Going circular doesn’t have to mean buying expensive technology. African manufacturers can innovate by learning from what already exists.
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The pace of US business investment has fallen by about 50% over the past 50 years. Idle capacity, not cautious executives, explains the decline, research suggests.
Acid rain and metals from power plants, vehicles and industries reached remote mountain lakes for years. Evidence from those lakes today shows the success of the Clean Air Act.
Australia’s car factories lie silent after the industry foundered. These factories could be used to help solve a huge problem: how to build more housing.
Factories producing non-stick coatings for cookware aren’t properly limiting emissions of one of the most potent greenhouse gases, our research suggests.
Manufacturing firms exposed to increased Chinese competition employed fewer female production workers than men.
South Africa should ensure that changes to energy efficient vehicles is done in a way that creates jobs and protects workers.
The government’s ‘levelling up’ agenda seems to be taking no account of coming automation.
Custom fabrication involves taking measurements, choosing tools, deciding on sequences of steps and ordering from a menu of materials. AIs under development promise to take humans out of the loop.
A manufacturing engineer describes the concept for a technology that could lead to more efficient production – and perhaps a tool to revive US manufacturing.
Food is not waste until it’s wasted.
Why we’re developing a soft robot inspired by an elephant’s trunk.
Machines by Rahul Jain reveals how some industries turn bodies into commodities.
Data centers are taking over the factories where workers once processed checks, baked bread and printed Bibles. What will the rise of the information-based economy mean for American cities?
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Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University
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Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of Sheffield
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University of Salford
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Assistant Professor of Sustainability Studies, Roosevelt University
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Research Fellow, Economics of Trade, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Associate Professor of Agri-Food Trade and Policy, University of Guelph
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Professor of Sociology, University of Essex
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Research Fellow in Economics, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Visiting Researcher, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol
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Senior Scientist, Group Atmospheric Modelling and Remote Sensing, ETH Zurich
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Associate Professor & Global Challenge Lead, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University; University of British Columbia
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Ph.D. Student in Environmental Science, University at Albany, State University of New York