11 Aug
2015
Smart people, smart nation, smart Singapore
Green Building Materials, Construction & Design | SINGAPORE
Published by : Care 2 Trade
Picture: ST ILLUSTRATION: MANNY FRANCISCO article first published at: http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/smart-people-smart-nation-smart-singapore Carlo Ratti & Matthew Claudel For The Straits Times Cars that drive themselves, trash that is tagged, your waste analysed - two researchers imagine a Singapore 50 years from now, based on research that is already being tested here "In 50 years' time, how do you see the evolution of cities?" the e-mail began.…
10 Aug
2015
12 million people have no cooking arrangements in India
Others | INDIA
Published by : Eco Media Asia
Around 12 million people in India have no proper cooking arrangements. The situation is worse in urban India where around seven per cent of households lack cooking arrangements while in rural India over one per cent of households is deprived of the facility.The facts were revealed by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) report based on the 68th round of survey. Maharashtra (3.8 per cent) and Andhra Pradesh (2.7 per cent) are the top two…
07 Aug
2015
Coal isn’t good for humanity, but renewables aren’t the only answer to energy poverty
Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency | AUSTRALIA
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Jonathan Symons, The Conversation Last week Oxfam released a report, “Powering up against poverty: why renewable energy is the future”, which argued that advances in renewable energy mean there is “no trade-off between improving lives and tackling climate change". Comforting as this message is, it is also fundamentally inaccurate. Given existing technologies, expanding access to electricity almost always increases CO2 emissions. There are real trade-offs between…
06 Aug
2015
Can’t we just remove carbon dioxide from the air to fix climate change? Not yet
Resource Recovery & Environment Management | UNITED STATES
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John Shepherd, University of Southampton If we have put too much CO2 into the air, wouldn’t it make sense to find ways to remove it again? Well, yes: it would. But sadly it isn’t likely to be easy or cheap and, according to new research, it isn’t an adequate “solution” to the problems of climate change. The possible “carbon removal” techniques are very diverse. They include growing trees on land or algae in the sea and capturing and burying some of the carbon…