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                    [Title] => Designing industrial symbiosis
                    [Summary] => 

The field of industrial ecology (IE) has grown rapidly in the two decades or so since the seminal paper “Strategies for Manufacturing” by Frosch and Gallopoulos appeared in Scientific American in 1989.

[DatePublished] => 2013-03-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135735 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1668063 [AuthorName] => Raymond R. Tan, Ph.D. [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 858159 [Title] => Crossing borders [Summary] =>

A few months ago I found myself (a chemical engineer with a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering) reading a 40-year old article from the Journal of Theoretical Biology in preparation for a meeting with a colleague, Krista Yu, from our School of Economics at De La Salle University.

[DatePublished] => 2012-10-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135735 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1668063 [AuthorName] => Raymond R. Tan, Ph.D. [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 782176 [Title] => The Ph.D. student as a research apprentice [Summary] =>

One of my former undergraduate students (and a current RA at our Center for Engineering and Sustainable Development Research at De La Salle University) recently secured a scholarship to do Ph.D.

[DatePublished] => 2012-03-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135735 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1668063 [AuthorName] => Raymond R. Tan, Ph.D. [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 777658 [Title] => A simple lesson in bioenergy arithmetic [Summary] =>

In an article published in 2005 in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Sanderine Nonhebel of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands estimated that if all of the world’s energy requirements were to be met with bioenergy under conservative agricultural yield estimates, nearly two hectares of land would be required for every person on the planet.

[DatePublished] => 2012-02-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135735 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1668063 [AuthorName] => Raymond R. Tan, Ph.D. [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 764536 [Title] => 'Chemical cybernetics' and the problem of climate change [Summary] =>

The devastation caused by “Sendong” in Mindanao last month serves as a grim reminder of just how disaster-prone the Philippines really is.

[DatePublished] => 2012-01-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135735 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1668063 [AuthorName] => Raymond R. Tan, Ph.D. [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 733952 [Title] => Algal bloom [Summary] =>

Having been recently involved on a research project, I asked myself “What has a mechanical engineer got to do with microalgae?”

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135735 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1135758 [AuthorName] => Aristotle T. Ubando, M.Sc. [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 722146 [Title] => 'Chemical cybernetics' and the problem of climate change (Part 1 of 3) [Summary] =>

It is becoming clear as 2012 approaches that the Kyoto Protocol, which was the international community’s attempt to stabilize the atmospheric greenhouse gas levels through a combination of emission cuts and various economic instruments...

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135735 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1668063 [AuthorName] => Raymond R. Tan, Ph.D. [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 719780 [Title] => What earning a Ph.D. degree really means [Summary] =>

When I was a Ph.D. student on research attachment at the University of Portsmouth over a decade ago, a friend of mine, who was then that university’s director for international recruitment, took me to a local pub for a little bit of “cultural exposure,” British style.

[DatePublished] => 2011-08-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135735 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1668063 [AuthorName] => Raymond R. Tan, Ph.D. [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 705469 [Title] => Climate risk as a constraint on alternative energy [Summary] =>

The role played by low-carbon energy sources in the global struggle to mitigate anthropogenic climate change is already well understood.

[DatePublished] => 2011-07-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135735 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1668063 [AuthorName] => Raymond R. Tan, Ph.D. [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 628539 [Title] => Water resource availability as a sustainability issue [Summary] => Climate change is expected to affect global freshwater resources as precipitation patterns change, glaciers melt and sea levels rise. [DatePublished] => 2010-11-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135735 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1438886 [AuthorName] => Kathleen B. Aviso, Ph.D. [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) ) )
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