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Rescooped by Stephane Bilodeau from Sustain Our Earth onto Développement durable et efficacité énergétique |
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A report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Office of Energy Projects says that, in 2012, the capacity for renewable energy electrical generation accounted for almost 50% of all new installations for energy projects in the United States. ...
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...."Our global engineering team has chosen to focus our current efforts on integrating sustainability concepts into the engineering curriculum. We chose to focus on this not only because of its importance, but also because it sustainability is an already recognized and widely accepted concept which is very much lacking from our curriculum. We are also aware of other Universities in Canada where sustainability has been widely incorporated into the engineering curriculum." AN : the U of WIndsor in Canada incorporates the concept of sustainability into its learning modules and training. The earlier the concept get incorporated into psyche of those who have a reasonable chance of implementing the concepts in building, design , planning etc , the better. Good definition and diagram of sustainability. Via Arno Neumann Delete the scoop?
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The amount of renewable energy produced in the U.S. last year was slightly less than the global average of 15%, meaning that America is not too far off the mark compared to the rest of the world. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change has set a worldwide goal of 30% renewable energyby the year 2030, but they currently remain pessimistic about the ability of countries to achieve that goal, and believe that there could be at least a nine-percentage point deficit between reality and their goal.