Found 11 results tagged with 'Stories'
Guest Blogs
Details Transition Engineering has been featured on other websites as guest blogs and articles. This collection provides some inspirational reading.Sailing to Sustainability
Details Where are we actually going? Who is steering the ship? Do we have a map?Details Does it ever feel like we are all on a sinking ship? NASA Climate Scientist, Dr. James Hansen, recently said that for the last 30 years we have been going in totally the wrong direction.How does Transition Engineering change that?
New Approach
Details The future of our civilization is at risk. We need a "New Approach". Are you a member of the brethren of the New Approach?Electric Vehicle Policy
Details Government policies that "support", "encourage" or "incentivize" people to purchase an EV are not the most efficient approach for transition to sustainable transportation.The Perspective Shift
Details How do you know if you are looking at the problem the right way? We all know that the project of transition will require new ideas, new technologies, new operations, new economics... But doesn't all of this start by getting the problem definition right? The future is not like the past. TE offers the skill of shifting perspective.Understand The Con
Details In Transition Engineering, one of the 7 steps of the methodology is to interrogate the scenarios about future technologies, policies or behaviour changes. This is a challenging engineering effort where we try to apply analytical and scientific evidence to things that most people take on belief and imbue with hope. Maybe our analysis can't convince believers in the hydrogen economy or carbon capture and storage that these things are not worth time and investment. But the main point of the exercise is for the Transition Engineer to understand the con and to pick up tools and move on.Pop the Hydrogen Bubble
Details If you are an engineer who is intrigued by the idea of Green Hydrogen as a part of the Energy Transition, then you need to learn more about it. Imagine that you have the job of making some energy supply system work for an energy service. Go through all the different ideas - including discovering a Shift Project - that's right innovating. Carry out a Strategic Analysis of the different ideas. You will find that the hydrogen ideas simply and plainly are not feasible. Do whatever you can to get your head and others out of the hydrogen bubble.Outrage
Details 350.org, March for Science, Student's Strike4Climate, Extinction RebellionThe volume is increasing.
How does Transition Engineering fit in?
Is 2020 the Last Stand?
Details Sorry - that is a depressing way to start the new year. I should be wishing you all a Happy New Year. But I found myself reflecting on reaching 2020 and how much change there has been in the engineering professions in response to the science of global warming, species loss, habitat destruction, resource scarcity and social inequity.What does Climate Action look like for Engineers?
Details The world is the way it is because we are good at what we do. But the world is the way it is because of way more powerful forces than good engineering - Power and specifically the Corrupting Power of Enormous Accumulating WealthWhat can Engineers do about climate change?