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Finnish Waste to Wheel Technology

July 1, 2011 by Andrew Cox
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Due to its location on the periphery of Europe, biofuel developments by Finnish companies often receive less media attention than they deserve. However, the country has been developing a range of technologies to convert its indigenous organic wastes, wood and biomass resources into high quality biofuels.St1 GroupA key player in this... [read more]

Is Anaerobic Digestion The Ideal Sustainable Technology?

June 23, 2011 by David Thorpe
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Between three and five terawatt-hours of energy could be supplied by anaerobic digestion by 2020, according to the Government's new Anaerobic Digestion Strategy and Action Plan.The Plan contains guidance on the cost and benefits of AD for developers and local authorities, and tactics for training and developing markets for the biogas... [read more]

Walmart: The Power–And Limits–Of Efficiency

April 24, 2011 by Marc Gunther
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 Arguably, Walmart has done more than any environmental group, politician, government regulator or Silicon Valley clean tech firm to nudge the U.S. economy towards sustainability in the last five years.  Walmart’s 2011 Global Responsibility Report, published last week, makes clear that despite the recession and some revently... [read more]

Art Wharton - What about external costs of energy technologies? Part 1

December 28, 2010 by Joseph Koblich
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The often-ignored difference maker There are numerous articles and analyses on the construction, operation, maintenance, and fuel costs of the various forms of energy that demonstrate that nuclear power is competitive with coal power generation. The articles and analyses reveal that nuclear and coal run neck-and-neck for the total cost... [read more]

Waste Management earns its name

December 7, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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Big companies aren’t good at breakthrough innovation.  Disruptive innovation usually comes from start-ups or entrepreneurs. (See Big Business’s big innovation problem.) Big companies are even worse at innovation when it threaten to cannibalize their existing business. Think about why newspapers failed to create a Craigslist or why... [read more]

Recycling Our Way to Sustainable Waste Management

September 20, 2010 by Robert Rapier
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While my focus is primarily on energy, I am also interested in other sustainability issues. Some of those include food production, water issues (e.g. water desalination to increase availability of fresh water), and waste management. I have discussed waste management here before in My Composting Experiment. (My experiment has gone quite... [read more]

Complaining or Taking Action

April 25, 2010 by Anja Atkinson
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. Complaining about the state of the world is at epidemic proportions. Hand-wringing, reactionary postures and useless sarcasm have become nothing more than a bad habit, that serves nothing except to irritate that rest of us, who honestly wish you would all shut up. It's like being on a camping trip with Heidi Montag. Sorry to the... [read more]

Enerkem to build $250M trash-to-ethanol plant in Mississippi

March 19, 2009 by Tyler Hamilton
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There’s something about this company I just really like. Montreal-based Enerkem Inc. announced today that it will build, own and operate a waste-to-ethanol plant in Pontotoc, Mississippi, marking its first deal in the United States. The facility, called Enerkem Mississippi Biofuels, will involve an investment of $250 million. That will... [read more]

Shed No Tears for Yucca Mountain

March 9, 2009 by William Tucker
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“White House Buries Yucca,”read the headlines on Friday after Secretary of Energy Steven Chu told a Senate hearing that the Nevada repository is “no longer an option” for long-term storage of nuclear waste.Instead, Chu said, the Obama Administration will cut all but the most rudimentary funding and be content to allow spent fuel rods to... [read more]

Environmentalism: a by-product of making money

November 14, 2007 by David Tebbutt
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E F Schumacher became the first popular environmentalist when his "Small is Beautiful" book was published in 1973. His theme was "Economics as if people mattered" and he introduced the concept of 'sustainability' with respect to our exploitation of the planet's resources.At the time the book was written, we all saw the planet as a... [read more]

Bio-methane Transportation

October 28, 2007 by Jonathan Smith
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When waste water is clarified, the biologically active sludge that results can be fed into a digester. Of the 6.5 million tons of waste fats, oils, and grease produced annually in the United States, the majority is used for animal feed, soaps, lubricants and fatty acids. About 20% is exported for similar uses. I had presumed that other... [read more]