “Main Survey Report on

Dr. Penny Burns of  Talking Infrastructure and EAROPH life member, told the  National Infrastructure Summit in Regina, Canada from 26 – 28th January, 2011 that innovative asset management and financing solutions are not enough. We need innovative design to arrive at a new infrastructure that creates value, and is environmentally and financially sustainable. Listen to

Dr. Robyn Keast has worked with the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth to prepare face sheets on collaboration. These fact sheets are a valuable resource and I recommend that readers extend the principles to your areas of interest.