ESG necessary for investment

ESG the new phrase for sustainability
Environment, Social and Governance. Without it investment is high risk.

How to get Ketchup out of a bottle

Could this transform blockages at key locations in the sewer network?

How to get ketchup out of a bottle..

Amusing but important - why business is a wholly owned subsidiary of nature: Natural Capital explained

Smarter Snow plough to reduce impact of weather on cities:

http://mashable.com/2013/12/17/smart-snowplow/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_source=rss&utm_reader=feedly&utm_content=buffer71d07&utm_medium=twitter



The idea is to pull together a much more detailed picture:

• GPS data, 
• is the plough in action, 
• is the anti lock system being activiated. 

This combined with weather,radar  and social media data gives a much better picture of actually what the weather is doing 

Creating Resilient Sewage treatment

Wetlands Transform a City’s Sewage Through a Bit of Solar Alchemy

Every evening, when the twilight sky casts its spell across Kolkata’s Eastern Metropolitan Bypass, motorists whizzing toward the airport can catch a glimpse of an eerie-looking expanse of water peeking from behind the area’s gaudy billboards along the city’s eastern fringe. Most have no idea that they’re looking at the lungs and kidneys of their city.

The East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW) are a key component of Kolkata’s waste-management resilience. Abutting this city of five million, the 12,500 hectare space, which includes about 4,000 hectares of sewage-fed bheries (fisheries), has managed to survive the onslaught of Kokata’s eastward urbanization. No more than one meter deep, this unique ecological zone’s sewage-fed aquaculture and garbage-fed horticulture provide the city with a natural waste recycling process not quite replicated anywhere else in the world. Indeed, it is the only sewage treatment “facility” that exists within the city limits of Kolkata, and offers a key element of redundancy to the city’s overtaxed waste-management systems.

http://100resilientcities.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/entry/wetlands-transform-a-citys-sewage-through-a-bit-of-solar-alchemy

If all the ice melted... a map from National Geographical

The full interactive map is here

The importance of Systems Engineering

http://www.raeng.org.uk/education/vps/pdf/RAE_Systems_Report.pdf

The importance of Systems Engineering

NASA specified and developed, at great expense, a

ball point pen that Apollo astronauts could use in

spacewhere gravity would not make the ink flow.

Russian cosmonauts used pencils.

Moral:specify what you want to achieve, not how to achieve it