1. Waste Report
(EBD/EBD Newsletter)

"Waste" as a valuable resource. Most EBD waste stays within the district or is sent for re-use or recycling to the Melbourne CBD.  Residents sort their waste in a number of different ...

2. Our Community
(EBD/EBD Newsletter)

Affordable innovative housing models support diversity, change and renewal in the EBD community. The latest ACUR / Melbourne City Council Community Profile reports that EBD residents ...

3. Community Services
(EBD/EBD Newsletter)

Health, culture, resources and services: flexibility and the EBD community. Due to innovative and integrated public health measures, the EBD residential community enjoys above average ...

4. Schools and TAFE
(EBD/EBD Newsletter)

Distributed learning, distributed classrooms: EBD Schools and TAFE EBD is proud to announce that we have almost 1000 children currently in our primary and high schools program. Whilst ...

5. Sustainable New Industry
(EBD/EBD Newsletter)

EBD businesses and the ecoinnovation edge. The path from the incubator to self-sufficient business is getting shorter. Twelve new potential businesses are currently located in ...

6. EBD: Melbourne's Ecological Business District
(EBD/EBD Newsletter)

Live Better, Consume Less: Welcome to EBD. It is important, but it is also fun, to look back over the (short) history of this thriving district. Before 2009, when the idea of the ...

7. Civic Report: Diversity and Resilience
(EBD/EBD Newsletter)

Patchworks of diversity provide resilience in extreme conditions. The extent of unusual (and extreme) weather events over the last decade has surely demonstrated to everyone ...

8. Civic Report: Open Space
(EBD/EBD Newsletter)

Open spaces and public places on the vertical plane: green access in high-density communities. Over the years EBD has challenged conventional notions of open space within a city. ...

9. Civic Report: Slow Consumption
(EBD/EBD Newsletter)

Super Low Consumption: increasing the value and life of resources through share systems. Looking back at the development of EBD it is important to recognise that the community’s approach ...

10. Civic Report: A Highly Productive Place
(EBD/EBD Newsletter)

Knowledge, resources and people diffuse across boundaries to create connections between the EBD and the greater City of Melbourne. EBD is a highly productive and generative force ...

11. ACUR: Australian Centre for Urban Resilience
(EBD/EBD Newsletter)

A collective knowledge hub for the EBD community's innovation, research and experimentation. Every district of Melbourne should have an ACUR!  In EBD, the centre has transformed ...

12. Water Report
(EBD/EBD Newsletter)

Water is once again visible and integral to the life of the district. Over the last years the district has often been referred to as “lush”, which is not a common descriptor for a ...

13. Energy Report
(EBD/EBD Newsletter)

Energy harvesting technology is constantly trialled and monitored across the EBD. We now produce more energy (electricity and bio-gas) than we consume, through our varied technologies ...

14. Mobility Report
(EBD/EBD Newsletter)

Slow, pedestrian-paced transport is used throughout the EBD.  Faster modes connect at transit hubs around the edges of the site. At the time of the initial development of EBD, more ...

15. Food Production
(EBD/EBD Newsletter)

Food production: part of EBD's built environment. Many Melburnians think of food when they think of EBD.  As a response to the global food crisis and other climate change pressures ...

16. The EBD Newsletter
(EBD/The EBD Site)

Live Better, Consume Less: the EBD Newsletter. The EBD Newsletter is a compilation of the ideas, stories, persona diaries and visions that came out of the EBD Design Workshop - otherwise ...