Energy and Sustainability
Sunflowers to save us: repairing contaminated land and powering our homes
Cranfield University2021-09-15T10:10:15+01:0006/04/2016|Tags: abandoned land, arsenic, biomass, contaminated land, ecosystems, energy, land, land owners, metal toxicity, mining, phytoremediation, pollution, sunflower, tin, uk, willow|
We know our land is valuable, but we haven’t always valued it in the past. Currently, there are more than 400 million hectares of contaminated or abandoned land (that's roughly 400 million rugby pitches). Obviously ...
Why the UK is developing floating wind farms
Cranfield University2021-09-14T16:49:48+01:0004/02/2016|Tags: energy and power, renewable energy, wind energy, wind power|
Statoil has made the final investment decision to build the world’s first floating wind farm after getting an approval from the Scottish Government in early November 2015. So, why is the UK developing floating wind farms? Why wind? The ...
Why we need business to boom after COP21
Professor Simon Pollard2015-12-10T16:54:53+00:0010/12/2015|Tags: business and the environment, clean technologies, climate change, Conference of the Parties, cop21, global agreement, green economy, greenhouse gas emissions, low carbon, UN climate conference|
Business has long been considered to have a problematic relationship with the environment. Since the industrial revolution, the side effect of growing business has been a growing impact on the environment around us. As the ...