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News reports over the past few weeks involving raw sewage and tank water contamination have brought new focus on what are, sadly, not-so-new problems.
The practice of dumping raw sewage just a few hundred yards off Bermuda's pristine beaches has been in effect for generations. But for many people, both here in Bermuda and abroad, it was real news.
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Dr. David Chapman – who recently earned his PhD through the Royal Holloway University of London following research on renewable energy and its role in sustainable development in small island states — is continuing to share the results of his studies in order to help to positively focus the current developmental trajectory of Bermuda and other similar nations and territories.
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The US Consulate will tomorrow [22 April] screen two environmental documentaries as part of the annual Earth Day celebrations.
The first features a park in Cairo, one of the most populated cities in the world, which was created out of a 500-year-old dump and the second focuses on green energy.
The documentary features the FedEx distribution centre in California, which uses clean solar energy to provide 80 percent of its energy.
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which pools the efforts of scientists around the globe, has begun releasing draft chapters from its latest assessment, and, for the most part, the reading is as grim as you might expect. We are still on the road to catastrophe without major policy changes.
But there is one piece of the assessment that is surprisingly, if conditionally, upbeat: Its take on the economics of mitigation.
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Interesting article from BBC News dated December 4th 2013, looking at how the energy we produce underpins pretty much everything we do and concluding that the UK's energy mix is set to change dramatically over the next 20 years.
By 2030, The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) expects renewables to be by far the biggest source of energy used in electricity generation in the UK, making up about 40% of the overall mix.
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