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Australian dietary guidelines

NHMRC’s healthy diet is also good for the environment

Advancing Sustainability - Symposium

Advancing Sustainability in Education and Research: Academic Symposium

Sustainable Development: Beyond Carbon

La Trobe hosts sustainability Business Forum in Melbourne

The negative-sum choice

International climate negotiations in Durban

Live Blogging from COP17.

Simon Molesworth blogs live from COP17 Climate Change Conferencee

Crying Wolf comes at a risk

Lobbyists run the risk of misrepresenting communities

Fixing water problems ‘once and for all’

Uncertainty plagues Murray-Darling ambitions

Talk is cheap

Basin woes: Talking to the community comes at a hefty price

Communities take charge of power

Conference to showcase projects that use green energy

Improving climate change reportage

More issues need to be covered when it comes to climate change

Domestic gardens can improve wellbeing

Why having a garden is good for more than just your physical health

National Recycling Week BBQ

BBQ and prize giveaways in the Agora on the 10 November

Studies to stop toxic foam

La Trobe waste water research leads to national trials

Food security for a crowded planet

VIDEO: 'Godfather' gene discovery boosts crop production

Local projects must get slice of Clean Energy Fund

Community projects must get slice of $10 billion Clean Energy Fund

Big FAT Ideas videos now live

Seven academics confront topical issues in the Big FAT Ideas videos

Advancing Sustainability - Forum

2012 La Trobe Sustainability Symposium and Business Forum

Science and sustainability

Food security and a healthy environment under microscope at La Trobe

Environmentalist Paul Hawken in Bendigo

Renowned environmentalist to discuss the business of sustainability

Plastic pollution threat to seabirds

New study into risks faced by young Shearwaters on Phillip Island

La Trobe takes another national award

La Trobe takes home 'Green Gown' sustainability award

Not all doom and gloom for regional communities

Electricity prices will rise, but right approach will blunt impact

'Ban the Bottle' day 2011

Campaign to ban plastic water bottles event - Agora, October 6

The Sustainable MBA

Presentation: The Sustainable MBA, a Manager's guide to Green Business

Sustainability in KL panel discussion

La Trobe hosts a discussion on sustainability issues in Malaysia

2011 Dean’s Public Lecture

Implications of climate change and its challenges

History of the youth climate movement

Guest speaker: Ellen Sandell leading commentator on climate change

Sneak peek at AgriBio

VIDEO: Minister's Denis Lapthine and Peter Walsh tour AgriBio

2011 Lunchtime Discussion Series

Seminar: Working for the IPCC: extreme interdisciplinarity

Managing for climate change online

A new approach to learning with an online course in the regions.

National Parks and private enterprise

Our national parks are too precious to allow careless development

Tuna or not tuna?

The real cost of taking a fish out of water

Climate change: science, society and us

Climate scientist Dr Graeme Pearman will present a public lecture

Council appoints new Vice-Chancellor

Professor John Dewar appointed Vice-Chancellor of La Trobe University

Sustainability Report wins award

Responsible Futures awarded best 'First Time Sustainability Report.'

Lunchtime sustainability seminars

It's time to broaden the sustainability agenda

Research innovation focus in Vietnam

Southeast Asian conference hosts academics from around the world.

ACTU President to talk on climate change

ACTU President to speak on Climate Change at Bendigo campus

Do the right thing, use the right bin

New recycling campaign launched with free lunch

Global warming: Tim Flannery

Will Australians support the struggle against global warming?

Award for carbon reduction technology

La Trobe technology helps reduce household carbon ‘footprint’

The Second Law of Thermodynamics

Why an increase in background temperature is a bad thing

Sweden bound scholars

$10,000 scholarships will be used to travel to Malmo Uni

Climate think tank to help businesses

Workshop in Bendigo to help business leaders adapt to climate change

La Trobe campus wins architecture prize

New building a ‘powerful contribution’ to Shepparton’s civic realm

Bullying climate change scientists

The tactical stupidity of threatening climate scientists

Students get a world-wide lesson in city planning

Students learn how to accomodate Aussie population growth

Global impact of Victorian bushfires

Volcanic smoke not alone at stratospheric heights

Free uni courses reach all walks of life

The Melbourne Free University was founded by three La Trobe scholars.

La Trobe champions student success

La Trobe’s low SES and regional students thrive

Top ten list of new species

Only one species decides the top 10 list and that species is us

La Trobe celebrates Fairtrade Fortnight

University hosts Fair Trade panel discussion fo Fair Trade fortnigt

La Trobe addresses gender gaps

Leadership roles for woman on the University agenda

University achieves 11% energy decrease

First step in Responsible Future as La Trobe achieves reductions

La Trobe releases sustainability report

Responsible Futures: Report puts La Trobe under the microscope

University endorses UN Global Compact

La Trobe commits to confronting social and environmental challenge