Business people are hoping for a positive outcome of the COP17 United Nations climate change conference in Durban. The objective of the conference is to set carbon emission reduction targets, while trying not to impede economic growth and development. South Africa is committed to reducing national emissions to 34 % by 2020. COP 17 conference runs [...]
Tata Steel has said it is investing around £10m in a trio of Welsh research projects working to commercialise emerging low carbon building technologies, such as paint on solar cells that could turn homes, offices and factories into mini power stations. Tata yesterday cut the ribbon on the £6.5m Sustainable Building Envelope Centre at Shotton [...]
Berlin, Germany – The nuclear power plant crisis unfolding in Japan after the massive earthquake has already caused political fallout in Germany and could usher in a new era of renewable energy in Europe’s largest economy. On Tuesday Germany became the first European country to shut nuclear plants in the wake of the crisis in [...]
SOUTH Africa has recognised the need to have energy security through diversity but still needs the private sector’s support to make this possible, Deputy Minister of Energy Barbara Thompson said yesterday. Thompson was addressing hundreds of delegates at the Energy Indaba held at the Sandton Convention Centre. She said policy and the regulatory framework developed [...]
Who’s missing from the lede of this Reuters story? It begins: “Brazil, China and India are expected to fuel global investments in clean energy in 2011 that are expected to reach $240 billion, the head of a United Nation’s green economy initiative said on Wednesday.” Three of the world’s fastest-growing nations are doubling down on [...]
NAIROBI, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) — Ministers of environment from more than 100 countries began a week-long meeting in Nairobi, Kenya on Monday to discuss ways of adopting a green economy to improve capital base and ecosystem services. The ministers attending the 26th UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum also said governments have a key role [...]
New York City is the only city in the US that never sleeps. It is also one city that often smells, especially in the summer. One reason is the city’s aging sewage system, to which the city’s 8 million residents contribute 1.3 billion gallons of wastewater daily. All that wastewater goes through several processes until [...]
When a rural Saskatchewan town needed a population boost, they decided to offer prospective residents half-acre building lots for $1. But there was a catch: the newcomers would need to build a sustainable community from scratch and live off the grid. CBC’s The Passionate Eye followed the residents’ first year in the eco-village in Craik, [...]
