Acre+Care is a revolutionary system that uses direct investment to protect the Amazon Rain Forest through e-commerce. Think Google Earth meets Kiva. Through Acre+Care, donors can help protect an acre of concession land in Peru. It was developed at Wake Forest in collaboration with […]
A project supervised by CEES Board Member Dr. Abdou Lachgar just won a $145,665 grant from the Biofuels Center of North Carolina. The grant will help Wake’s Terrafinity project develop a method that facilitates the conversion of waste into biodiesel fuel. This project and the […]
By Office of Communications and External Relations A new polymer-based solar-thermal device is the first to generate power from both heat and visible sunlight – an advance that could shave the cost of heating a home by as much as 40 percent. Geothermal add-ons for […]
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I participated in a sustainability symposium that was international in flavor a few weeks ago, and one of the things that became clear was that there are myriad cultural variations on what it means to be sustainable. The questions spiraled around the room: What does sustainability mean […]
Overview of the Wake Forest University Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability (CEES) The Wake Forest University Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CEES) is an interdisciplinary center that aims to promote critical thinking and effective action across the fields of Renewable Energy, Social Influence, […]
The CENTER FOR ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY (CEES) at Wake Forest is generating new teams of researchers and new ways of thinking to addressing some of society’s greatest problems, and are engaging the broader community on issues of energy, environment, and sustainability.
Metals and trace elements leached from surfaceimpounded CCW have caused dramatic and costly impacts to aquatic life for decades.Effects range from acute mortality to chronic, debilitating toxicity as shown here in this 1980photograph of fish from Belews Lake, NC, afflicted by selenium poisoning (v-shaped spines).Selenium […]
A solid electrolyte known as LiPON, was developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is currently used in microbatteries. At Wake Forest University, we have been studying computer models of related crystals which are composed of mobile Li ions in a framework composed of phosphorus, oxygen, […]