A visit to explore the Chinese LED industry
After applying for and obtaining a grant in the scheme of “In Search of Good Energy Policy” – a multidisciplinary group looking to improve energy policy, I embarked...
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Mapping Global Material Systems – The MinFuture project
As global demand for resources and materials increases, understanding the supply chains and material flows is critical in the capability for the European economy to remain competitive. With...
The Refficiency Collective goes to the International Sustainable Production and Consumption ICHEME Conference
Three members of the Refficiency Collective attended the ICHEME Conference on International Sustainable Production and Consumption. The event was held in Manchester on the 4th and 5th of...
The Benefits of Drought (Part 1)
Nothing stimulates creativity and innovation in the area of water resource efficiency like drought. While we usually hear about the negative impacts of drought, we don’t often see...
The Future of Cooling
The fastest growing use of energy in the buildings sector is space cooling, which tripled between 1990 and 2016. Left unchecked, global energy use on space cooling is...
Hybrid Renewable Energy
Perhaps the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions ‘solar power’, is an array of bluish photovoltaic (PV) panels, often visible on residential rooftops.
NOx a laughing matter
Diesel engine emissions (NOx) and laughing gas (N2O) may be denoted similarly, but the resource implications associated with their release as pollutants are quite different.
Consumers know best?
Book review. Another signal markets harm as well as help: externalities, inequality and now, Phishing for Phools. George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller, Princeton University Press 2015.