Sustainability

4 Pines Brewery goes solar as record-breaking weather becomes the norm

Finfeed Archived Feb 01, 2019

The past fortnight has seen record-breaking heatwaves in Australia, and on the other side of the globe, the US has gone into deep freeze lockdown mode that includes six states suspending postal services. Is this the end times? You’d be forgiven for asking yourself, when each day, there’s a new weather record somewhere in the world, or a bizarre and extreme weather event filling the headlines.

Ag-tech innovation will be key to China’s food supply challenge

Finfeed Archived Jan 30, 2019

China has to feed nearly three times the number of people per unit of land as the rest of the world – it has a fifth of the world’s entire population, with 1.4 billion people to feed.

These Israeli tech stocks are winning the market-disruption game, part 2

Finfeed Archived Jan 24, 2019

Yesterday, we outlined five ASX-listed Israeli tech stocks that are standing out. Here's another five to keep an eye on.

All hail hydrogen: Labor joins the party with $1B plan

Finfeed Archived Jan 23, 2019

The Labor Party today released its $1 billion ‘national hydrogen plan’ — to be mainly funded by the Clean Energy Finance Corporation. The hustle for hydrogen power is here.

These Israeli tech stocks are winning the market-disruption game, part 1

Finfeed Archived Jan 23, 2019

There are now some 17 Israel-born companies on the ASX, most of which are small caps, playing in a diverse range of tech-heavy markets, from telecommunications and digital media through to innovations in agriculture and legalised weed. We have scoped out 10 you should keep an eye on, and are starting with the following five.

Australia hit by record heat, while Infigen’s sails lose wind

Finfeed Archived Jan 16, 2019

While up to 1 million fish die, and Australia is hit with a record-breaking heatwave, the federal government is still ignoring the policy vacuum. Meanwhile, wind farm developer Infigen looks to be in troubled waters.

Simble wins UK government grant for analytics app

Finfeed Archived Jan 14, 2019

Simble Solutions, along with Cambridge Architectural Research Limited, has been awarded a £383,000 (A$680,000) UK government grant from The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) as part of a funding scheme to support energy efficiency projects in UK homes.

Bali’s plastic ban: another win for bioplastics

Finfeed Archived Jan 10, 2019

SECOS Group (ASX:SES) is at the forefront in bringing bioplastic compostable films and resins into the mainstream to replace the widespread use of traditional petroleum based plastics.

Warmer oceans and greener concrete

Finfeed Archived Jan 10, 2019

Eden Innovations' (ASX:EDE) carbon-based technology that creates greener and superior performance concrete, which considerably reduces the quantities of traditional concrete required.

Worrying weather & can iron make 'clean' hydrogen?

Finfeed Archived Dec 20, 2018

This last week in Australia has brought some pretty whacky weather, to put it bluntly. A snapshot of headlines: ‘Victoria's freak floods prompt 1,400 calls for help’; 'Exceptional' rain from ex-Cyclone Owen dumps 681mm in north Qld in a day’.

Ag-tech solutions needed more than ever as growers face water crisis

Finfeed Archived Dec 17, 2018

With the threat of prices rising even further, many growers are even reconsidering the cost-benefit-risk profile of planting crops at all. Water prices have doubled in the last 12 months, putting pressure on crop growers across several regions of Australia.

How one man hopes to reclaim Australia’s energy policy

Finfeed Archived Dec 12, 2018

Mike Cannon Brookes’ is running with his 'fair dinkum power' campaign, with his most recent efforts including an interview with Al Gore on the former US vice-president's 24 hours of Reality broadcast. He made sure to point the finger at the current government over energy policy.

SECOS Group updates market on Malaysian property sale

Finfeed Archived Dec 10, 2018

SECOS Group has provided an update on the sale and leaseback of its Malaysian property. The ASX small cap has achieved a sale price of MYR 10.5 million (A$3.5 million) for the land and building.

Drought, bushfires and flooding rains – is Australia uninsurable?

Finfeed Archived Dec 06, 2018

The CEO of Bureau of Meteorology linked climate change with increasing fire risk and warned that the fire risk in QLD is set to intensify. Reports from a few days ago stated that 100 blazes were still burning across QLD.

Energy policy fail: Victorian Liberal Party is now powerless

Finfeed Archived Nov 27, 2018

Energy has been a controversial topic surrounding PM Scott Morrison’s leadership from the get-go, with the context for his rise to the most powerful position in Australia revolving around the failed National Energy Guarantee. Turnbull’s failings around this policy led to the leadership spill and this legacy has haunted Morrison ever since.

A sustainable coffee start-up, you say…

Finfeed Archived Nov 22, 2018

The Cup eXchange (TCX) is an Australian start-up dedicated to the habits of billions of people: coffee. TCX is a technology-enabled coffee cup subscription service that will officially launch to market in February 2019.

< prev Page 3 of 3