Uganda: Water filter innovation
Clean water is a human right. But in Uganda, children die every year from diarrhea caused by diseases contracted through polluted water. Worldwide, acute gastroenteritis is the second leading cause of death in young children up to the age of five.
The large refugee settlement of Nakivale in western Uganda is no exception: access to clean drinking water is very rare. Dina Nabintu, who fled violence in Congo (DRC) with her family, has to boil water from the nearby lake. But boiling consumes large amounts of wood and coal, resulting in deforestation and high CO2 emissions.
Wind and solar energy are job creators. Which states are taking advantage?
If there’s one sure-fire way to get the ear of most politicians, it’s the word “jobs.”
It seems almost any issue can be framed as either job-growing or job-killing, depending on which side of the issue one wishes to support. All too often, environmental policies are criticized as a threat to jobs, and the false dichotomy of “job vs. the environment” is a well-worn rhetorical strategy of those opposing environmental regulations.
But what about tending to the challenges posed by a warming climate? Addressing climate change is an enormous job creator, across many economic sectors and in every part of the world. Fossil fuels lie at the core of the issue, and fossil fuels are replaceable by other forms of energy that also require human planning, engineering, and labor. No matter what type of fuel we use, the thirst for energy is everlasting; there will be a perpetual need for energy jobs – it’s o
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As the global economy adapts to the transition away from carbon-based sources of energy, there is an increased focus on the use of renewable energy to provide a zero-emission source of electrical power. An integral part of the solution is batteries and energy storage systems. One Japanese company that is leading the field in this respect is The Furukawa Battery Company (Furukawa Battery).
Furukawa Battery traces its origins back to 1914, when Furukawa Electric established its battery factory in Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture, and started production of lead-acid batteries. In 1950 Furukawa Electric spun off its battery business, and Furukawa Battery as a separate company was formed. Since then, the company has continued to evolve & expand, and now employs over 2,400 people.
Posted By Nina Rangel on Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 11:00 AM click to enlarge Courtesy of Alamo Beer Co. Head brewer Gregg Spickler moves fermentation tanks which yield CO2 naturally as a byproduct of beer making.
Sustainability has been a buzzword in food circles for some time now avoiding overfished seafood and choosing to serve local, seasonal crops, for example.
But that focus on ecological balance is about more than just what goes on diners’ plates. A growing number of breweries and wineries including a couple in San Antonio understand it also involves what goes into their glasses as well.
Local outfits Alamo Beer Co. and Re:Rooted 210 produce Texas beer and wine, respectively and they’re doing it with cutting-edge technology th
Our talks page provides links to many recorded presentations John Cook and others have given over the years. It also shows how the presentations evolved and how their focus changed from the early to current days. While climate science (e.g. here from 2013) and how that regularly gets distorted (e.g. here from 2016) was initially the main focus, things have broadened to encompass science misinformation more generally. Over time, more and more of John s Cranky Uncle cartoons made appearances in his presentations and he even managed to give one talk for CSICon Las Vegas 2018 where he explained climate science denial using only his cartoons - which I find quite the feat, but judge for yourself: