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What can you do with leftover coffee grounds?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can you do with leftover coffee grounds?

...carbon material full of small pores which increase the surface area, known as “activated” carbon. This new material is capable of absorbing and storing methane and hydrogen, both of which can be used as fuels. While the ability to store these fuels from such a cheap material is a great step towards making this technology more viable, it also provides an environmental...
The planet as the stakeholder
Money & Business

The planet as the stakeholder

...carbon emissions and environmental concerns are heard at a strategic level in large organisations in particular. There is much concern for the way we interact with our natural environment, local community ecosystems and the continued reliance on oil and gas to furnace the business’s focus on growth. In order to realise the power our natural systems have with regard to...
Laser beam welding
Science, Maths & Technology

Laser beam welding

...carbon: Low carbon – good welds. Brittle welds with >2% carbon Steel-stainless: 300 Series – welds well except 303 and 303 SE. 400 Series – brittle welds Titanium: Ductile welds, tend to oxidise easily Tungsten: Very brittle welds (needs high energy input due to high melting point) Low heat input gives less distortion and a smaller HAZ than conventional methods. Has...
How do ruminants digest?
Science, Maths & Technology

How do ruminants digest?

...carbon dioxide which are eructed. The microbes start to break down the cellulose of the cell walls into sugars, thereby releasing other nutrients from inside the cells. The microbes use some of these nutrients for their own metabolism, and in doing so generate fatty acids, which the ruminant can absorb into its blood through the wall of the rumen and can use in its own...
Ancient Rain: Historic monsoons could help us respond to climate change
Nature & Environment

Ancient Rain: Historic monsoons could help us respond to climate change

...carbonate, soaking up the chemistry of the seawater surrounding them as they do this. The chemistry of the seawater that they lock into their shells can record the temperature of the seawater that they grew in and how fresh or salty the water was. At the end of their life cycle, these calcium carbonate shells remain intact, sink and are buried on the ocean floor. A wealth...
Supporting learners to become agents for sustainability
Education & Development

Supporting learners to become agents for sustainability

...footprint and to understand your place alongside others working collectively. Developing compassionate thinking through such pedagogies can nurture sustainable individuals in life and work. Examples of compassionate pedagogies: Poems, story-telling, art, music, listening with empathy, valuing learners’ contributions, building relationships, having the space and tools to...
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...carbon, but also argued that the price should actually be fairly low and we should very gradually deviate from a 'no policy' scenario and we should very modestly reduce greenhouse gas emissions initially but much more stringently. RH: So you were trying to prove that wrong? RT: I was trying to prove that wrong and I must admit that I completely failed there. After five,...
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...carbon forms of energy. RH: Well the public sector has made solar vastly cheaper, hasn’t it, that extraordinary and some people thought at the time, Quixotic ambition from the Germans for a million solar roofs in cloudy Northern Europe, but that unleashed a huge amount of private investment into R&D and then stimulated the Chinese to produce their solar panels, which...