waste-to-energy
By the end of next year, the Canadian city of Edmonton could be home to an energy plant like no other: the world’s first industrial-scale municipal facility to take solid waste and convert it into liquid biofuels. The $75 million (US) plant, being built by Canada-based Enerkem (pdf), is
cleantech
Cleantech companies sell technology products and services that solve environmental problems, ranging from traffic monitoring solutions to bioplastics made from sewage sludge to new solar cell technology. These exciting new products and solutions offer the promise of creating a more sustainable world, while transforming the global economy. Climate change, resource
That deafening silence you hear? It’s all the sustainability-aware media, CEOs and investors who — in seeking to maintain the high ground, preserve their nice images and focus on the positive — are losing to a well financed and increasingly emboldened mob of anti-green bullies setting the tone for our future.
water
It’s an oxymoron, but not an impossible one: “Dry water.” In fact, the powdery version of Earth’s most abundant liquid could potentially hold the key to reversing global warming, harnessing natural gas energy and driving new, more energy-efficient ways to produce food ingredients, medicines and other consumer products.
electric cars
The future of transport might lie with electric cars, but US consumers aren’t quite ready yet to lead the charge. Seventy-eight per cent of adults surveyed online by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) see the greatest advantage of electric cars being the ability to operate without the need for
climate
For a new website designed to engage the public on all things meteorological, the soon-to-launch theWeather Club is arriving at an especially opportune time, says Dr. Liz Bentley, head of communications for the Royal Meteorological Society and the new club’s founder. With this year’s late spring expected to
green economy
For the Republican side of the aisle and a good portion of the US public, the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has always been a tough sell. Part of the challenge, after all, is the impossibility of proving how much worse things might have been if
petroleum
Now you see it, now you don’t: Less than one week after reporting a 22-mile-long, mile-wide plume of hydrocarbons deep underwater in the Gulf of Mexico, researchers now say they can’t find a trace of it. The plume, a remnant of the months-long Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, has
The University of Salford’s campus in Greater Manchester will soon be home to a house like no other in the world: a test abode built entirely within a larger, surrounding building. What’s the point of the structure-within-a-structure project? To give researchers across multiple disciplines a way to study
carbon dioxide
“Green curtains” of outdoor vines can not only shade windows and keep interiors from growing too hot, but can produce food for the occupants or workers inside the buildings they grow on. That’s exactly what “curtains” of goya and morning glory are doing for 20 manufacturing and office buildings
microgeneration
You’re slowly paying off a mortgage on your new home and rumour has it you could make a few pennies by fitting it with new devices to generate clean energy. You look into it, but no one seems to be able to tell you just how much that solar
A tiny red car that is also the most fuel-efficient vehicle in Sweden is on its way to the US to go on display at the Swedish Embassy in Washington, DC. The Baldos II, designed and built by engineering students at the Luleå University of Technology, demonstrated a mileage of
