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The field of industrial ecology (IE) has grown rapidly in the two decades or so since the seminal paper “Strategies for Manufacturing” by Frosch and Gallopoulos appeared in Scientific American in 1989.

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A few months ago I found myself (a chemical engineer with a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering) reading a 40-year old article from the Journal of Theoretical Biology in preparation for a meeting with a colleague, Krista Yu, from our School of Economics at De La Salle University.

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One of my former undergraduate students (and a current RA at our Center for Engineering and Sustainable Development Research at De La Salle University) recently secured a scholarship to do Ph.D.

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In an article published in 2005 in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Sanderine Nonhebel of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands estimated that if all of the world’s energy requirements were to be met with bioenergy under conservative agricultural yield estimates, nearly two hectares of land would be required for every person on the planet.

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The devastation caused by “Sendong” in Mindanao last month serves as a grim reminder of just how disaster-prone the Philippines really is.

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Having been recently involved on a research project, I asked myself “What has a mechanical engineer got to do with microalgae?”

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It is becoming clear as 2012 approaches that the Kyoto Protocol, which was the international community’s attempt to stabilize the atmospheric greenhouse gas levels through a combination of emission cuts and various economic instruments...

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When I was a Ph.D. student on research attachment at the University of Portsmouth over a decade ago, a friend of mine, who was then that university’s director for international recruitment, took me to a local pub for a little bit of “cultural exposure,” British style.

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The role played by low-carbon energy sources in the global struggle to mitigate anthropogenic climate change is already well understood.

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The field of industrial ecology (IE) has grown rapidly in the two decades or so since the seminal paper “Strategies for Manufacturing” by Frosch and Gallopoulos appeared in Scientific American in 1989.

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A few months ago I found myself (a chemical engineer with a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering) reading a 40-year old article from the Journal of Theoretical Biology in preparation for a meeting with a colleague, Krista Yu, from our School of Economics at De La Salle University.

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One of my former undergraduate students (and a current RA at our Center for Engineering and Sustainable Development Research at De La Salle University) recently secured a scholarship to do Ph.D.

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In an article published in 2005 in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Sanderine Nonhebel of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands estimated that if all of the world’s energy requirements were to be met with bioenergy under conservative agricultural yield estimates, nearly two hectares of land would be required for every person on the planet.

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The devastation caused by “Sendong” in Mindanao last month serves as a grim reminder of just how disaster-prone the Philippines really is.

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Having been recently involved on a research project, I asked myself “What has a mechanical engineer got to do with microalgae?”

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It is becoming clear as 2012 approaches that the Kyoto Protocol, which was the international community’s attempt to stabilize the atmospheric greenhouse gas levels through a combination of emission cuts and various economic instruments...

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When I was a Ph.D. student on research attachment at the University of Portsmouth over a decade ago, a friend of mine, who was then that university’s director for international recruitment, took me to a local pub for a little bit of “cultural exposure,” British style.

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The role played by low-carbon energy sources in the global struggle to mitigate anthropogenic climate change is already well understood.

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