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With the Trump administration prioritizing fossil fuels, cities and states will have to lead the way on clean energy.
The Ontario government’s new policy directive to allow bids from natural gas and nuclear energy may hinder the province’s ability to transition to a cleaner and more sustainable energy future.
Paul Hawken’s The Ecology of Commerce is reviewed by Professor Denise Baden, Professor of Sustainable Business at the University of Southampton.
If Alberta prepares to transition from oil and gas to solar energy, the workforce will need retraining. New research shows that this will cost less than expected.
Lithium-ion batteries are holding back the full-scale decarbonization of Canada’s energy grid. Zinc-ion batteries may be the solution.
As more companies feature wood and other bio-based products in their offices, what are opportunities and limitations of making corporate net-zero carbon pledges about building materials?
The socio-economic and political factors that keep conventional energy out of reach of the poor can do the same with renewable energy.
By identifying the roots of global ills such as climate change and biodiversity, there’s an opportunity for coordinated action as countries lay new pathways for a post-COVID world.
Last year, it was estimated data centres around the world generated the same amount of carbon emissions as created by the global airline industry’s fuel usage.
The debate about the transition away from fossil fuels has focused on costs, but right here in Australia we have examples of the benefits of sustainable new energy sources for our cities.
The value of green technologies and systems is that they are largely decentralised or semi-decentralised.
Two business professors spent five years studying Walmart’s ambition project to bring sustainability to its millions of budget-conscious customers – a plan that began with the birth of a granddaughter.
There are some big misconceptions about the charcoal sector and its role in environmental damage.
The UN Sustainable Energy initiative has set the goal of ensuring sustainable energy for all by 2030. However, the international community still can’t overcome the problem of energy access.
City-centric thinking arguably obscures connections between ‘humans’ and ‘nature’, and ‘urban’ and ‘rural’ or ‘wild’. Growing evidence of the depths of these links is testing the concept of ‘urban’.
Investment is key if Nigeria is to improve on providing adequate energy to the people.
Integrated research is key to sustainable development, which helps Africa resolve its energy woes.
Sustainable energy is crucial for smaller African cities which are generally overlooked. These cities receive much less research and funding focus.
Low frequency vibrations could power small electronic devices indefinitely. Researchers have designed an aluminium nitride-based…
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Director of the Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place, University of Liverpool
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Research Scientist, Bioenergy, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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Lecturer in Manufacturing Engineering Tripos, University of Cambridge
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Reader in Geography, University of Sussex
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Associate Professor of International Business, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Climate Change Adaptation, La Trobe University
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Director, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Research Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management & Coordinator of Academic Sustainability, University of Arkansas
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Lecturer in Geography, Maynooth University
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Visiting Professor of Sustainability Science, Technical University of Denmark
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Researcher in the Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer in Parasite Epidemiology, School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University
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Lecturer, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Professor of Sustainable Practice, University of Southampton
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Professor and holder of a Research Chair in Applied Systems Analysis, University of the Witwatersrand