The Australian Bite
Posts Tagged ‘ architecture’
Talking about Green Cities
27 February 2010
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This week on the Australian Bite, we drop in on the Green Cities 2010 conference held last week in Melbourne. We’ll meet Romilly Madew, Chief Executive of the Green Building Council, who’ll tell us exactly what a Green City is, and how Australian cities are moving along the path to becoming more sustainable. Engineer and sustainability consultant Shane Esmore will tell us how the experts can measure the carbon footprint of buildings, and where things are heading with more environmentally friendly building materials. And environmental consultant Brenda Kingston will talk about the importance of indoor environmental quality.
Buildings, bees and sistagirls
3 December 2009
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Bee in macro by StephenMitchell (flickr)
This week on the Australian Bite, landscape architect Andrew Prowse will tell us about his great job designing a town high on the side of a mountain in Papua New Guinea’s Enga province. We’ll hear about a tiny mite that strikes terror into the hearts of Australian beekepers. And artist and photographer Bindi Cole will explain the background to the photograph that’s just won her a major indigenous art award – the Deadly Art Award.
Surfing, whales and a home underground
25 June 2009
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This week on the Bite we join a whale-watching trip off the coast of Queensland, we take a look at the book that won this year’s Miles Franklin literary award – Tim Winton’s “Breath”, and we take a tour of an underground house in the opal mining town of White Cliffs, in north west New South Wales.