Sustainability

Climate Change, News & Comments, Renewables, Smart cities, Sustainability May 19, 2020

A home that will keep you warm and cool the planet

A home that will keep you warm and cool the planet “… everything from mining the materials for the cement to chopping down the trees…

Climate Change, Policy & Strategy, Renewables, Smart cities, Sustainability

Race to 100% Clean

Climate Change, News & Comments, Smart cities, Sustainability

Carbon Disclosure Project revealed top 105 global cities for climate action

Articles Smart cities

Mexico City is proposing to build one of the world’s largest urban parks. Will it serve as a climate adaptation example for other cities?

An architect and officials are hoping that a huge park in Mexico City can restore the water systems of the region and serve as a model for others around the world. Walking along the edge of a seasonally dry lakebed…

Articles Climate Change Policy & Strategy

Facing undeniable reality of Climate change, deniers now argue it’s not that bad

Climate change denialism has a long history. Possibly the earliest clear example dates back to October 1959, when a researcher working for none other than Royal Dutch Shell published an article in The New Scientist. Acknowledging that an “immense” quantity…

Articles Climate Change

Analysis: Coronavirus has temporarily reduced China’s CO2 emissions by a quarter

Electricity demand and industrial output remain far below their usual levels across a range of indicators, many of which are at their lowest two-week average in several years. These include: • Coal consumption at power plants was down 36% •…

Articles Biofuels Green Tech

Green ammonia could slash emissions from farming – and power ships of the future

For the past 100 years, a simple molecule has had an immensely positive impact on our world. Ammonia, which comprises three hydrogen atoms bonded to a single nitrogen atom, is widely used to make the fertilisers enable us to produce…

Articles Climate Change Renewables

Electrifying buildings and cars can rein in electric rates

Electricity prices stand to rise in California because of wildfire costs—but converting more of the state’s buildings and vehicles to electricity generated from low-cost renewable resources could help limit these increases and help keep electrical energy affordable. This conclusion comes…

Articles Smart cities Sustainability

Why are climate-conscious cities often the least affordable?

Cities can do a lot to stop climate change. They can fill their streets with electric buses, pass strict efficiency rules for its buildings, and switch to powering the place with clean energy. But there’s a problem that mayors rarely…

Articles Policy & Strategy

Change before we have to

This time it is not business as usual. Empty streets, no people, no cars, clear blue skies, producing less, consuming less, reinventing habits, schedule and priorities. It looks like fiction, but it is real. And global. What happens next door…

Articles CCS Policy & Strategy

Northern lights – send us your CO2

In March, a consortium of oil giants Equinor, Shell, and Total finished drilling an exploratory well off the coast of Norway. This time not searching for oil or gas, but in the hope of sending CO2 to be permanently stored…

Articles Climate Change Sustainability

Change diet, add lentils first

Climate change must be stopped before it stops us! How can we do this? We must evolve from a fossil-fuel driven economy to a more sustainable one. Many industries burn vast amounts of fossil fuels. The result is an increase…

Articles Smart cities

Sustainable urban planning makes smarter cities

The world is moving away from traditional energy sources towards more efficient and smarter energy systems. The Smart City concept is not new anymore, and it’s slowly gaining traction. The ‘smart’ concept has evolved from technology-driven progress towards social values.…