Topic: Melbourne

Melbourne's Nutty Theater Complex Racks up Awards

An instantly recognizable theater complex in Melbourne wins a citation as the state's best new building.READ»

Melbourne Re-brands Itself With a $200,000 Logo--Will It Work?

Landor, the branding giant, takes aim at the city's brand--reflecting its ambitions to play on a larger stage.READ»

An Attack on a Bus II

In a Sound Off post in response to "Driving in the Valley of the Shadow of Death," Melbourne, Australia, Company of Friends coordinator Peter Tunjic writes: The Melbourne, Australia, Company of Friends group held a forum last night ...READ»

Joint GEWEX-iLeaps Conferences on Climate Change

What’s better than one dry academic conference? If you said “two dry academic conferences,” do read on. iLeaps (also known as the Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Study) and GEWEX (the Global Energy and Water Cycle ...READ»

Paris Fashion Week

The French capital's prêt-à-porter week may be a magnet for snooty designers and buyers with wallets the size of Vuitton trunks. But cities with less history as hubs of couture have tried lately to grab some glamour by staging ...READ»

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Alcohol Is Not The Enemy

Today is Saturday. Melbourne, Australia today is expecting a top temperature of 30 degrees Celsius (approximately 90 degrees Fahrenheit). Hot thirsty weather! We are right in the middle of the very popular Melbourne ...READ»

Alcohol Is Not The Enemy

Today is Saturday. Melbourne, Australia today is expecting a top temperature of 30 degrees Celsius (approximately 90 degrees Fahrenheit). Hot thirsty weather! We are right in the middle of the very popular Melbourne ...READ»

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Tech Watch: Australian Companies Fund Electric Vehicle Grid

Better Place, a US firm that builds plug-in stations for electric cars, has just landed a $667 million USD deal to build charging networks in Australia’s three largest cities. Like smaller-scale Better Place deals already underway in Denmark and Israel, the Australian charging network will allow battery-powered and hybrid car-owners to charge their vehicles at thousands of locations, or have their vehicles batteries swapped out for faster fill-ups. READ»

3D Breakthrough Changes How We Meet, Share, Buy & Play

He was in Bangalore and his co-presenters were in San Jose, yet Cisco’s CEO appeared live - on thesame stage. How? By using a breathtaking 3D holographic-like technology.They tout it as, “the world’s first real time virtual ...READ»

Attitude Adjustment

Seeing yourself as the rest of the world does.READ»

Infographic of the Day: Ballooning Population Maps

Geography seen through the filter of population density. READ»

The Designer-Small Biz Connection

If you want your business to be noticed, design is everything. However, a lot of startups and small businesses often don’t have the budget for an in-house design department. In an effort to facilitate the connection between ...READ»

Feedback

The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies / Our March cover story -- and particularly our choice of Google as the most innovative company of the year -- got a heated reception. There were complaints ("Your latest issue reads like a ...READ»

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Work/Life: It's Fast, but is it Liveable?

I've just returned from bouncing around like an email peddling Viagra .... NY, Philly, Texas, Eugene, Seattle and finally IOWA, where I rode across the state with 10,000 others on RAGBRAI. Including Lance, who, at all times, seemed ...READ»

Feedback

Savior or Sellout? Some of Adam Werbach's old friends in the environmental movement may not be talking to him since he signed on with Wal-Mart, but Fast Company readers had plenty to say about September's cover story. Responses ...READ»

Advertising's British Invaders Take Root

When we last visited alt ad agency Naked Communications and asked, "Is Mad. Ave. Ready to Go Naked?" (October 2005), we saw it preparing to bring its brash-Brit brand of problem-solving solutions to New York. Since its January 2006 ...READ»

SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESSES HAM STRUNG ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Australia’s small and medium businesses lack leadership on environmental issues, leaving many stranded and unable to make changes that will reduce their carbon footprint and boost their bottom lines, a new survey has revealed.READ»

On the Waterfront

An IT analyst pursues a different calling after the tsunami hits his native Sri Lanka.READ»

SMEs FINDING SUSTAINABILITY BENEFITS OUTWEIGH THE COST

Half of all Australian Small and Medium Enterprises are willing to take action to become more sustainable even if it has a negative impact on their financial performance in the short term. This 51% equates to 153,000 businesses nationally. Leaders cited that aside from cost, a lack of information, distrust of sustainability claims and the availability of practical choices were the major barriers.READ»

The reasons of choosing Golf Club Wedding Venues

Many golf clubs are now specially designed to hold events such as weddings and come equipped with gorgeous function suites, on site catering, and complete wedding packages for you to choose from. Some clubs are licensed to hold civil ...READ»

Building a Sustainable Design Community

Valerie Casey of Ideo is rallying the creative community to the Designers Accord, her version of a Kyoto treaty for designers -- and her peers are signing on in droves. Now comes the hard part.READ»

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Add Your Voice

Last week, Fast Company readers from as far away as Australia, Malaysia, and Singapore expressed their revulsion and offered their support. Read their thoughts and then add your own reflections and suggestions.READ»

Why We'll Take Longer Baths in the Future

Prediction is a dangerous game -- the future is never a straight linear extrapolation from the present. Unexpected innovations and events will conspire to trip up the best-laid plans -- but it's better than not thinking about the future at all. Futurist Richard Watson explores the future and innovation in this, the first chapter of his latest book Future Files: A History of the Next 50 Years.READ»