World Engineering Day: Rethinking how we grow, share and consume food to reach zero hunger
Dr Pablo Juliano has spent his professional life thinking about how food engineering can improve the world.
Tag: sustainability
Sustainability is a practice that presumes that resources are limited, and should be used conservatively and wisely with a view to long-term priorities and consequences.
Sustainable engineering is the process of designing or operating systems such that they use energy and resources at a rate that does not compromise the natural environment or the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
World Engineering Day: Working together to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
A successful sustainable development agenda requires partnerships between governments, the private sector and communities.
Cheaper, greener energy storage the focus of new $12 million research hub
A $12 million facility, the Australian Research Council Research Hub for Integrated Energy Storage Solutions was launched yesterday at UNSW ...
World Engineering Day: Taking action on climate change
As greenhouse gas levels continue to climb, climate change is occurring at much higher rates than anticipated, and its effects ...
World Engineering Day: Finding water engineering solutions in Iraq
O’Malley doesn’t work in the most glamorous of fields, but it’s his work on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure ...
World Engineering Day: Delivering clean and affordable energy
Energy is central to nearly every major challenge and opportunity the world faces today – and engineers are crucial to ...
8 practical ways to add more green to city landscapes
Micro-doses of nature benefit our cities and our communities. Researchers share how to incorporate more natural features into our urban ...
Bushfire mitigation: “Tackling climate change must be number one” says engineer
"To prioritise other goals over this urgent environmental issue would be like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic."
WEC 2019: Creating a future fuelled by clean energy
As the world’s population rises, cities grow and technology advances, finding new and sustainable sources of energy will become vital ...
WEC 2019: “We can’t build a better world without a better construction industry”
Matt Gough’s keynote at the World Engineers Convention focused on how and why the construction industry must move to be ...
