Smart Greenhouse: Efficiency and Ancestral Knowledge to Combat Climate Change
by Technological innovation and indigenous tradition can go hand in hand and provide a better quality of life to children and adults in Mapuche communities —who …
Category: Sustainable cities and communities
Affordable and clean energy / Applied Sciences / Climate action / Industry, innovation and infrastructure / News / Partnerships for the goals / Sustainable cities and communities
Why Emerging Economies also need Knowledge Transfer of Environmental Engineering
by How did you get involved in sustainability? Originally, I am an environmental chemist graduated from University of Copenhagen. My path into my current work is …
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Sorting Out India’s Mounting Waste Crisis
India’s economic growth story is remarkable: from a less than $500 billion economy at the turn of the millennium to the world’s third-largest economy with …
From Clean to Contaminated: Indian Rivers Call for Urgent Action
On a sun-drenched summer day, Vejle Ådal’s serene banks come alive with people strolling along its picturesque shores, casting their lines in tranquil waters, or …
Urbanism in Unexpected Places: Looking Beyond the Rural/Urban Divide
Urbanism as a concept often brings to mind ideas of large metropolitan centres that are densely populated, not only with people but also buildings, expansive …
Industry, innovation and infrastructure / Natural Sciences / News / Sustainable cities and communities
No such thing as waste: resource recovery and shifting perceptions
‘Out of sight, out of mind’ is a well-known expression, but one with pernicious effects in the context of waste. We’ve always done things a certain way. Things are made, used, and thrown away. But where do all these thrown-away things go? What do they become? What could they become? Our linear way of thinking and behaving is being increasingly criticised as landfills overflow, water supplies dry up, and air becomes unbreathable.
Industry, innovation and infrastructure / Natural Sciences / News / Sustainable cities and communities
No such thing as waste: resource recovery and shifting perceptions
‘Out of sight, out of mind’ is a well-known expression, but one with pernicious effects in the context of waste. We’ve always done things a …
What does success look like for the SDGs?
Governments, civil society actors such as large businesses, development consultancies and universities all have adopted the SDG framework and state that all future work will be carried out with them in mind. But what exactly are the SDGs? and are there any gaps in the SDG framework which hinders progress?
‘Are the UN Sustainable Development Goals nothing more than a Smiley scheme for business?’
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) of the 2030 Agenda officially came into force on 1 January 2016 succeeding the UN Millennium Development Goals. How can we make sure that the SDG’s trigger the needed action from all stakeholders? That was the challenge which the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV) and the Danish Science Journalists Association jointly put to the panellists at a conference held at the Novozymes complex in Bagsværd on Friday, 8th of March 2019.