Innovation

Green Tech, Innovation, Renewables September 19, 2022

Germany pushes joint effort to become climate-neutral aviation ‘pioneer’

The German government has launched a new push to make the country an international leader in sustainable aviation. “With a joint effort by industry, science,…

Climate Change, Nature & Environment, Smart cities

How cities can fight climate change

Green Tech, Power to X, Renewables

Here comes one of the world’s first solar-powered vehicles

Green Tech, Renewables, Smart cities

German govt welcomes new EU renewables & efficiency targets but struggles with 2035 car ban

Innovation

Investors are making sustainable housing a reality

As people worldwide adopt increasingly eco-conscious practices, the demand for sustainable goods and services increases. Many of us seek to shrink our carbon footprints using…

Green Tech March 17, 2022

Building just and prosperous zero-carbon regions

Australian and international research highlights key success factors for accelerating just and well-managed regional energy transitions An increasingly large majority of Australians – apparently even…

Green Tech December 28, 2021

How we measure energy efficiency in homes isn’t working

If you’ve ever rented or bought a house, you’ve probably come across energy performance certificates (EPCs). These certificates, with their brightly coloured bar charts, adorn…

News & Comments, Smart cities December 14, 2021

Cooler, Cleaner Megacities, One Rooftop Garden at a Time

Growing greens can be a powerful tool for change. The view of Cairo from the air is one of concrete buildings and tangled overpasses stretching as…

News & Comments, Smart cities November 30, 2021

No renovation wave in sight across EU recovery plans in central and eastern Europe

In the national recovery and resilience plans, energy efficiency and building renovations can play a key role for Member States to achieve the required target…

News & Comments, Smart cities November 16, 2021

Being smart about smart cities: A governance roadmap for digital technologies

Governance is emerging as a serious consideration when it comes to the use of advanced digital technologies to drive smart city objectives. Cities looking to…

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Articles Policy & Strategy

Supreme Coup

The intention was to tell the story of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, a British journalist and an Indigenous expert. Both were killed last June in the Amazonas. A beautiful corner of Brazil turned into an oasis for illegal gold…

Articles Wind

Direct Heating and Cooling using windmills

Everyone is familiar with huge wind turbines producing electricity for the electricity grid. Windmills much more modest in size can also contribute to direct heating or cooling of buildings, thereby replacing burnt fuels for heating and electricity consumed for air…

Articles Climate Change Policy & Strategy

Is philanthropy (really) good for climate and democracy?

The American multibillionaires Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg have recently published books about how to fight climate change. It is always commendable when people seek to make the world a better place. There are both good qualities and bad aspects…

Articles Renewables

The not-so-distant future of energy storage

The war in Ukraine put some European countries in front of a strategic problem: how to cut ties with Russia and quickly find a reliable energy alternative? The obvious choice should be to invest immediately and massively in renewable, safe, clean,…

Articles Last Exit

Shoreham

The plant that never was. But no one envisaged that in 1965 when Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO) President John J. Tuohy announced plans for the first commercial nuclear power plant on Long Island. Initially, that proposal faced no or…

Articles Fossil Fuels Innovation

Fossil Fuels Drive Increase in Atmospheric Helium

After decades of uncertainty, scientists have finally shown that fossil fuel extraction has flooded the atmosphere with 4He. The release of carbon dioxide (CO2) during the extraction and burning of fossil fuels has contributed to major changes in Earth’s atmosphere…

Articles Nature & Environment

Combining Old and New: Aquaponics Opens the Door to Indigenous Food Security

All across the United States, Indigenous peoples suffer higher rates of mortality than other ethnic groups, largely due to poorer diets and other colonial stressors that have completely altered their traditional lifeways. One nonprofit organization in Hawai‘i, Malama Waimānalo, is…

Advanced Tech Articles

Meet Zacua, Mexico’s first electric car brand

The nascent brand has sold its first 100 compact electric vehicles, and is helping to lay the groundwork for the EV industry in Mexico, says CEO Nazareth Black Zacua, Mexico’s first electric car brand, started in 2017, over twenty years…

Articles Nature & Environment

Protecting biodiversity – and making it accessible – has paid off for Costa Rica

After two years of pandemic lockdowns and border closures, global travel appears to be rebounding in much of the world in 2022. Wilderness is a big tourist attraction – but do countries that protect their natural environments earn a payoff…

Articles Climate Change

I Helped Pen the UN Climate Report. Here’s Why It Gives Me Hope.

On April 4, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the final installment of its Sixth Assessment Report, an epic synthesis of science exploring the causes and consequences of climate change. This latest document focused on the causes…

The Lost Bayou: Grand Bayou

Grand Bayou, LA. At one time, it was a lively community of close-knit families, until they were forced to leave. ©2020. Garde Voir Ci magazine. Nicholls State University Department of Mass Communication.

World Rainforest Day

Rainforests cover only 2 percent of the planet’s surface area but are responsible for more than 25% of all Western medicine and house more than 50% of the world’s plant and animal species.