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Getting rid of plastic bags: a windfall for supermarkets but it won't do much for the environment

  • Written by: Gary Mortimer, Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology

Moves by major supermarkets to stop providing free plastic bags could earn these businesses more than A$1 million a year, but may only have a small impact on the environment.

Australia’s two supermarket giants, Woolworths and Coles, have announced that their stores will stop offering their regular plastic bags within 12 months. Instead,...

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The Great Galactic Recession

  • Written by: Alan Duffy, Associate Professor and Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
imageThe density of gas in and around a simulated galaxy just over a billion years after the Big Bang. New gas is arriving at too great a rate for the galaxy to convert it into stars and the gas piles up.Alan Duffy/Swinburne University, Author provided

A key sign of a recession is when the market can’t respond to greater supplies of raw materials...

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Taxing empty homes: a step towards affordable housing, but much more can be done

  • Written by: Hal Pawson, Associate Director - City Futures - Urban Policy and Strategy, City Futures Research Centre, Housing Policy and Practice, UNSW
imageVacant and unlit 'ghost' apartments are a source of public outrage in major cities around the world.leniners/flickr, CC BY-NC

Vacant housing rates are rising in our major cities. Across Australia on census night, 11.2% of housing was recorded as unoccupied – a total of 1,089,165 dwellings. With housing affordability stress also intensifying,...

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Smart or dumb? The real impact of India's proposal to build 100 smart cities

  • Written by: Hugh Byrd, Professor of Architecture, University of Lincoln
imagePart of Mumbai’s character is in its chawls, which could soon become history with the state government’s push to replace them with high-rise towers.from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND

In 2014, the new Indian government declared its intention to achieve 100 smart cities.

In promoting this objective, it gave the example of a large...

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