Environment
An award-winning inventor examines strategies for a climate-friendly life[1 April 2010]
Dr. Saul Griffith has multiple degrees in materials science and mechanical engineering and completed his PhD in Programmable Assembly and Self Replicating machines at MIT. He has received numerous awards including the National Inventors Hall of Fame Collegiate Inventor's award and a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship. He is the co-founder of several companies including Low Cost Eyeglasses, Squid Labs, Potenco, Instructables.com, HowToons and Makani Power. More
Lecture - Global Warming: How policy can catch up to the science and solve the problem[19 February 2010]
Geoscientist Michael Oppenheimer has been involved in the climate change discussion since the late 1980s when he helped precipitate the negotiations that resulted in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol... More
Green Globe Award Win[31 July 2009]
The University of Sydney's Integrated Sustainability Analysis Team wins a prestigious Green Globe Award. More
Seed funding annoucement[16 June 2009]
$500,000 has been awarded by the Institute for Sustainable Solutions as 'seed funding' for interdisciplinary research into Sustainable Solutions More
Focus on the Future Lecture: transport after crude oil- 6:30pm, 18 June [11 June 2009]
The Institute for Sustainable Solution invites you to the second Focus on the Future Lecture for 2009; transport after crude oil More
Graduate Perspectives from Australia, China, and the US - Harvard University[20 May 2009]
Applications are now open for Australian students wishing to attend the Climate Conference: Science and Humanities. The Conference will be held at Harvard University on the 3-4 March 2010. More
One Million Women: the launch of an exciting new climate change initiative[19 May 2009]
The University of Sydney's Institute for Sustainable Solutions hosted the launch of the One Million Women Campaign. The campaign aims to enlist one million women across Australia, to commit to reducing their carbon emissions by one tonne annually. More
Economic Growth Version 1.0 is finished: The great disruption has begun[29 April 2009]
Paul Gilding a prominent Australian writer and activist for action on climate change and sustainability, launched the 2009 Focus on the Future series for 2009. His lecture addressed a new model of economic growth and discussed the current global ecological crisis. More
Catlysis Public Lecture and Symposium[17 April 2009]
A Public Lecture followed by a three day Symposium exploring the role of catalysis as a key to sustainability were held at the University from the 14-17th of April. More