Showing posts with label Sustainability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sustainability. Show all posts
Saturday, January 26, 2013
San Francisco on track to become zero-waste city. pbs
San Francisco on track to become zero-waste city.
San Francisco is trying to become the first
city with zero waste. By requiring residents and businesses to separate
compostable items such as food scraps, as well as recyclable items, the
city has already reduced a huge amount of garbage from ending up in
landfills, NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports.
PBS NewsHour
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Game-Changing Breakthrough to Make Snack Packaging More Sustainable
BASF, The Chemical Company, has made a game-changing breakthrough towards sustainable snack packaging that can help companies and communities everywhere get closer to their goal of zero-waste.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Common Metals Can Make Cheap, Sustainable Solar Panels
New solar panels made with more common metals could be cheaper and more sustainable. Image With enough sunlight falling on home roofs to supply at least half of America's electricity, scientists described advances toward the less-expensive solar energy ...
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
Gates Foundation gives big grant for solar toilet research Clean Energy Authority
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His team uses solar energy
delivered through fiber-optic cables to heat and decompose a container
of fecal matter inside a latrine to more than 200 degrees Celsius and
transform it into a charcoal material for reuse in improving
agricultural soil.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Water Sustainability for China and Beyond
Water's fate in China mirrors problems across the world: fouled, pushed far from its natural origins, squandered and exploited.
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International Funders Shift Investments Toward Sustainable Transportation
If you think the United States is doing a bad job shifting toward sustainable transportation, take a look at the developing world.
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Economists Address Environmental Sustainability Issues at Globalization ... Sacramento Bee
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13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Top economists gathered at the Wharton School's Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania April 12-13, 2012 for the second annual Globalization TrendLab 2012 conference entitled, "Sustainability: New ...
f Sustainability Costs You More, You're Doing it Wrong
There is a lot of anecdotal information on what makes a value chain sustainable, but very little data. To change that, we partnered with ASQ, the Institute for Supply Management, and Deloitte, on a multi-year research study to identify proven ...
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Sustainability Gold for the 2012 London Olympics
With the 2012 London Olympics drawn to a close, so starts the task of breaking down parts of the 500-acre Olympic Park that housed the world's finest athletes for the past two weeks
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Sustainable Innovation, Part I
There are those products that have become more sustainable over the past years, but are not thought of as being particularly green or environment-friendly.
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City Cuts Carbon Emissions
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Latest figures show that carbon emissions from council buildings have been reduced by 13% in the last year (51445 tonnes ofCO2 compared with 59071 tonnes in 2011). It is expected that this will place Liverpool in the top 5% of major organisations for
India's power blackout: An opportunity for sustainable energy?
By concentrating on energy efficiency and working closely with their end-users, said Mark Feasel, director of energy solutions business for Schneider Electric, utilities "can communicate the status of their grid in real-time, and tap capacity from ...
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