Tag: Great Greenness
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How Do You Feed 9 Billion People?
In a paper appearing in Nature Climate Change, members of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project unveiled an all-encompassing modeling system that integrates multiple crop simulations with improved climate change models. AgMIP’s effort has produced new knowledge that better predicts global wheat yields while reducing political and socio-economic influences that can skew data and…
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Upping the Effectiveness of Your Green Home with Tinted Windows
Heat and solar energy seeps through windows into the home. The result? People seeking to escape the unbearable heat will crank up the air conditioning. As the air conditioning battles against the constant flow of heat in the house through the windows, energy is wasted.
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Microplastic Pollution Now Prevalent in Lakes
EPFL researchers have detected microplastic pollution in one of Western Europe’s largest lakes, Lake Geneva, in large enough quantities to raise concern. While studies in the ocean have shown that these small bits of plastic can be harmful to fish and birds that feed on plankton or other small waterborne organisms, the full extent of…
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A New Model for Testing Building Fabrics: Green Build Hub
This guest post about the launch of the Green Build Hub in the UK has been provided by David Thomas. Read about this location that tests experimental building materials and methodologies. In a green corner of the UK a new project is underway, called the Green Build Hub. The Green Build Hub will be the home of experimental building…