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Hannah Lee on Environmental Engineering and Interdisciplinarity
Topic: Environmental Engineering, Consilience, Inter-disciplinarity, and Climate Adaptation Field and Institution: Engineering, Harvard University Bio: Hannah Lee is a PhD student in the environmental...
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Dr. Klaus Lackner on Air Capture and Climate Change Mitigation
Topic: Air Capture Technology and Climate Mitigation Institution: Columbia University, Earth Institute Bio: Klaus Lackner is the Ewing Worzel Professor of Geophysics and Earth and Environmental...
View ArticleThe coming onslaught of electric cars?
I’ve been somewhat skeptical in the past about the widespread use of electric cars, but I also tend to trust people who make big bets on that prospect. Dominion Power is the latest company to start...
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Piping up against Keystone XL
For several months, a fierce debate has raged over the Keystone XL pipeline, the proposed 1,661 mile TransCanada project that will carry Canadian tar sands from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico. Strong...
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Generation Revolution
With partisan gridlock on energy policy settled over Washington, a casual observer might assume that this nation’s decades-old fleet of coal-fired power plants will remain largely unchanged. Indeed, it...
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Fixing It First: How to Address America’s Aging Infrastructure, Part I
Kanaka Menehune In his State of the Union address on February 12, President Obama singled out rebuilding America’s infrastructure as a policy priority. Citing the deteriorating quality of the country’s...
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Water Policy and Sustainable Development, Part One: What are the Key Issues?
Water Policy and Sustainable Development – Part One What are the key sustainability challenges surrounding our use of the planet’s freshwater resources? Is there such a thing as a “global water...
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Efficient Homes
Due to the UK’s effort to achieve its carbon targets and to reduce its energy consumption, there is a lot of discussion at the policy and academic levels regarding the potential of various retrofit...
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Efficient Behaviour
In 2012, domestic energy use was responsible for approximately 29% of the final energy consumption in the UK. Research shows that behavioural aspects have a significant effect on domestic energy...
View ArticleManaging Water
Saturday March 22 was World Water Day, a day designated by the United Nations to raise awareness about water-related issues and to contribute to a policy dialog involving key stakeholders. To highlight...
View ArticleOld Walls
My previous article described potential retrofit solutions for historic buildings and discussed the difficulties and challenges involved in the process. One of the most common retrofit options for...
View ArticleWasting Water
If you’ve been following California politics and government, or really any Western government actions, you’ve probably noticed that the California Water Resources Board, which governs water use in the...
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Building Carbon
Energy consumption in buildings due to their operation and use has been a concern during the past decade. Relevant legislation is in place aiming to address this issue and to reduce the operational...
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Explosive Power
Along the western border of Rwanda, an innovative energy project on Africa’s 2,700 square kilometer Lake Kivu is generating electricity in a region beset by both geochemical and geopolitical...
View ArticleEnergy Transmission
Transmission lines hold much of the same challenge and promise of the interstate highway system a century ago. The transmission network – the high voltage, long distance power lines that carry...
View ArticleViewing Methane
This post first appeared on the EDF Voices blog. Throughout history, maps have played a critical role in shaping our decisions—helping us determine where we are going and how we are going to get...
View ArticleUrban Heat
Following Britain’s unusually warm July, we focus here on summer overheating. According to the Met Office statistics, July 2014 has been one of the ten warmest and sunniest since 1910. It is becoming...
View ArticlePower to the People
The Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) Initiative focuses on the provision of sustainable energy to everyone, especially the poorest regions of the world that still lack electricity infrastructure....
View ArticleClean Energy in India: Opportunities for Solar Microgrids
Part two of a series on clean energy in India. In part one of this series, I introduced solar microgrids as a way for clean energy to reach India’s most rural and remote corners. The benefits of...
View ArticleClean Energy in India: The Challenges for Implementing Solar Microgrids
This is part three in a three part series on clean energy in India. In my last post, I highlighted a number of advantages of solar microgrid implementation for clean energy access and rural development...
View ArticleCarbon Sequestration
As many nations consider the adoption of carbon capture and sequestration programs, one power plant in Saskatchewan is providing an intriguing, but somewhat concerning, use for sequestered carbon: oil...
View ArticleMotivations for home energy retrofit
Energy retrofit is currently promoted with several schemes and incentives in the UK, such as the Green Deal, the Energy Company Obligation (ECO), the Feed in Tariff (FiT) and the Renewable Heat...
View ArticleDon’t Siesta on Sustainability: How Renewables Can Reinvigorate the Dominican...
Never before has the opportunity to go green in the energy sector been as appealing and accessible as in the Caribbean. This four-part blog series documents the paradigm shift currently under way in...
View Article“Give Me Light, Give Me Life”: How Renewables Are Rekindling Hope in Haiti...
Never before has the opportunity to go green in the energy sector been as appealing and accessible as in the Caribbean. This four-part blog series documents the paradigm shift currently under way in...
View ArticleCarbon Sequestration
As many nations consider the adoption of carbon capture and sequestration programs, one power plant in Saskatchewan is providing an intriguing, but somewhat concerning, use for sequestered carbon: oil...
View ArticleAre electric vehicles finally taking off? Here’s what you need to know.
Editor’s Note: This article was first published by the Environmental Defense Fund, an organization focusing on creating economical policies to support clean air and water; abundant fish and wildlife;...
View ArticleDutch Trains Powered by 100% Wind Energy
Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the International Development Journal, an online journal offering a platform to engage in debate and discussions on global policies and current affairs....
View ArticleCOVID-19 and the Air Inside
Decades of research have clearly demonstrated the impact of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) on building occupants. The health and well-being of building users are linked to the atmosphere around them, from...
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