Sustainability Now

About Us

Sustainability is a principle that aims to ensure that the needs of the present are met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Our planet has finite resources and the developed world is depleting those resources at unprecedented rates. Our level of consumption is also generating large quantities of greenhouse gases, which contribute to global climate change – arguably the biggest threat to our future.

Sustainability Now has been specialising in energy efficiency for strata since 2009 and, in that time, we have worked with over 300 buildings to undertake energy and water audits or implement energy and water efficiency upgrades. We are a key auditor partner in the City of Sydney Smart Green Apartments, among others,

Our aim at Sustainability Now is to help you meet your  sustainability goals and reduce your impact on the environment through triple-bottom-line solutions that are:

  • Financially achievable
  • Ecologically sustainable
  • Ethically sound

Ethan Burns was awarded a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering with First Class Honours from Griffith University in Brisbane in 1999. Since then he has been delivering sustainability solutions in challenging environments both in Australia and internationally in the electricity generation, transmission and distribution industries, local government, environmental health and building standards arenas.

Ethan has been specialising in energy efficiency for residential strata since 2009 and is considered an expert in this field. He assisted the New South Wales government develop a new National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) assessment tool and assessor training packages for residential strata buildings and was one of the first accredited assessors for this program.

Ethan Burns