Did you miss Rob Socolow’s Beyond Carbon Neutral Seminar Series talk on March 15? Watch Rob Socolow’s talk on YouTube. View the slides (PDF: 1.8MB) Abstract The extraordinary progress recently in wind and solar power, as well as batteries, brings into view an alternative future for the global energy system, with little use of fossil…

Did you miss Whendee Silver’s Beyond Carbon Neutral Seminar Series talk, “The Climate Change Mitigation Potential of Waste Conversion for Soil Carbon Sequestration” on February 22? View the presentation slides (PDF: 2.8MB). Listen to the audio (MP3: 32MB) from the presentation. Abstract The fields of ecology and biogeochemistry hold tremendous potential to contribute to our…

Did you miss John DeCicco’s Beyond Carbon Neutral Seminar Series talk, “Biofuels vs. Biodiversity and the Need to Think Beyond Carbon Neutral” on February 8? His slides are downloadable below. Download Biofuels vs. Biodiversity slides (PDF: 4MB) About the Talk Just over a decade ago, the United States gave a big boost to biofuels with…

A team of Beyond Carbon Neutral researchers has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for a research proposal related to work based on preliminary BCN seed funding. This project aims to promote carbon capture and storage technologies within coal-fired plant infrastructure and demonstrate economically viable CO2 storage opportunities. Precast technology developed from…

John Yaeger/Daily By Zayna Syed, The Michigan Daily Talk of carbon dioxide in U.S. politics usually revolves around how to reduce its emission into the atmosphere. However, this narrative was rebuked by entrepreneur Bernard David, founder of the Global CO2 Initiative, who spoke about how to turn carbon dioxide from an environmental liability into an…

This interdisciplinary seminar series brings leading researchers to campus in order to introduce faculty and students to atmospheric carbon dioxide removal and its associated opportunities, challenges and research needs. Entitled “Climate Change Mitigation: Moving Beyond Carbon Neutral,” this unique set of seminars is co-hosted by the university’s Energy Institute, its School of Environment and Sustainability…