article thumbnail

Gas sensor network provides early wildfire detection

Envirotec Magazine

The “solar-powered digital nose” in situ. The first live demonstration of the group’s Silvanet system of solar-powered gas sensors was recently conducted successfully in a forest near Berlin, says the firm. By adding additional sensors, the network can also be used to monitor tree health and growth.

article thumbnail

Mutual credit in Africa: interview with Will Ruddick of Grassroots Economics

Low Impact

And regular usage – about 2000 active traders per week. And some schemes in South Africa too? A big focus is on building social work / public food / training in permaculture and agroforestry etc. Do you think these ideas will spread more rapidly in Africa, Asia and Latin America? It could be amazingly powerful.

Africa 95
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Green light: Extreme E to race in former Scottish coal mine

Business Green

Opencast coal mine to stage electric off-road rallying series before transformation into pumped hydro storage plant and wind farm Extreme E has this week confirmed the former Glenmuckloch opencast coal mine in Dumfries and Galloway will host the likes of Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg, Jenson Button at its Hydro X Prix on 13 and 14 May.

article thumbnail

? Alterra’s $30B bridge for climate financing #176

Climate Tech VC

In deals, major funding includes $116M for hydrogen-powered aviation, $44M for sustainability software, and $75M in project finance investment for SAFs. In new funds, energy transition infrastructure is bringing in the big bucks with Brookfield's record-breaking $28B infra fund and Antin's $1.2B sustainable infra fund.

article thumbnail

How Food Waste is Degrading the Environment

The Environmental Blog

All of this amounts to a waste of the energy, water, and land needed to produce food. Greener solutions are needed because of the trend toward more environmentally friendly buying and the rising GHG emissions produced by the e-commerce industry. Monitoring the storage temperatures of stored goods requires the use of technologies.

Waste 221
article thumbnail

Wildfires are getting worse, and so is the deadly smoke they bring with them

Grist

Lead can get into particulate matter when a fire burns forest trees or other plants that have taken it up after it was released into the air or deposited in the soil, usually as a result of decades-old car emissions or industrial processes. Enforcing the use of masks requires monitoring by the state, for example.

Soil 98
article thumbnail

On the Future of our Food

Mr. Sustainability

Soil degradation. Food is basically a combination of energy, water and nutrients. Some plants and micro-organisms can make food ‘out of thin air’ by simply rearranging carbon, water and oxygen molecules using energy from the Sun. Carbs are our fuel, protein and fat are the building blocks of our cells. Deforestation.