News tagged with sustainable economic growth

Hazy days: Berkeley lab tackles pollution in Mongolia

(Phys.org) -- Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are known for designing high-efficiency cookstoves for Darfur and Ethiopia. Now they are applying their expertise to the windswept ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cities fail to recognize full potential of smart technologies

Cities are wasting the potential of smart technologies by failing to realise the value of their hidden infrastructure and digital assets.

Technology / Other

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

World needs global food system overhaul: report

The world needs fundamental changes to the global food system to feed the expanding population, according to a British government report out Monday on how to feed the planet until 2050.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 24, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Fossil-fuel use and feeding world cause greatest environmental impacts: UNEP panel

How the world is fed and fueled will in large part define development in the 21st century as one that is increasingly sustainable or a dead end for billions of people.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

To be sustainable, China must implement bold innovations

Complex issues have hampered China's environmental protection efforts, but bold innovations can help it become a global sustainability leader, says a noted Michigan State University environmental scientist.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 01, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 1

IT to generate 5.8 million new jobs by 2013: IDC

Information technology will be an employment machine, generating 5.8 million new jobs in the coming four years, according to International Data Corporation (IDC) research released.

Technology / Business

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 3