IN his final days as Perth’s lord mayor last week, Dr Peter Nattrass demonstrated the city’s commitment to offsetting carbon emissions by sending council staff out to count trees. The "Tree Audit" is expected to result in the planting of as many as 2,000

TECHNOLOGY Park-based Scanalyse Pty Ltd has won WA’s Inventor of the Year award for its 3D laser scanning technology, MillMapper. The technology, which also won the ‘ready for market’ category, measures internal wear in grinding mills used by the mining industry.