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Paul Bulla: How Urban Waste Is Powering Rural Sustainability

Paul Bulla Comcor Environmental Limited
September 03, 2014
The term “sustainability” is used more and more in urban settings today. With cities expanding, buildings reaching new heights and global populations exploding, it’s logical to implement environmentally responsible initiatives to dispose of the wastes these lifestyles generate. But what we don’t hear much about is the importance of sustainability after disposing of these wastes. Quite often, final disposal occurs in massive landfills, where waste is left to slowly decompose for many years.
 
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Dr. Dan Wicklum: Environmental Innovation in Canada’s Oil Sands

Dr Dan Wicklum Cosia
August 28, 2014
Science and innovation have played a key role in the development of Canada’s oil sands resources from the very beginning. The first scientific assessment of the oil sands was conducted in 1848, more than 150 years ago. Since then, the spirit of innovation and the application of science and technology have allowed Canada to become a world leader in the responsible production of unconventional resources like the oil sands.
 
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Industrial Internet Helps the Trains Run on Time

August 25, 2014
The morning commute is primed for innovative disruption, whether you’re spending hours sitting in traffic jams to stuck inside a jam-packed subway car. SkyTran, an elevated transit system that’s being developed in partnership with NASA, aims to make commuting hassles a thing of the past by zipping passengers around in futuristic-looking driverless pods suspended high above the ground.
 

Energy Efficiency — Malaysia’s Future

August 22, 2014

“There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.”

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Trawling for Big Insight in the ‘Industrial Data Lake’

August 15, 2014
You’d need to hide yourself under a pretty large rock to avoid hearing about Big Data these days. From NASA to Netflix, organizations of all sorts and sizes are taking advantage of larger-than-life data sets to power everything from lunar modeling to color-pattern analysis.
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Lorenzo Simonelli: Fostering a More Sustainable Africa

Lorenzo Simonelli GE
August 12, 2014
Following the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit last week, all eyes are turned to Africa, one of the world’s fastest-growing regions. As economic reports predict acceleration in growth, the sustainability of this growth is becoming an increasingly pressing issue.
 
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America’s Tentative Embrace of Africa as Investment Partner

August 07, 2014
Africa is ascendant, but when will America recognize it?
 

Africa’s economic outlook as a whole presents one of the most promising growth stories of anywhere in the world, yet the U.S. remains under-invested in the continent relative to other regions. When you read a headline about Africa in the paper, it’s still more likely to talk about conflict or disease than opportunity.
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Shari Berenbach: Bringing Energy to Africa’s Rural Underserved

Shari Berenbach U S African Development Foundation
August 07, 2014
For many of us, it’s difficult to imagine life without access to electricity — and harder still to consider the many ways that energy transforms our daily lives.
 
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John Dineen: A Healthier Africa is Emerging

John Dineen GE
August 05, 2014
Delivering high-quality healthcare in Africa is one of the most pressing challenges facing the continent today. Across many parts of Africa, access to appropriate healthcare facilities (hospitals and clinics) and qualified healthcare expertise (doctors, nurses and skilled healthcare workers) is limited.
 

The numbers are sobering: While only 15 percent of the world’s population lives in Africa, a quarter of the world’s disease burden — a metric used to assess the impact of diseases — rests on the shoulders of the continent.
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Alstom Accepts GE’s Updated Offer

June 23, 2014
Alstom’s board of directors accepted GE’s updated offer to acquire the power and grid businesses of the French industrial group for $13.5 billion (€12.35 billion) on Saturday. The deal includes three joint-ventures: in grid technology, renewable energy, and global nuclear power and French steam power.
The acquisition, the largest in GE’s history, will create 1,000 new jobs in France, preserve local decision making, provide the French government with access to nuclear steam turbine technology and support Alstom’s train signaling business.
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