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REEEP has been an longtime supporter of RETScreen – and recently they have released this interesting video where OpenEI interviews Greg Leng, RETScreen‘s creator. We wanted to share it here and tell our readers a bit more about this useful tool. RETScreen is a free, simple-to-use decision support tool to help decision makers and energy [...]
Currently there is a call to join the Post-2015 global consultation on energy! Alongside the vision of the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) initiative this is a call for collaboration on the most pressing issues we face today. As the world approaches 2015, the overall target date for achieving the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals), thinking [...]
Green ICT for Sustainable Consumption – a Responder Event
21 Jan 2013
by Denise Recheis - Category: News
While most of the REEEP team spend last week at Abu Dhabi’s WFES2013, I stayed here in Vienna and attended the RESPONDER Event Green ICT (Information and Communication Technology) for Sustainable Consumption (17th/18th of January). RESPONDER deals with potential political, social and economic contradictions between sustainable consumption and economic growth and tries to find links by getting [...]
The water, energy and food nexus connects three sectors that are closely related and interlinked- water security, energy security and food security. The nexus also takes into account that what is positive for one of these sectors might have a negative influence for another. At the end of the day it is a bargain, a [...]
Food waste: Disturbing findings by The Global Initiative on Food Losses and Waste Reduction
11 Jan 2013
by Denise Recheis - Category: News
Over the last few days foodwaste was an issue in the media again – every so often we all appear shocked when confronted with the facts but it seems the situation is not improving; while in one corner of the world people stuff themselves and waste perfectly fine food, in others parents are wondering every [...]
There were some problems last year for solar manufacturers: for example an oversupply problem. Evenso, good news is that 2012 actually witnessed a dramatic growth in the world’s use of solar power. Especially the amount of solar panels installed on rooftops in the U.S. soared in recent quarters. This is thanks to new innovative financing [...]
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