Senior lecturer Mikko Jalas is available to comment on how cities can use biochar in urban green spaces to help reach carbon neutrality.
Governments and citizens worldwide are increasingly concerned with climate change, creating many drives and initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. One relatively new invention, Flux Sensing, has the potential to help reduce emissions.
Researchers at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany and the Brazilian University of Pará have developed a climate-friendly alternative to conventional cement.
In a new paper published in the Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, the University of Maryland teamed up with local researchers to examine green infrastructure adoption and leadership in Tucson, Arizona, an interesting case study where grassroots efforts have helped to drive policy change in a growing urban area surrounded by water-constrained desert.
Waste cooking oil, sulfur and wool offcuts have been put to good use by green chemists at Flinders University to produce a sustainable new kind of housing insulation material.
Ambitious climate plans in Denmark and a strong focus on pollution from urban construction sites call for a green transformation of the building and construction sector.
( Green Science Policy Institute ) The use of the polymeric flame retardant PolyFR in 'eco-friendly' foam plastic building insulation may be harmful to human health and the environment, according to a new commentary in Environmental Science & Technology. The authors' analysis identifies several points during the lifecycle of foam insulation that may expose workers, communities, and ecosystems to PolyFR and its potentially toxic breakdown products.
SEGRO has secured planning consent from Haringey Council and the Greater London Authority to speculatively develop what is set to become London’s greenest industrial estate.
Today, 18 global cities including Buenos Aires, Paris, Washington D.C., and Delhi have launched Students Reinventing Cities, a pioneering competition that will enable students and universities from across the globe to share their vision for a green and just reinvention of our cities.
Flame-retardant impregnation company Woodsafe Timber Protection uses solar energy company El av Sol Nordic to build Västmanland's countys largest roof-mounted solar power plant at Woodsafe's factory in Sweden.