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Energy Transition Engineering Course
Date February 18, 2019Details Enrol now for ENME405 or ENME605 for Masters credit. An on-line option will be available for distance learners.Link to Canterbury University for enrolment in the course
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18February2019 |
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Past entries |
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12November2018 |
Seminar: The Big DODate November 12, 2018DetailsProfessor Susan Krumdieck
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09October2018 |
Conference: The Big DoDate October 09, 2018Details That was Amazing!Just a week before the IPCC released the report on what we are in for and what we risk by running the planetary thermodynamics into instability - we met, and flipped our perspective and came up with a spectacularly disruptive Big DO. |
02July2018 |
Metropole Grenoble TransitionDate July 02, 2018Details A major forward-looking research program is being developed with the City of Grenoble, the universities, and local companies. As part of the development phase of the program, a workshop was held to work through the Transition Engineering vision of the future and discoveries of disruptive opportunities as carried out by Jeremy Pascal and Susan Krumdieck. |
15March2018 |
University Course in Transition EngineeringDate March 15, 2018Details A full semester course in Transition Engineering at Munich University of Applied SciencesA final year elective taught in English using the new text Transition Engineering , Taylor & Francis-CRC Press MUAS Professor Susan Krumdieck, MUAS Fellow |
09February2018 |
New Report on SolutionsDate February 09, 2018Details GATE has supported the "Future Climate - Engineering Solutions" (FC-ES) project since our foundation in 2014. |
09December2017 |
EROI of OilDate December 09, 2017Details Last century's oil was mobile liquid in porous source rock where it had concentrated after being thermally broken down from the biomass deposited more than 50 million years ago. This century's oil is being mined from tar deposits or blown out of solid shale. |
08September2017 |
1st International GATE ConferenceDate September 08, 2017Details GATE 2018 Breaks new ground with global "no-travel" designGATE didn't want people to have to fly to the conference. Thus we organized an e-conference with venues in New Zealand and UK, and live webfeed to people around the world. We reduced the greenhouse gas emissions by more than 80% AND we all slept better. Other benefits included much higher attendance, and not having to go through airport security. Read Article on IMechE |
18July2017 |
Energy Transition Engineering CourseDate July 18, 2017Details ENME405 Energy Systems Engineering offered at University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand incorporates a topical coverage of Transition Engineering. As part of the final examination 2017 the students research and prepare an advice to the Minister of Transport regarding the government policy aimed at reducing carbon emissions by "encouraging purchase of electric vehicles".Link http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/engineering... |
06March2016 |
3rd Science and Energy SeminarDetails Science & Energy 2016: 50 scientists and engineers, historians and economists came together for a week of intense discussion about how to carry out scenarios and how to interpret results of scenarios.Date March 06, 2016Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJVon80... |
02October2015 |
InTIME Workshop Series: Ideas Beyond TargetsDetails A series of workshops ahead of the COP21 Paris meeting on Climate Change.
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10June2014 |
Engineers Without Borders New ZealandDetails Engineering Change 2014 - "Transition Engineering: the Job of Change"The theme of the conference involves understanding the engineering ethics of climate change. The presentation is available on YouTube.Date June 10, 2014Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd29e_0... |
15November2010 |
Signs of Change National e-ConferenceDetails 40 Presenters from around New Zealand gave their experience with emerging sustainability. The first e-conference was designed, tested and run as a Shift Project in the transition of the wicked problem of conference travel.Date November 15, 2010Link www.signsofchange.org.nz/ |