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Leiden University takes 18th place in SustainaBul sustainability ranking 03 June 2021
Leiden University has taken 18th place in the SustainaBul, the sustainability ranking of universities and universities of applied sciences in the Neth...
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How nature boosts the health of city residents 10 May 2021
Your local city park may be improving your health, according to a new paper led by Leiden environmental scientist Roy Remme. In Proceedings of the Nat...
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Sustainable The Hague: Sustainable initiatives in your local area 03 May 2021
How can you do your bit for sustainability? Students from Leiden University have launched an interactive website with 150 sustainable initiatives in a...
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Students: ‘We want to be the most sustainable university in the world’ 23 March 2021
The students from the Leiden University Green Office have big ambitions and have outlined their recommendations in a new Green Paper. Like being the m...
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LUC Alumna makes it to Trouw Sustainable 100 11 March 2021
The Sustainable 100 is an initiative by Dutch newspaper Trouw, consisting of a list of the top 100 sustainable civil initiatives. In October of 2020, ...
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Beyond plastic: why humanities scholars study waste 22 February 2021
In a new series of articles, we explore how the humanities study topics related to sustainability. First up: waste. How and why study waste as a human...
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Polluted water as a source of fertilizer 26 January 2021
It may well be possible to remove nitrate from polluted groundwater and at the same time produce ammonia in a sustainable way, according to PhD candid...
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How to set ambitious goals for sustainable agriculture 25 January 2021
Food production in the Netherlands is an economic success but has led to many environmental issues, including nitrogen pollution. Recently, the policy...
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Report: what does our urban mine have to offer? 21 January 2021
On 21 January, the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) has released two reports on circular economy and urban mining in the Netherlands. In them...
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Thinking Global, Acting Local 18 November 2020
The first year cohort of Leiden University College The Hague recently under took a local lesson which saw them collect 10200 pieces of plastic from th...
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Leiden alternative to plastic microparticles wins second prize in European student competition 09 November 2020
A team of students from Leiden and Groningen took the second prize at the European final of the BISC-E sustainability competition. Last June, the team...
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An overall picture: the environmental impacts of a new solar cell technology 20 October 2020
A more efficient solar panel sounds great. But what if these new panels consume more toxic materials, or their production consumes a lot of energy? Le...
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Redesigning the Future Through a Liberal Arts & Sciences Education 19 August 2020
In January 2020, Dr Min Jung Cho and Dr Annie Trevenen-Jones of LUC The Hague applied for the LUF - SVM (Stichting Verpakking en Milieu/ Foundation fo...
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Jan Willem Erisman reinforces Leiden’s environmental research as new professor of Environmental sustainability 13 August 2020
How can we best deal with the current problems caused by the human impact on the nitrogen cycle? How do we make the transition to a sustainable societ...
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Student team invents Suckerspheres: sustainable alternative for microplastic 14 July 2020
A Leiden Groningen student team has reached the European finals of the BISC-E competition. In this annual competition students have to come up with a ...