USA Corn vs. Brazil Sugarcane
South America is becoming a promising continent for renewable energies. Brazil in particular is doing well with biofuels, being the world second largest producer after the United States. The USA has become a major importer of Brazilian sugarcane ethanol, designated as “advanced” by the US Environmental Protection Agency, becoming a competitor for the local biofuel [...]
Water Cooperation for Sustainable Development
Special Guest Editorial Water is fundamental for life and survival on Earth. The use of water has intensified dramatically over recent decades and in many places we are now at a point where water shortages, water quality degradation and aquatic ecosystem destruction are seriously limiting the prospects for socio-economic and political stability as well as [...]
Renewables in Italy
As part of Visualizing Energy | Renewables in Action, this infographic is the first in a series on renewables in different countries around Europe.
Desert Rivers, Mexico
Desert Rivers form like tree-like figures in Baja California, Mexico. This natural phenomenon happens during certain periods of the year. Photography by Adriana Franco. To submit an image, please contact: Laura Beltrán Villamizar Photo | Art Editor laura@revolve-magazine.com
U.S. Energy Policy – Ignoring the “Existential Threat”
Rather than focus on decreasing carbon emissions and addressing the environmental changes that are very seriously affecting our world, the United States has repeatedly continued to look for other more evasive “existential” enemies, writes Charles Mahoney. It’s the End of the World As We Know It In the late 1980s, the band R.E.M released a [...]
Zagtouli and the Sun of West Africa
Burkina Faso will host the biggest solar power plant in West Africa; the largest ever built in Sub-Saharan Africa. The EU will support this massive project, as confirmed by EU Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs, during the Conference of African Energy Ministers and All Africa Energy Week held in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa [...]
Q&A: Juan Luis Moraza
Nominated by the gallery Espacio Mínimo, Juan Luis Moraza won the Audermars Piguet prize for his project called “Arules” shown at ARCO Madrid 2013 (February 13-17). Laura Beltrán Villamizar asks the Basque sculptor about contemporary art in Spain, his sources of inspiration, and the future of art. How did you start and what marked your [...]
Sustainable M2M Water Solutions
Mobile networks are everywhere. Increased coverage in urban centers and rural areas is due to the fact that mobile ownership has grown in developing countries as everybody wants to stay connected and the handsets have percolated to even those places where there is a lack of critical infrastructure for access to water for example. Machine-to-machine [...]
New York From Above
Russian photographer Sergey Semenov shows New York City’s Central Park by combining a group of 360-degree panoramic shots taken from a helicopter. The panorama was made under AirPano project, a non-commercial project focused on the creation of high-resolution 3D aerial panoramas. Its mission is to show the beauty of the world from the air to [...]
Dangshan: Waste-in, Energy-out
The use of renewable energy for electricity generation has been increasing in response to growing public concern over air pollution and climate change issues in Asia, writes Rajnish Ahuja. A sustainable future will come with the transition to clean energy resources. Biomass power plays a part as a renewable energy source. It uses biological material [...]
