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Designing industrial symbiosis

By Raymond R. Tan, Ph.D. | March 14, 2013 - 12:00am

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 19...

Science and Environment

Crossing borders

By Raymond R. Tan, Ph.D. | October 11, 2012 - 12:00am

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...

Science and Environment

The Ph.D. student as a research apprentice

By Raymond R. Tan, Ph.D. | March 1, 2012 - 12:00am

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.

Science and Environment

A simple lesson in bioenergy arithmetic

By Raymond R. Tan, Ph.D. | February 16, 2012 - 12:00am

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...

Science and Environment

'Chemical cybernetics' and the problem of climate change

By Raymond R. Tan, Ph.D. | January 5, 2012 - 12:00am

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

Science and Environment

Algal bloom

By Aristotle T. Ubando, M.Sc. | October 6, 2011 - 12:00am

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

Science and Environment

'Chemical cybernetics' and the problem of climate change (Part 1 of 3)

By Raymond R. Tan, Ph.D. | September 1, 2011 - 12:00am

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...

Science and Environment

What earning a Ph.D. degree really means

By Raymond R. Tan, Ph.D. | August 25, 2011 - 12:00am

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...

Science and Environment

Climate risk as a constraint on alternative energy

By Raymond R. Tan, Ph.D. | July 14, 2011 - 12:00am

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

Science and Environment

Water resource availability as a sustainability issue

By Kathleen B. Aviso, Ph.D. | November 11, 2010 - 12:00am

Climate change is expected to affect global freshwater resources as precipitation patterns change, glaciers melt and sea levels rise.

Science and Environment