Category Archives: environment

Climate Change & Energy Policy – information links

Event publicity just launched and Information links The real risks posed by Fukushima: The Worst Problems In The World:  Could the collapse of the fuel pool at Fukushima Reactor #4 endanger the Northern Hemisphere? Nuclear industry executive Arnie Gundersen explains. Top Canadian … Continue reading

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Manufacturing, built in obsolescence and apprenticeships

When stuff is made to last forever, you’ll need an army of highly trained people to keep them maintained and repaired which would solve sustainability, unemployment and  poverty. So writes Gordon Ferguson, a keen community activist who has been coming to … Continue reading

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International Symposium: Climate Change & Energy Policy Post-Fukushima – What does the future hold?

Use our Online Booking Form  to find out more about the future of nuclear power following the Fukushima disaster? What impacts will this have on plans to reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change? Until now nuclear energy has been … Continue reading

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International Multi-Purpose Industrial Robots

Jim Heley’s talk on robotics  at our next event Yorkshire’s Manufacturing:  Our Future, Your Future … How can we transform our Region in to the UK Silicon Valley of Manufacturing? on Thursday 29th March will reveal startling stats about the global … Continue reading

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RAE Ingenious Transport EventFollow-up meeting notes: 26th January 2012

Transport event follow-up met to develop proposals from our RAE Ingenious funded Crowd Wise Transport event on 6th December 2011. As can be seen from our notes, two event groups merged to focus on their passion to improve information and … Continue reading

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Can you afford to Turbo-Charge your home?

With one event aim being to stimulate you, our audience,  our event experts have been beavering away to develop a question they believed would inspire you to rise to the challenge.  I think they’ve done just that with our revamped question … Continue reading

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Info links for our Housing Event

Housing Event, March 2012 presentations: “Playing the Grid”:   Virtual Power Plants, Tom Lipinski, Green Structures Ltd; Smart grids, Stuart Williams, Logica plc; Manufacturing & Mass Customisation to Retrofit UK Housing, Kevin Hardy, Paragon MMC; Option E: Government Policy, Green … Continue reading

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Crowd Wise Ingenious Project: Transport Event Report – 6th December 2011

It’s been quite a while since I’ve had the time or pleasure to write a newsletter, however brief, so I’m delighted to attach our Report on Crowd Wise Ingenious Transport event Sheffield 061211 for RAE Ingenious funded Transport event. PLUS a reminder … Continue reading

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The Green Thing …. So true……………!!

In the queue at the store, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. The woman apologized to him and explained, “We didn’t have the green … Continue reading

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Event Outcomes: RAE Ingenious Crowd Wise – Engineering Sustainable Transport

We started this Crowd Wise event with four small groups of roughly equal numbers. Working together we asked our participants to tackle the four key issues that we’d previously identified with our contributing engineers as follows: A:  Burning Issue:  We … Continue reading

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