Read what our writers around the world are saying about climate change.
There’s no reason why facing up to the challenge of climate change should not result in wide benefits to human society, including economic benefits. That’s the argument of the multiple authors of Reframing the Problem of Climate Change: From Zero Sum Game to Win-Win Solutions. The book is ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker this month, about Children and Families, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Forestry, Innovation, Renewals
Global use of hydropower increased more than 5 percent between 2009 and 2010, according to new research published by the Worldwatch Institute for its Vital Signs Online publication. Hydropower use reached a record 3,427 terawatt-hours, or about 16.1 percent of global electricity consumption, by the end of 2010 ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics
The NZ Clean Energy Centre (NZCEC) has just completed an online survey in which respondents were asked – among other things – to identify their interest in living in an off grid housing community in Taupo. Home heating would be supplied via either geothermal or biomass. Electricity would be supplied by solar ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Architecture, Children and Families, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Lifestyle & Behavior, Solar, Sustainability
With climate change promising to be one of the biggest factors in global investment for the foreseeable future, investors were changing the way in which they did business and catalysing new energy solutions along the way, experts said at Headquarters today. At a press conference sponsored and co-hosted by the ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Finance & Money, Innovation, Solar, waste, Water, Wind Energy
Here's a strange story . It's about cities in the US making serious undertakings to either purchase renewable energy or taking proactive steps to offset emissions from non renewable energy . We were trying to find the city in New Zealand that had rivalled the committed of Austin in Texas ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Clean Technologies, Emissions, Green energy, Politics & Government (1 comment)
Mention prime geography for generation of solar energy, and people tend to think of hot deserts. But a new study concludes that some of the world's coldest landscapes — including the Himalaya Mountains, the Andes, and even Antarctica — could become Saudi Arabias of solar. The research appears in the ACS ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in December 2011, about Clean Technologies, Design, Economics, Innovation, Poverty & Development, Solar
Industrial Research Ltd (IRL) is launching a strategic partnership with the Queensland Government and The Mercator Alliance Ltd with the view to developing a science and innovation portal in Singapore. The portal will showcase emerging New Zealand and Queensland technologies in the energy and environmental sectors and encourage collaborative research ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in December 2011, about Branding, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Emissions, Events, Industry & Business, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Science, Sustainability
What does a commercial cleaning company have to do with China’s environment? Paramount Services managing director Galvin Bartlett wants Kiwis to learn the environmental lessons from China’s extraordinary development so is bringing journalist and author Jonathan Watts to New Zealand for a speaking tour in early 2012. Watts ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in December 2011, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Corporate Social Responsibility, Industry & Business, Innovation, Politics & Government
Written by Celsias in December 2011, about Advertising, Children and Families, Clean Technologies, Electric vehicles, Innovation, marketing, Media
Patent attorney Jonathan Lucas overviews five recent advances in technology that give reason for optimism when it comes to climate change. Is the atmosphere half full or half empty? Global warming is a gloomy subject. Not surprising, considering the disastrous consequences of anthropogenic impacts on the atmosphere predicted by many ... keep reading
Written by Jonathan Lucas in December 2011, about Carbon Sequestration, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Design, Innovation, Intellectual Property (1 comment)
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