The Australian: Gavin Gilchrist: It's too little, too late, PM [June 16, 2004]

Australians are growing anxious and it's worth noting that. The really interesting bit comes at the end:

"You only have to look around our cities at night to see how much energy we waste. And that's just the waste you can see. There are all sorts of reasons we don't build our factories, office buildings, shopping centres and houses so they are highly efficient in the way they consume energy. That must change. No advanced nation should be planning its energy and environmental future without an aggressive energy efficiency strategy."



It's all those reasons why not that need tackling. most of them are about pricing and tax etc. SOmetimes it's training architects to see that avoiding waste makes for better buildings and often cheaper buildings to run where extra costs in building can be offset by lower costs for things like air conditioning or heating or lighting because the design makes the most of what is alread on offer ...