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The next big push for green buildingFor the building industry, reducing embodied carbon is the next big challenge. Green building uses less energy. Today, and in the years ahead, the building industry will need to think about not just a building’s operational emissions but all the energy that goes into creating it—from the harvesting and manufacturing…

Emissions impossible? Why meat and dairy companies need to be monitored Did you know that the average American eats 3 burgers per week? Our farm animals outnumber humans. The combined total of chickens (19 billion), cows (1.5 billion), sheep (1 billion) and pigs (1 billion) living at any one time is three times higher than…

When a river is a person: from Ecuador to New Zealand New Zealand passed its first rights for nature law in March 2017. In the early 2000s, the idea of giving legal rights to nature was on the fringes of environmental legal theory and public consciousness. There, the Whanganui River, which flows across the North Island, has…

BladeBUG: Advanced Robot How can advanced robotics transform operations at offshore wind farms and reduce costs and maximize the useful life of the turbines? Whilst working as a turbine blade engineer BladeBUG founder, Chris Cieslak, became convinced that advanced robotics could transform operations at offshore wind farms, reducing costs and maximizing asset lifetimes. Robots and humans…

Fashion Trends Are Often Recycled. Now More Clothing Can Be, TooDesigners and tech start-ups are working to improve sustainability and interrupt the path to the landfill by as much as 20%. The process, called NuCycl, will update the initial recycling step of sorting, grading and shredding fabric by adding a camera that can more accurately identify…

Tasmanian island to be powered by wave energy In about one month’s time, a remote Tasmanian island will be powered by wave energy. If the test project is successful, King Island residents will enjoy renewable energy harnessed from wave swells. This will make the island one of the few places on Earth where three forms…