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Food packaging: in need of repackaging
Faced as we are with a global food shortage crises, economic downturn and climate change, could food packaging, in fact, be the key to reducing waste? Sarah Pursey explores the packaging debate and asks whether less really is more?
Environmental Business Leads the Way
In these challenging times for global business, one industry has been singled out as a potential catalyst to stimulate the revival of the world economy.
Green Shoots
Amid the pressures of the global financial crisis, some might ask how we can afford to tackle climate change. The UN’s Green Economy Initiative instead asks, ‘How can we afford not to?’
Slow steam ahead
Will slower shipping speeds be the norm in the future? Sarah Pursey takes a look at how the shipping industry is responding both to the challenge of reducing its environmental impact and staying commercially viable in an economic climate of ever increasing oil prices, which despite a recent reprise are predicted to reach new highs in the not to distant future.
Power to the people?
In the field of energy generation, does big necessarily have to be better? The idea that size equals efficiency is deeply ingrained in our way of thinking – but what of other experiments in generation on a smaller scale?
All that glitters…
Ranking the environmental performance of countries against a range of pre-set criteria, the Environmental Performance Index from Yale and Columbia Universities is recognised as the environmental benchmarking standard for countries around the world.
Active disassembly
To most people recycling is something that you put in the green box and leave for the bin-men. However, for anyone involved in the European manufacturing industry, the process is very different, as EU directives are demanding considerations for recycling
Combating carbon emissions
Climate change is an issue on everyone’s agenda, yet the figures detailing carbon production continue to grow. Pioneering new methods for reducing carbon emissions are being developed every day.
Small steps as India’s energy use soars
With its chaotic, low-tech cities, India is no beacon of green living, however driven by high energy costs and scant domestic supplies small steps are being made with new regulations outlined.
- Industry
- General
- Energy
As oil starts to run dry, demand rises for hybrid cars, and electric cars make their way from conceptual design to mass production, the future of transport, experts say, lies in lithium.
Revealing the Hidden Charge
Algae are the focus of attempts to achieve commercially-viable systems for harnessing photosynthesis for atmospheric CO2 fixation and biosynthesis of fuels.
A Green Solution
Money may not buy happiness, but can happiness make us money? Is it just that we have had the causality wrong all along?