Tag: cost-effective

Vertical Gardens: Researchers Determine Efficacy of Cheaper Cooling Method

Hot summers can be expensive, with air conditioners and fans driving up household electricity costs; however, researchers from the University of South Australia (UniSA) have identified a scientifically valid and inexpensive cooling method humans have known about for nearly a century. In a study from the UniSA, living walls or vertical gardens—walls that are entirely covered with…


Australian Experts Push for Investment in Skin Cancer Prevention

Investing in skin cancer prevention in Australia could both save lives and significantly reduce the nation’s $2 billion (approx US$1.45 billion) a year in treatment costs, experts say. In a new health economics paper published on Dec. 22 in Public Health Research & Practice, a peer-reviewed journal of the Sax Institute, the authors noted the…