Photovoltaking the future.
You might have noticed that the world is currently undergoing an energy transition – from fossil...
Author: dlisle
Wasting food: a brief guide.
With the human population on this little planet of ours expected to grow to over 9 billion in the...
Enhancing urban mobility: Anyone for bicycle freedom?
As discussed a couple of weeks ago in this blog (here), cycling has long been understood as a...
A taste of Velo-efficiency
I once read that a human being on a bicycle is the most efficient means by which any animal has...
The TTIP: Partnership or legal straitjacket?
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership(TTIP) currently under negotiation between the US...
Unburnable Carbon: Bill McKibben’s frightening math
An article by veteran American environmental campaigner Bill McKibben appearing in Rolling Stone a...
Open source for climate innovation
Nobody is likely to argue with the claim that innovation is at the root of human prosperity. So it...
Resource Efficiency III: The Quarry and the Factory
One of the more frustrating aspects of research is when the data will not conform to ones...
Resource efficiency II: Offshoring resource consumption
Last year the Economist magazine claimed that “While America and Europe are cutting their emissions...
Resource Efficiency: Measuring and Managing Metabolism
Last week’s offering from this blog flew under the banner of “The Circular Economy” – a concept so...
The Circular Economy: Another ‘Industrial Revolution’?
The big boys who meet at the annual World Economic Forum at Davos aren’t really into warm fuzzy...
The greening of construction (Part III): Buildings Ratings tools in international context
In the first article in this series a couple of weeks ago, I suggested that the trend towards...
The greening of construction (Part II): International development of EPDs
Unless you have been living under a rock, or on the wrong side of the digital divide in a slum, you...
The greening of construction (Part I): Overview
In recent years humankind reached a significant milestone when we became a predominantly urban...
From footprints to handprints: clutching at straws?
A couple of years ago TIME magazine rated Handprints among the “10 ideas that are changing your...
A New Development Paradigm?
‘Development’ might be a fuzzy concept, but it is essentially concerned with fostering conditions...
A Disruptive EU? : Environmental Technology Verification Comes to Europe
An innovation with a proven track record is hardly an innovation.
Product environmental footprinting: Harmonization or proliferation of standards?
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a means of determining the environmental impact of a product,...