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The New European Bauhaus festival: putting ideas into action

Published on June 6, 2022

Architects, high-level European officials, and sustainability and construction experts will take to Brussels from 9 to 12 June for the first New European Bauhaus Festival. The event will offer a chance to discuss and share ideas on how to build the cities of the future, reshaping the urban landscape with greener and more appealing structures. The […]

Sustainability lessons for SMEs from Expo 2020 Dubai

Published on May 3, 2022

Responsible business practices discussed at Expo 2020 Dubai can show the way for innovators and entrepreneurs to help realise the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Expo 2020 could well be a turning point for sustainability in business. With the SDGs at the heart of the Expo 2020 agenda, attendees were constantly reminded of their role […]

Sheep fleeces offer a sustainable way to repair rural footpaths

Published on March 11, 2022

Sheep fleeces have been used to repair a footpath at a nature reserve in Skye in an attempt to move away from “unsustainable” plastic repair materials. The wool came from local crofts just six miles away and was packed into the ground and layered with stones. This allows the water underneath to drain away naturally. […]

Sea level to rise up to a foot by 2050, interagency report finds

Published on February 19, 2022

NASA, NOAA, USGS, and other U.S. government agencies project that the rise in ocean height in the next 30 years could equal the total rise seen over the past 100 years. Coastal flooding will increase significantly over the next 30 years because of sea level rise, according to a new report by an interagency sea […]

Why plastic pollution is a producer responsibility

Published on January 17, 2021

We won’t be able to stem the tide of plastic waste until manufacturers are held accountable for their products. We’re all culprits in the plastic pollution crisis — and that’s by design. I was reminded of this recently when I ordered a set of carbon filters for my countertop compost bin. (Like most people, I […]

Climate tipping points: an interview with Tim Lenton

Published on January 11, 2021

Over the past twenty years the concept of “tipping points” has become more familiar to the public. Tipping points are critical thresholds at which small changes can lead to dramatic shifts in the state of the entire system. Awareness of climate tipping points has grown in policy circles in recent years in no small part […]

‘Sustainable City’ deploys monitoring equipment to measure biodiversity impact

Published on October 7, 2020

DUBAI, 6th October, 2020 (WAM) -- The Sustainable City, the first fully operational environment-friendly community in the Middle East by Diamond Developers, has launched a community-wide biodiversity assessment programme. It has deployed monitoring equipment to measure the impact of urban ecology on biodiversity and ecosystem health. The Sustainable City is the region’s first community to […]

Why the boom in biomass electricity needs to stop urgently

Published on September 6, 2020

The forest biomass industry is sprawling and spreading globally — rapidly growing in size, scale, revenue, and political influence — even as forest ecologists and climatologists warn that the industry is putting the planet’s temperate and tropical forests at risk, and aggressively lobbying governments against using wood pellets as a “renewable energy” alternative to burning […]

Everything you need to know about the Amazon rainforest: an interview with Mark Plotkin

Published on May 13, 2020

As Earth’s largest rainforest, the Amazon is the planet’s single greatest repository of biodiversity, houses the largest number of uncontacted indigenous tribes, and is home to the world’s mightiest river. It is also the engine that generates rainfall that sustains regional economies, sequesters upward of a hundred billion tons of carbon, and helps prevent hurricanes from striking the […]

The Sustainable City Dubai uses IoT technology for smart rat-catching

Published on February 14, 2020

Rats love cities just as much as people do, a phenomenon that has been a problem for centuries. Dubai Sustainable City is now using smart devices from Danish RATMO to sustainably address the issue. Ratmo’s sensors - and mobile app - are designed with both the user and the environment in mind. This Danish invented […]

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