Esteemed Harvard Professor Delivers Critically Important Talk on Nuclear Energy
Here’s another post on Joseph Lassiter (pictured) and his high-level treatment of nuclear power as a necessary ingredient in dealing with greenhouse gas emissions, and thus climate change. Dr. Lassiter is Senior Fellow, Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired at Harvard University. According to his website: “He focuses on one of the world’s most pressing problems: developing clean, secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable, low-cost energy all around the world. He studies how high-potential ventures attacking this problem are being financed and how their innovations are being brought to market in different parts of the world.” (more…)
Fast changing disruptive technologies have hit hard the manufacturing industry and are rapidly shaping the future of manufacturing. Operational technology and information technology are seeing drastic innovations, and the convergence of these two forces is pushing 
We live in the world where plastic can be found pretty much anywhere. More than often, people neglect the negative side-effects of plastic bottles. To make things even more troubling, we drink water from plastic bottles every day. This is a serious issue for not only was that water bottled long time ago, but it was stored and transported in a plastic container and potentially exposed to contamination due to the change of temperature. Listed below are several reasons why we shouldn’t drink bottled water. 
According to the Writer’s Almanac: 
The election of Donald Trump as U.S. President has generated considerable hand-wringing among environmentalists, and it seems to become more intense with each passing nomination of a right-wing extremist to a cabinet position, and each tweet from the president-elect himself suggesting something blatantly unconstitutional. 
A colleague in New Zealand enthusiastically shared this post on his Facebook page, then emailed it to everyone he knows:
I’ve written several times over the past seven years about 
Frequent commenter Frank Eggers pushes back on my theory that the peak oil theory is wrong. He writes, Rather, the time table is much longer than originally thought. Instead of being 20 years or so, it may be 200 years or so. Obviously that has significant implications.
A colleague in Oklahoma writes: Thought you might find this 
For companies in many industries, finding the best wastewater treatment system for remote sites is like winning the lottery – it’s what you want, but doing it isn’t always easy. Working in fragile ecosystems and extreme environments where water is at a premium, companies have to ensure often complex and difficult effluents are treated effectively, efficiently and economically. 
