Hattie Hartman’s sustainability blog: best practice, projects and products
China’s growing renewables industry has been a lot in the news recently. Jonathan Porritt of Forum for the Future, who introduced the RIBA Ashden debate last week, is just back from Shanghai where he has been researching a series for the BBC.
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Guest Blogger Lynne Sullivan, Sustainable by Design
The RIBA and other professional institutions are considering what they can usefully contribute in the run up to the UN climate talks in Copenhagen in December 2009. Measures set out in ‘The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan’ issued recently by the Department for Energy and Climate Change, amount to [...]
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On Wednesday Professor James Woudhuysen gave his third lecture as part of YRM’s ‘Ten Talks’ series.The talk was titled ‘The future of Nuclear Power and Renewables’ and was typically provocative (an upcoming talk is ‘the future of sex’). If you aren’t familiar with ‘futurologist’ Wouduysen have a look at his website where you’ll find acerbic [...]
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Interesting article in today’s FT about increased demand and manufacturing for solar technologies in China and its impact on the European market, especially Germany.
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Wired.com’s review of last year’s top ten green technologies puts CO2 capturing cement production as number one, citing it as a breakthrough with ramifications on a par with the scale of climate change itself. Instead of emitting 1 ton of C02 per ton of cement, this new process by California-based company Calera sequesters half a [...]
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