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  • Finance: The end is nigh
    Ian Purdy

    By now you are probably fed up with the constant stream of negative financial news that is dominating our news media. Every day some new statistic is paraded as further evidence that the ‘end is nigh’.  The western world has enjoyed a rather large debt-fuelled party over the past few years and the ‘morning after’ has finally arrived. The bad news is that the hang-over is likely to persist for some time.

  • Environmental Engineering: Masdar City—Engineering Community
    Peter Brown

    At the time of writing, construction has begun on Masdar City in the United Arab Emirates. Masdar City is planned to be the world’s first carbon neutral and zero waste city. The city is being built from scratch with the aim of accommodating 50,000 permanent residents and 40,000 commuters. The project is an extremely bold move with many companies and research organizations involved and a budget reaching US$22 Billion. The city will use cutting edge technology to harness energy from solar, wind, geothermal, and hydrogen sources. There will also be a big focus on reusing wastewater. The result of all this technology means that landfills will be a thing of the past and the city’s contribution to atmospheric carbon dioxide will effectively be zero.

  • Business: Robin Hood Ethics
    Nick Duke

    For a decade before working with TSCF my job was software development. At points it was a full time job, at other times it fitted around other things in life - especially student work and theological study. Unfortunately, no one in my family went into the business world and my undergrad degree in Science didn’t help me much either.

  • Accountancy: Serving God... one tax return at a time?!?
    Jeromy Meerman

    I recently came across the following accounting firm slogan: "Serving HIM by serving You... one tax return at a time". To people who haven't considered how accounting can serve God this may seem a really strange statement. Is God really interested in tax returns? Can you really serve God by helping others prepare their accounts? This accounting firm clearly thinks so and so do I. Let me explain some reasons why. This will require us to reconsider some basic accounting concepts.

  • Environmental Engineering: Engineering and Environmental Legislation
    Peter Brown

    One of the most important aspects of engineering is the natural environment. From this environment comes all our natural resources which provide the building blocks for most of the materials we use in engineering construction.