Category Archives: What We’re Reading

Renaissance Man’s Wine Reborn: Inside Leonardo da Vinci’s Vineyard Using DNA tech, researchers replanted the maestro’s Milan vineyard; a wine will be released for the 500th anniversary of his death.  (Wine Spectator)

Wineries Are Cutting Energy Use One Bottle at a Time Making and marketing wine requires lots of energy. Producing and transporting glass bottles (empty and full), cooling wineries and

Champagne Vending Machine Pops Up In a Philly Hotel Lobby Philadelphia’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel, on Broad Street across from City Hall, last week installed a machine in its grand lobby that dispenses

Flipping the Value of Plastic Waste on its Head In January 2018 China stopped buying recycled plastic scrap that was not 99.5% pure. This seemingly abrupt turnaround shone a

Case Study: How Spoetzl Brewery Now Generates Energy From Its Wastewater Treatment System ADI Systems (an Evoqua brand) designed and built a 1.1 million gal (4,200 m3) low-rate anaerobic ADI-BVF reactor to treat Spoetzl Brewery’s wastewater. (Craft Brewing Business)