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Province, universities and businesses to collaborate on circular South Holland 05 April 2018
The province of South Holland is to collaborate with industry, the three LDE universities Leiden Delft and Erasmus, and the University of Wageningen i...
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The superpowers of new critical raw materials 29 March 2018
Cars, wind turbines, solar panels and smartphones. ‘Critical’ raw materials like platinum or cobalt are used in all the technologies that are essentia...
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New lecture series on sustainability 14 February 2018
What are the implications for life on Earth of the declining numbers of insects? How does the ever increasing stream of of energy and material flowing...
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Stans Prize 2017 for Davide De Mauro 29 January 2018
The ‘Stans Prize 2017' (for the best thesis, report or article produced by a CML student) has been awarded to Davide De Mauro. Other CML prizes were ...
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Area studies of the Minor Sustainable Development in four countries 26 January 2018
Every January, students of the Minor Sustainable Development have the opportunity to put what they’ve learned over the last few months into practice i...
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Municipalities as testing grounds in sustainability 24 January 2018
Researching as a student how you can make your own student house free of natural gas. That is now possible because of a new collaboration between Leid...
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Learn about the Circular Economy of Metals 03 January 2018
On 22 January 2018, the Massive Open Online Course ’A Circular Economy of Metals: Towards a Sustainable Societal Metabolism’ kicks off. This course is...
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How your diet can improve animal welfare 18 December 2017
A systematic approach to quantify impacts of food consumption on animal welfare has been developed by researchers of the Institute of Environmental Sc...
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Metal constraints for a low-carbon economy? 17 November 2017
This was the question Leiden researchers from the Institute of Environmental Sciences CML posed in an article published last week in the journal Resou...
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CML presents the circular economy at the European Academy of Sciences 16 November 2017
On 26 and 27 October 2017, the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) organized its annual meeting at the Academy of Sciences in Lisbon, Portugal. Pro...
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Collaboration in the Nano era 23 October 2017
From filtering UV light in sun cream to preventing perspiration odour in socks and sterilising fridges and washing machines. The use of nanoparticles ...
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Towards a liveable future 20 April 2017
Humans have influenced nature since as early as the Ice Age, and over the past century man’s impact has become even greater with our many new technolo...
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Dr. Constance Eikelenboom (1921 – 2017) 21 March 2017
Mrs. Dr. Constance (Stans) Eikelenboom passed away on Sunday, March 12th, at the age of 95. She was the founder of the 'Stans Award', a prize which ev...
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Reuse and recycling of mobile phones 13 March 2017
Industrial Ecologist Rene Kleijn has been in the consumer watchdog TV show Radar which has been broadcasted Monday 27th of February at 20:30 (NPO 1). ...
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Interview Mare: Microplastics are everywhere, we don't know yet if that does no harm 30 January 2017
Microplastics are small pieces of plastic found in the environment. At CML research have been conducted in the distribution of these plastics on beach...