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Sustainable Development with Leila C. Janah, CEO of Samasource - 0 views

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    As part of our sustainable development interview series, Leila Chirayath Janah, CEO of Samasource was kind enough to share some of her thoughts with us today. A big thank you to Leila and her team for taking the time out of their busy schedules... 1. Could you briefly explain your role and responsibilities within the organization?
Alex Parker

The 10 biggest clean energy developments of 2013 - 2 views

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    The year 2013 witnessed some significant milestones in renewable power generation and transmission, inculding the opening of some of the world's biggest wind, solar and bio-gasification plants. Power-technology.com picks the ten biggest clean energy developments from 2013.
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    The year 2013 witnessed some significant milestones in renewable power generation and transmission, inculding the opening of some of the world's biggest wind, solar and bio-gasification plants. Power-technology.com picks the ten biggest clean energy developments from 2013. The London Array, the world's biggest offshore wind farm, at 630MW installed capacity was opened in July 2013.
Jack Travis

Read about Renewable Energy Development in Tumblr - 0 views

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    The future energy development is looking for the renewable energy generation from various sources..
Alex Parker

University of Toronto researchers develop cheaper, lighter solar cells - 1 views

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    The University of Toronto Edward S Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering researchers in Canada have developed and demonstrated a new class of solar-sensitive nanoparticle.
Alex Parker

Inspiring development - BP's UK Upstream Learning Centre opens - 1 views

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    BP has opened its first-ever UK centre dedicated to training and development via life-size simulators, augmented reality and 3D visualization capability. Offshore-Technology's Heidi Vella was invited to the centre to experience the centre first-hand. In July, BP opened the doors to its shiny-new Upstream Learning Centre built on spare land at its International Centre for Business and Technology (ICBT) in Sunbury-on-Thames.
Alex Parker

The UK - a role to play in developing clean African energy? - 1 views

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    While sub-Saharan Africa has seen robust economic growth, access to electricity is lagging behind. Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna has called on British industry to support the development of renewable energy in Africa, highlighting the economic value of establishing a firm base in the continent.
Alex Parker

Urine-tricity - golden power from human waste - 0 views

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    Scientists in the UK, with backing from Bill Gates, are hoping to power homes in developing countries with human urine using microbial fuel cells. The concept could provide a solution to two human necessities - sanitation and energy - but is it really a viable or even practical solution for the developing world?
Felix Gryffeth

Cisco Teaches Routers to Act Like Servers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Cisco Systems held a contest to tempt software developers into creating novel applications for its routers. And a technology upgrade could allow the routers to take on even more tasks currently handled by separate servers.
Felix Gryffeth

Is clean tech China's moon shot? | Green Tech - CNET News - 0 views

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    The global race to develop clean tech is shaping up to be a contest between Chinese-style capitalism and the U.S. and Europe's more market-oriented approach. Read this blog post by Reuters on Green Tech.
3BL Media

Sustainable Development with Nigel Waller from Movirtu - 1 views

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    As part of our ongoing interview series, Nigel Waller, CEO of Movirtu, shares his thoughts on applying technology and mobile solutions to help those people at the "base of the pyramid" (BoP).
3BL Media

Corporations needs a Green Sustainable Officer - 0 views

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    New legislation has just passed by Barack Obama that requires every business in the U.S. to have a Sustainability Officer or a Green Officer. One of the jobs these Green Officers is to develop a sustainability performance plans. Also, businesses must create a committee on federal sustainability. Green Officer Training can help companies meet the demands of this new executive order.
Felix Gryffeth

Swarms of tiny robots to monitor the oceans | csmonitor.com - 0 views

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    Scientists want to learn much more aobut the ocean than they currently know. So they're developing tiny robots to go underwater and observe.
Alex Parker

Troubled waters - new developments in oil spill cleanup technology - 1 views

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    We round up the most innovative oil spill recovery technologies including a chemically modified nanocellulose sponge from Switzerland's Empa, new research into bacteria from the University of East Anglia, and other technological and theoretical breakthroughs. Rod James investigates.
Alex Parker

Record-breaking solar plane inspires cleantech development - 1 views

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    A plane powered entirely by the sun is to embark on a 35,000km journey around the world in 2015. If successful, it will see the established boundaries of solar power stretched to an unprecedented level, potentially inspiring cleantech innovation across the globe.
Alex Parker

Power surge: developing the next generation of nuclear batteries - 1 views

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    Researchers in the US are using pioneering technology to create long-lasting, more efficient nuclear batteries. We talk to Patrick J Pinhero, Alan K Wertsching and Jae Wan Kwon of the University of Missouri about pushing the boundaries of betavoltaic electricity generation. The University of Missouri (MU) is pushing boundaries in betavoltaic electricity generation.
Alex Parker

Nuclear development in Saudi Arabia: should the US back it? - 1 views

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    The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's long-held ambitions for civil nuclear power have hit the headlines again, partly due to the Trump administration's support. If the kingdom is to succeed, it first has to accept its international obligations, including IAEA monitoring.
Arabica Robusta

Embedding Evidence on Conservation Interventions Within a Context of Multilevel Governa... - 0 views

  • The lack of availability of larger-scale evidence can thus lead to an unfortunate mismatch in knowledge of the relative effects of local-scale interventions versus regional-scale ecological processes, and thus also to incomplete knowledge about where local conservation interventions would be most effective.
  • Integrating specific intervention-guided conservation with a deeper understanding of moderating regional ecological contexts requires combining intervention-driven conservation thinking with “holistic” conservation thinking. As an example, incentives intended to benefit farmland biodiversity may increase one resource, such as food availability, but fail to provide other key resources such as nesting sites or overwintering habitats (Kleijn et al. 2011).
  • Embedding specific conservation interventions within the context of multiscale ecological principles could help alleviate the problem that a focus on local conservation interventions is unable to deal with multiscale phenomena. However, it does not yet address another main criticism raised in the past, namely that existing work on evidence-based practice in general has been overly technocratic in its conception of real-world policy implementation and governance (Greenhalgh & Russell 2009, but see Pullin et al. 2009). In this context, drawing on insights from multilevel governance research could help to understand key challenges of implementing evidence-based interventions in practice. Such insights can be applied to both specific interventions, as well as to a more general, multiscale approach to conservation that is based on guiding ecological principles.
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  • An effective response to the wide variety in governance and ecological systems therefore calls for the creation of new decision-making forums that engage diverse constellations of actors and knowledge across spatial and temporal scales, in ways relevant to specific decisions (Paavola et al. 2009). This in turn raises issues of democratic legitimacy and accountability, because for citizens it may become difficult to assume democratic responsibilities when being part of overlapping sites of decision-making (Peters & Pierre 2005).
  • The second step will be to ensure that scientists, policy makers, and practitioners participate in the cocreation of policy-relevant science, going beyond identifying stakeholder-relevant questions for systematic reviews. From the outset, scientists and decision-makers should jointly consider how administrative and ecological scales fit in order to balance democratic legitimacy and ecological efficacy.
  • By being clear as to the types and scales of knowledge needed, and the limitations of existing knowledge to inform policy, decision-makers will also play a role in highlighting knowledge gaps. We thus frame decision-makers as actively participating stakeholders in shaping what evidence base is needed for conservation, rather than framing conservation policy as something that must respond to the agenda of scientists who produce evidence. As a consequence, there is a strong need to develop practical solutions, based on a joint effort by researchers, decision-makers and land-use planners, on how to integrate evidence-based practices and general ecological principles within a multilevel governance framework. Through embedding locally implemented conservation interventions within a broader context, we are confident they would gain both in legitimacy and effectiveness.
Alex Parker

California Valley Solar Ranch - Power Technology - 0 views

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    California Valley Solar Ranch (CVSR) is a 250MW solar photovoltaic (PV) power project developed in San Luis Obispo County, California, US. Construction of the project started in September 2011 and full commercial operations began in October 2013.
Alex Parker

Wired microbes - mini power plants convert sewage into energy - 0 views

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    Scientists from Stanford University have developed a microbial battery using 'wired microbes' to create power from sewage and wastewater. The technology, though small in scale, shows early promise as both an electricity source and an exciting new treatment for wastewater.
Alex Parker

World's first tidal lagoon power plant proposed at Swansea Bay in UK - 0 views

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    Tidal Lagoon Power is seeking approval for a £12bn project to develop a series of tidal energy plants in the UK that is claimed to be the world's first tidal lagoon power plant.
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