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Photovoltaking the future.

You might have noticed that the world is currently undergoing an energy transition – from fossil...

With the human population on this little planet of ours expected to grow to over 9 billion in the...

As discussed a couple of weeks ago in this blog (here), cycling has long been understood as a...

I once read that a human being on a bicycle is the most efficient means by which any animal has...

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership(TTIP) currently under negotiation between the US...

An article by veteran American environmental campaigner Bill McKibben appearing in Rolling Stone a...

Nobody is likely to argue with the claim that innovation is at the root of human prosperity. So it...

One of the more frustrating aspects of research is when the data will not conform to ones...

Last year the Economist magazine claimed that “While America and Europe are cutting their emissions...

Last week’s offering from this blog flew under the banner of “The Circular Economy” – a concept so...

The big boys who meet at the annual World Economic Forum at Davos aren’t really into warm fuzzy...

In the first article in this series a couple of weeks ago, I suggested that the trend towards...

Unless you have been living under a rock, or on the wrong side of the digital divide in a slum, you...

In recent years humankind reached a significant milestone when we became a predominantly urban...

A couple of years ago TIME magazine rated Handprints among the “10 ideas that are changing your...

‘Development’ might be a fuzzy concept, but it is essentially concerned with fostering conditions...

An innovation with a proven track record is hardly an innovation.

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a means of determining the environmental impact of a product,...