Over the last 3 years Deacon University’s Built Environment Research Group conducted a 3 year survey and found that the built environment demands 40-50% of global energy, consumes 40% of non-renewable resources, generates 40% of landfill waste and uses 30% [...]
Scanning the newswires this morning and here’s an interesting analysis piece out of reuters, London.
Essentially it examines whether or not a carbon price through an emissions scheme is actually going to achieve the required changes in carbon use quickly enough.
Here’s some excerpts:
“Governments are relying way too much on the price of carbon to deliver everything,” [...]
Yesturday I had the pleasure of being present when Al Gore opened the new FEX-SIM sustainability and cleantech stock exchange in Sydney. Here’s a wrap up.
The exchange is the creation of Brian Price, whom I interviewed recently on the cleantech show during which we discussed the FEX-SIM in detail. You can listed to the [...]
Sensor developments, embedded systems, wireless communications and internet connectivity in recent years have fostered the growth of a gamut of remote and distributed sensor and control technology. In the cleantech sector we see applications of this in water management, smart energy grids, [...]
According to Global Wind Energy Council figures 2006 recorded an increase of installed capacity of 15,197 MW, taking the total installed wind energy capacity to 74,223 MW.
Key to the continued development of wind resources around the world is the accurate assessment, modelling [...]
Gil Friend’s posted this interesting discussion regarding the impact of the coal industry and an article in Architecture 2030 . Have a read through and for those Australian’s in the Audience think about the impact of our policy to push a clean coal future. Now the article doesn’t even go into detail of the [...]
In February 2007, Richard Branson and Al Gore announced a new global science and technology prize - The Virgin Earth challenge - whereby an individual or group can demonstrate a solution that can remove at least 1 billion tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide [...]
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