by Karen | Jun 26, 2022 | GreenStar, Transport
I’m a member of the Yarra Active Transport Advisory Committee and we’ve recently provided advice on the draft Transport Strategy. Then my mother had her bike stolen from the “secure” bicycle parking at her apartment building and my son...
by Karen | Jun 21, 2019 | GreenStar, Transport
This morning I went to a site visit at the new Country Road store in Chadstone. I’m working on a volume certification process and the store is the first one targeting a 5 star Green Star Interiors. When I set up the meeting, I worked out that I could get there...
by Karen | Jun 7, 2018 | GreenStar
Each time I get a new Green Star project I look at the climate adaptation credit and think about doing it myself. How hard could it be? The Green Star submission guideline has a good instructions on what’s required and all the reference documents are pretty...
by Karen | Feb 22, 2018 | accountability, GreenStar
This morning I read an article in The Conversation that included the word “Green Star” (including the quotes!) It’s badly written AND wrong and I made a comment that I realised would be worth keeping here: Conflating what’s happening in the...
by Karen | Sep 8, 2015 | GreenStar, Materials
On Friday I received a frantic call from the head contractor, “the site is buried in waste and we can’t find a waste collection service that can comply with the Green Star requirements”. The new Green Star tools (Interiors PILOT, Interiors V1 and...
by Karen | Aug 10, 2015 | GreenStar
We’ve got approval to use the Contractor Education innovation credit for the Kathmandu project and I’m working on it this morning. To get the credit we need to; Deliver training on the core concepts of global warming, climate change and the health impacts...
