According to the United Nations Report on Global Warming, the meat production industry is one of the “most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global”. Currently 18% of carbon dioxide green house gas emissions is directly related to factory farming. The rapid deforestation of the Amazon rainforest…
This week, I had the opportunity to see a demonstration of Autodesk‘s new Eco Materials Adviser, a tool the company developed with Granta Design that is intended to help product designers make better decisions around material choices. Since the majority of a product’s lifecycle impacts are determined during the design phase, the tool has the potential to help…
Digital Journal Berlin – In the wake of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear meltdown, the German government has reversed its energy policy and will gradually wean itself from its nuclear energy program, shutting down its reactors by 2022. Germany, Europe’s largest economy and the world’s fourth largest, announced on Monday it will undertake a revolutionary new energy policy,…
As the need for renewable energy increases options on energy storage have needed tactics on expansion to better meet the future needs of society. Consequently, wind and solar have not being able to compete with conventional energy sources such as coal, oil, and nuclear with out government subsidies because of the variability and the costly…