September 6th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
A new report claims hydrogen could replace coke in 10 to 50% of all steelmaking my the year 2050, given the right carbon pricing. Using hydrogen instead of coke -- a process known as direct reduction -- could lower the carbon emissions from steel mills significantly
March 30th, 2019 | by World Resources Institute
Green infrastructure like healthy forests, wetlands and coral reefs can cheaply and effectively enhance the performance of traditional built, or “gray infrastructure.”
May 14th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
A consortium in Sweden has embarked on an experimental program that could slash carbon emissions from making steel, a development that caught the attention of Bill McKibben.
March 7th, 2018 | by Matthew Klippenstein
Cradle to Cradle made industrial ecology and the circular economy a lot more mainstream than they had previously been. They’re both still niche notions, but without Cradle to Cradle they’d be a lot more obscure. And if you’re interested in sustainability, the book (or at a minimum this summary!) is required reading
February 20th, 2018 | by Giles Parkinson
UK-based billionaire Sanjeev Gupta is looking to buy equipment from and use part of the old Holden factory in South Australia to create an electric vehicle production line. That would be a significant part of remarkable transformation of Australia’s car industry and economy
June 12th, 2017 | by Steve Hanley
The tallest wooden building in the US will be constructed in Portland, Oregon. CLT technology allows buildings to be constructed faster with less waste and with lower carbon emissions than steel or concrete structure.
August 9th, 2015 | by Zachary Shahan
There’s a lot of fluff out there regarding “futuristic” wind turbines. (See here, here, here, here, and here for example.) [&hellip
October 6th, 2014 | by Sandy Dechert
“Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.” That’s the paradox gripping China, the world’s most populous nation. A new [&hellip
November 4th, 2013 | by Guest Contributor
Originally published on The Lenz Blog by Karl-Friedrich Lenz Says this article at Nature Geoscience. Their numbers: If the contribution from [&hellip
August 20th, 2012 | by Joshua S Hill
A Cambridge University engineer is urging the wind power industry to look at the designs for offshore wind turbines [&hellip
November 28th, 2009 | by Susan Kraemer
A wind turbine efficiency breakthrough by Dr Markus Mueller and Dr Alasdair McDonald of the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for [&hellip
