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Smart Grid: The game
In his best seller “Outliers,” Malcolm Gladwell shows that it is not equipment failure or storms that typically cause planes to crash, but wrong decision-making. Much the same can be said for the power grid crash that took down a large swath of the Northeast in August 2003. The emerging smart grid is supposed to make our power system more reliable. The bad news is that it also will add complexity to North America’s already byzantine power machine. So smart grid will only be as smart as the people ... |
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Ghost in green building
In midtown Manhattan, home of the nation’s priciest office space, the equivalent of 16 office towers, each 40 stories high, now stand empty. This statistic, from the Wall Street Journal, underscores the vast damage inflicted on commercial real estate by the economic downturn. Given the ailing market, this hardly seems the time to invest in expensive green upgrades. But a recent report suggests just the opposite.
Issued by sustainability organization Ceres and investment services company Mercer, ... |
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The Business Case for Carbon Management : learn from 3 leading companies
Sustainability and environmental initiatives, including carbon management, fall into two main categories: short term tactical actions based on waste, energy use, and carbon emissions reduction; and longer term strategic actions focused on transforming the overall footprint of companies. At the moment, tactical actions predominate. But recent corporate projects are trending toward the strategic. 2010 may prove to be pivotal in this respect.
Learn about the carbon management strategy of 3 leading companies and why they are not waiting to take action…
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- 2010 predictions
Our thoughts are below on what may be headed our way in 2010 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency`s (EPA) Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and ...
- Beyond LEED, Part 1
Twenty years ago, few people recognized the need for concern about the negative environmental impact of building construction and the contribution that ...
- US EPA proposes to tighten ground-level ozone standards
On Jan. 7, 2010, USEPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced the agency will propose to lower the ambient air quality standard for ozone to its most ...
- Investors and public back energy efficiency
Energy efficiency finally has transitioned from being a good idea to a good business – to a very good business. Money poured into the industry last year, ...
- EPA increases transparency on chemical risk information
On January 21st the EPA announced a new policy to increase the public’s access to information on chemicals. In the announcement, the EPA stated its intention ...
- Ethanol by-product raises biogas output
In 2007, the City of Fergus Falls, Minnesota undertook a study to evaluate adding thick corn stillage to the anaerobic digesters at its wastewater treatment ...
- Deployment of biokinetic modeling tools to optimize real time biological wastewater process control in the oil refining industry
Perhaps no industry has more operationally failing wastewater treatment plants than those deployed in the Oil & Petrochemical market segments. These plants ...
- Spatially distributed lateral nitrate transport at the catchment scale
Received for publication January 23, 2009. In river catchments, N transformation and storage processes during lateral transport are important in controlling ...
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