Sustainability
Collapse or ‘megaefficiency’? Five visions for 2050
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Thirsty cities grapple with smart meters, dumb pipes
Just as smart electricity meters are touted as a way to better control energy consumption and waste, smart water meters promise to help cities
Efficiency or sustainability? Devil’s in the details
There are lots of ways to measure how efficient a thing or process is: miles per gallon, GDP per barrel of oil, lumens per
Scientists: Smart tech, not-so-smart decisions threaten civilization
We have the technology we need to resolve the world’s most pressing environmental and sustainability problems. Unfortunately, we don’t have the human smarts to
Some hear ‘sustainability’ … will others hear ‘class warfare’?
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China ‘dumping’ low-cost solar cells on market? US says ‘yes’
Have China’s solar cell makers been “dumping” their products on the US market
The 10 most water-stressed countries in the world
From space, our planet might look like a “big blue marble” rich with
Top resources for the energy-efficient office
Go online and do a search for “energy-efficient office” and you’ll get results
Energy companies eye UK’s billion-pound bet on carbon capture
Several leading energy companies are expressing interest in working
How many smart meters are there in the US?
It hasn’t always been smooth sailing — still isn’t,
