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These were Leiden University’s interdisciplinary milestones of 202319 December 2023Connecting worlds, enhancing research and teaching, and providing innovative solutions to complex social issues: that is the idea behind interdiscipli...
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Navigating the Energy Transition: A Call to Consider the Citizen Perspective07 December 2023A wind turbine near your home? The energy transition is not seen as just by all parties concerned. It’s essential to involve local residents, argues E...
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18 billion animals a year: they die, but never end up on our plate20 November 2023Each year a staggering 18 billion chickens, turkeys, pigs, sheep, goats, and cows either die or are killed without making it onto someone's plate. Env...
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Leiden University and Municipality of The Hague to collaborate on sustainability06 November 2023Leiden University and the Municipality of The Hague signed a collaboration agreement on sustainability on 1 November. Their main goals are to build a ...
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From fat bikes to paper bags: assessing their total environmental impact is becoming even more important27 October 2023A paper bag is less environmentally friendly than it seems. Life cycle assessment (LCA) reveals the total environmental impact of products or producti...
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Educational experiment with polder rice11 October 2023Is polder rice a feasible circular alternative to cows on peat soil? In May, an experimental trial began, with researchers from Leiden University and ...
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Making better use of our natural resources12 September 2023The availability of natural resources, the energy transition, the importance of circularity and our dependence on China. This and more is what Profess...
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Report: Tracking down green spaces in The Hague in places you don't always want to be11 September 2023Although there is considerable evidence that nature in the city is beneficial to both people and animals, we still do not have an overall picture of t...
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Opening of Academic Year on sustainability: optimism and criticism go hand in hand04 September 2023The theme of the Opening of the Academy Year on 4 September was sustainability and how the university could take the lead as a change agent. How is it...
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Research: Points system makes neighbourhoods nicer to live in07 August 2023A lot of municipalities work with a points system to encourage construction projects to take biodiversity and creating green areas into account. But t...
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Gerrit Dusseldorp joins Liveable Planet Interdisciplinary Programme: ‘Archaeologists can provide the time-depth perspective’05 July 2023With the retirement of Wil Roebroeks, Gerrit Dusseldorp will take his place as the archaeological representative in the Liveable Planet Interdisciplin...
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Nitrogen experts suggest switching from deposition to emission policy16 June 2023In an essay Professors Jan Willem Erisman (Leiden University), Chris Backes (Utrecht University) and Wim de Vries (Wageningen University) suggest amen...
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Start pilot cultivating rice on peatland23 May 2023Is polder rice a feasible circular alternative for cows on peatland? A pilot experiment started this week. On May 22nd, researchers from Leiden Univer...
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Our Earth is becoming unliveable. Can we still turn the tide?16 May 2023We have crossed six of the nine boundaries within which human life on Earth will still be possible for future generations. That is not good news. Can ...
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Buurtlab 070 launched – sustainability research in, by and for the community18 April 2023Buurtlab 070 is a brand-new Leiden University project in which residents, researchers and students from The Hague work together to find climate, susta...