How Technology Is Providing Solutions for Clean Water

...are the electricity and agriculture industries, accounting for 80 percent of the daily consumption. The former requires huge amounts of water for cooling thermoelectric power plants, whereas the latter requires...
Posted On 18 Sep 2017
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Fresh hope raised of global warming limit

...is how much more carbon dioxide can the factories, power stations and car exhausts of the world emit before the temperature goes up another 0.6°C, but no higher? Almost as...
Posted On 20 Sep 2017
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Vulnerable infrastructure at risk from climate

...of roads and railways, power plants, industry, water supplies, schools and hospitals – in the teeth of the increasing ferocity of extreme weather. Over the past three decades, most natural...
Posted On 01 Dec 2017
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Hotter world than predicted may be here by 2100

...– Tomorrow may experience a hotter world than anyone had feared. Global warming, under the notorious “business-as-usual scenario” in which humans go on burning fossil fuels to power economic growth,...
Posted On 08 Dec 2017
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Canada Needs to Clean Up its Carbon Act, says OECD

...fossil fuel support since 2004, although support remains at provincial level. The announced phase-out of coal-fired power generation by 2030 and the planned establishment of a federal clean fuel standard...
Posted On 19 Dec 2017
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Urban forests add to cities’ health and wealth

...and spending power and found room for improvement: the same cities could find room for 20% more forest. “By cultivating the trees within the city, residents and visitors get direct...
Posted On 08 Jan 2018
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Canadian Public Spending – Going Green and More Social

Guest Article by: Barb Everdene Reeve Consulting   A network of nineteen leading public sector organizations has just released a report on how they used their spending power in 2017...
Posted On 17 Apr 2018
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Clean energy is vital – but still not enough

...– that biofuels, based on ethanol converted from crops or plantations, or just burned in power stations, could deliver reliable energy. There is a second argument, yet to be tested...
Posted On 13 Jul 2018
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