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Sustainability in Central Asia

Sustainability in Central Asia

Posted Wed, 02 Mar 2016 13:10:00 GMT by Dave Armstrong

The lists for leading nations in annual growth don’t often include Central Asia. The slow but steady investment in private enterprise and international partnerships with aid have brought some environmental improvements and greater water security in the dry, extreme climates found in the region.

Sustainability in Central Asia

Sustainable cotton: a need for investment

Sustainable cotton: a need for investment

Posted Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT by Dave Armstrong

Who can stomach the great environmental costs of growing cotton? It has destroyed seas and bankrupted many farmers . It is now down to manufacturing brand names to support their growers in ways they have not managed before. In the modern tradition, fair trading has reached the clothing industry.

Sustainable cotton: a need for investment

Pig farming improves its image (worldwide)

Pig farming improves its image (worldwide)

Posted Tue, 13 Jan 2015 19:21:14 GMT by Dave Armstrong

The impact of any agricultural activity on our carbon emissions is small compared to heavy industry. The attempts that have already been made, up to 2012, are admirable and will reward farmer and community alike with many environmental and even some energy benefits - and of course the porkers.

Pig farming improves its image (worldwide)

Latest solar advances very attractive for businesses.

Latest solar advances very attractive for businesses.

Posted Fri, 07 Nov 2014 22:11:00 GMT by JW Dowey

The future is solar, or are we condemned to this warming world, governed by fossil fuel investors and men who wear nylons --- the so-called deniers ?!

Latest solar advances very attractive for businesses.

Transformers, but with your house!

Transformers, but with your house!

Posted Fri, 10 Oct 2014 08:34:00 GMT by Paul Robinson

energy efficient houses, carbon neutral, housing associations, IKEA kitchens, financiers, housing tenants, green roof,

Transformers, but with your house!

Cotton growers need help

Cotton growers need help

Posted Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:58:01 GMT by JW Dowey

Cotton bolls don't get rotten too often-they run out of water, worldwide, where growers struggle to find the technologies and investment they need to combat climate change.

Cotton growers need help

Future Transport: roads, rail, air and sea problems

Future Transport: roads, rail, air and sea problems

Posted Thu, 31 Jul 2014 11:34:00 GMT by JW Dowey

What happens as business adapts to climate change. Will transport manage to avoid the hazards associated with floods, droughts and the heat? Finally, reports are getting down to detail on what we are going to have to do in the very near future. That is apart from stopping using fossils for fuel!

Future Transport: roads, rail, air and sea problems

A fly in your ear!

A fly in your ear!

Posted Wed, 23 Jul 2014 13:32:00 GMT by JW Dowey

The miracle of hearing has come to a tiny fly that couldn’t possibly find its prey without a totally unique method of locating crickets. Business needs to start creating a packaged system that can economically help our deaf and hard-of-hearing to hear the real world again.

A fly in your ear!

Ghosting human function: the robot future

Ghosting human function: the robot future

Posted Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:13:04 GMT by Dave Armstrong

We have always used aids to help our farming, security or surveillance. Now, as more uses appear for intelligent robotics, will we sit back and lose our fantastic disappearing skills completely, or can we maintain some of the humanity that existed throughout our long history of creativity?

Ghosting human function: the robot future

A titan of many varied businesses

A titan of many varied businesses

Posted Tue, 08 Jul 2014 16:21:06 GMT by Colin Ricketts

The common substance, titanium oxide, has uses as the invaluable metal but is now rising in price as its new uses in technologies everywhere demand its presence. You can find it in foods (as additive E171), drugs, cosmetics, paint and even your jeans.

A titan of many varied businesses

The end of elephants?

The end of elephants?

Posted Fri, 04 Jul 2014 08:19:00 GMT by Colin Ricketts

Now for the final fight against greed and selfishness. When the elephants are extinct, as seems likely at the moment, that ivory price in China will rise even higher!

The end of elephants?

Tea Team Produces Results

Tea Team Produces Results

Posted Fri, 20 Jun 2014 07:57:00 GMT by JW Dowey

The tea industry have just had their annual meeting with the emphasis on sustainability and links with the conservation movement. Fair trade has now opened up the window for wage accountability and help with higher yields.

Tea Team Produces Results

Solar electricity comes to your home-free!

Solar electricity comes to your home-free!

Posted Wed, 02 Apr 2014 12:40:00 GMT by Colin Ricketts

When we see countries developing a large renewable energy capacity, the whole earth can celebrate that there will be no more carbon emissions from some sources at least. Now for the riddance of fracking, coal and all gas and oil based industries, before the UNs latest warnings become tragically true even before we know it.

Solar electricity comes to your home-free!

The last of the Indonesian forest?

The last of the Indonesian forest?

Posted Thu, 02 Jan 2014 11:40:00 GMT by Dave Armstrong

Indonesian and other forests in the region have disappeared recently at an ever-increasing rate. Apart from major climatic effects, the entrancing species of the forest will soon be gone forever, unless that awful trend can be reversed. We can start by considering wood importation.

The last of the Indonesian forest?

Recycling, waste and profit

Recycling, waste and profit

Posted Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:30:00 GMT by Paul Robinson

Why not recycle in the same way as many motor manufacturers already do? We apparently have yet another dumping problem, highly illegal and causing health and safety problems in many countries. All because we are so greedy for the latest phone or tablet!

Recycling, waste and profit

The business of applying energy to water needs

The business of applying energy to water needs

Posted Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:55:00 GMT by Dave Armstrong

MIT have some well-developed technology for places where water is hard to supply. Maybe they should now try to solve the problem of drought, too.

The business of applying energy to water needs

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The Circular Economy and the Global Economy

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Sustaining us to the Summit!

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Sustainability in Central Asia

Posted Wed, 02 Mar 2016 13:10:00 GMT by Dave Armstrong

Sustainable cotton: a need for investment

Posted Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT by Dave Armstrong

Pig farming improves its image (worldwide)

Posted Tue, 13 Jan 2015 19:21:14 GMT by Dave Armstrong

Latest solar advances very attractive for businesses.

Posted Fri, 07 Nov 2014 22:11:00 GMT by JW Dowey