Sustainable food: the Cool Farm Tool and cracking the nut of agricultural emissions

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Agricultural emissions account for about 15 per cent of global greenhouse gases, but farming practices and the range of emissions has made it difficult for farmers to tackle them. But what an easy to use tool to calculate them was made available online for farmers to download ?

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The future of manufacturing: is it going small-scale?

Textile manufacturing could be portable

Globalised manufacturing today involves large-scale manufacturing at a handful of strategic locations around the world, but in a carbon and cash-constrained world are we going to see a return to local, small-scale manufacturing?

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Swift, smooth and silent: Delta Motorsport’s electric E-4 Coupé

Delta Motorsports’ E-4 Coupé

When Michael Faraday designed the first homopolar electric motor in 1821, even he may have been surprised that a similar principle today would be capable of pushing a production sports car from 0-60 in under five seconds, but then he hadn’t met the guys behind Delta Motorsport.

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Cradle to Cradle: From Revelation to Revolution

GreenWise asks: How can we make things truly sustainable? Steven Ware, architect and author, shares the methodology in Cradle to Cradle, an authoritative book and now also a label, that shows business how to make products truly eco-efficient. It’s powerful stuff for planet, people and profit.

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