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MIT Campus Climate Resiliency Framework Deals with Sustainability Challenges

Like most offices across MIT, the Office of Sustainability (MITOS) has in recent months worked to pivot projects while seeking to understand and participate in the emergence of a new normal as the result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

16 Jul 2020

Nidec ASI Growing in Northern Europe Under the Flag of Sustainability with 3 New Projects for Storing Clean Energy

Nidec ASI, the Nidec Industrial Solutions platform belonging to the Nidec Group, is growing in Northern Europe and is supplying battery energy storage solutions (BESS) for three major projects in Finland and Sweden.

From Nidec Industrial Solutions 16 Jul 2020

Renewable Energy Transition Makes Dollars And Sense

Making the transition to a renewable energy future will have environmental and long-term economic benefits and is possible in terms of energy return on energy invested, UNSW Sydney researchers have found.

16 Jul 2020

New Mobile Monitoring App to Optimize Rice Farming

Google Earth, the Group on Earth Observations and the University of Sydney will develop the world's first real-time monitoring platform for rice fields globally.

14 Jul 2020

Study Reports UK Government can Take New Approach to Recover its Fish Stocks

The United Kingdom has a unique opportunity to start rebuilding its fish stocks by taking advantage of the slowdown in commercial fishing caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing Brexit negotiations, new research has shown.

14 Jul 2020

Ways to Accelerate Sustainable Growth of Vertical Farming with Aeroponic Systems

Vertical farms with their soil-free, computer-controlled environments may sound like sci-fi.

14 Jul 2020

New Process to Convert CO2 Emissions into Construction Materials

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a two-year, $2 million grant to a team of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to support the advancement of a process for converting carbon dioxide emissions into construction materials.

13 Jul 2020