1. Rowville Recycling
(Mobility: City of Short Distances Studios/Systems & Services)

... the supermarket.  The efficiency of the delivery system reduces the need for people to drive to the supermarket, with an entire neighbourhood's groceries delivered by one truck.  ...

2. Localised Solutions Conference
(Distributed Systems/ Localised Solutions Conference )

...  cZGZFtGPOxA ROB CATCHLOVE - Creating Liveable Cities Workshop xTus9Vwbdhk PAUL MURFITT - Local energy solutions: Modelling and communication DgEpqI8p_OE MICHAELA LANG - Energy Efficiency and ...

3. Localised Solutions: VEIL conference
(News/General)

... increase efficiency, build resilience and strengthen local economies. This ‘distributed’ systems model is over-turning old ideas of services and is re-shaping our image of the future. With communities ...

4. Lady Bug
(EBD Design Studios/ZeroCar)

Flexibility, adaptability and efficiency. A new design for a transport system running on a single train line. The units are designed for small groups of people, primarily standing, ...

5. Visible Water Tanks
(EBD Design Studios/Visual Communications)

... of water efficiency and water-saving technologies into the daily life of the EBD community. Designer: Tiffany Chou Domain: Visual Communication Design Studio: EBD Visual Communication Studio ...

6. HEXware
(EBD Design Studios/HabItat)

Straight sides for compact spaces. HEXware is a modular induction cooktop which comes with its own cookware.  The set consists of a pot (with a removable partition), a pan, and ...

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

... (following last year’s ‘blitz’ on renewable energy and energy efficiency) and there are 12 visiting professors and scientists from China, India, Columbia, USA, Japan, Germany and the Netherlands (bringing ...

8. Energy Report
(EBD/EBD Newsletter)

... cells have been replaced with higher efficiency ones. Recent breakthroughs in solar technology will significantly boost the efficiency of these system and allow energy to be collected from more unconventional ...

9. Ursula Tischner - Eco-Design
(Videos/Eco-Innovation Seminars)

... Design for the Environment, Sustainable Design of Products and Services in Theory and in Practice, Design for Dematerialisation/Eco-efficiency, Eco-efficient Concepts, Sustainable System Innovation, Consumer ...

10. CoCaring Networked Neighbourhood
(2007-08/Visualising Networked Neighbourhoods)

... systems for efficiency in future neighbourhoods would include multi-purpose buildings.  The gardens insulate the houses and communal spaces as well as providing food and employment for the community.  ...

11. Melbourne 2032: Looking back over the last 25 years
(Visions/Glimpses)

...  5.    Load Limiting - a way of sharing In 2010, as governments tried to stimulate investment in resource efficiency (in water and energy, for example) and limit peak-loads in demand (for example ...

12. Simulating Selection
(2007-08/Consuming 2032)

How might shopping centres be reconfigured / redesigned to increase efficiency and reduce impulse-buying? In a sustainable future, products will still need to be purchased, but consumption ...

13. P2P Vehicle Concept: "Qva"
(2007-08/Industrial Design)

... response its efficiency lies in quantity.  The vehicles exist in a shared network that is available to cardholders.  They are small, and fold up to fit in lifts or stack at the parking stations, for example ...

14. Future Primitive: 3007 Tent
(2007-08/3007)

... at least as much as a product.  It is a structure that can be shared and used at all times –  its efficiency increases through multiple layers of use.  Its “emergency” status removes perceptions of ownership, ...

15. The Urban Center - living in a vertical community
(Visions/Glimpses)

... They receive incentives for water and energy efficiency and this has had interesting consequences. The Laundromat in Violet’s building offers a staggered pricing system with discounted prices to those ...

16. WindVEIL
(Visions/PPW)

WindVEIL is a development project and is currently explored. More information will be posted at the prototype stage. WindVEIL is a new ‘parasitic’ product, providing cheap but low efficiency energy for ...

17. EcoLab - a jump towards sustainability (part 1 and 2)
(Publications/Visioning)

A background briefing paper of the development of VEIL and its innovation process. Author: Chris Ryan. 2002. (Reprinted from the MIT Journal of Industrial Ecology) "The collapse of the “ecoefficiency ...

18. PRESS RELEASE: The future of food security begins at home
(VEIL/VEIL in the media)

... has become patently clear is that major innovations – well beyond efficiency improvements in existing food production – are needed, and soon, if we are to have good food to feed all Victorians and to meet ...

19. Ursula Tischner: How to harness creativity for a sustainable future
(News/General)

... for more than 4 years at the German Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, where she was involved in developing concepts such as eco-efficiency, MIPS, Factor 4 and Factor 10, Ecodesign, ...