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Report: what does our urban mine have to offer?21 January 2021On 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 Local18 November 2020The 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 competition09 November 2020A 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 technology20 October 2020A 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 Education19 August 2020In 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 sustainability13 August 2020How 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 microplastic14 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 ...
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Impact of corona crisis on climate negotiations01 May 2020At the end of 2019, Leiden law student Aoife Fleming was elected UN Youth Representative for Sustainable Development. What impact is the corona crisis...
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GDP? Get rid of it!10 December 2019Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most powerful indicator in the world. And that while a large part of the scientific community sees it as an outdat...
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Dietary guidelines in these six countries are a win-win-win for nutrition, environment, and animals22 November 2019The national dietary guidelines in Australia, Brazil, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, and Slovenia benefit nutrition, environment and animal welfare, Leiden...
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Discoverer of the Year Paul Behrens: ‘We’re running out of time’18 November 2019Earlier this year, the public voted environmental scientist Paul Behrens Discoverer of the Year 2018. Behrens is an interdisciplinary scientist who wa...
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Leiden student Aoife Fleming elected as UN Youth Delegate23 October 2019
On Monday evening 21 October 2019, 21 year old Aoife Fleming was elected as a United Nations Youth Delegate on Sustainable Development.
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Leiden will host international conference on industrial ecology21 October 2019In 2021, the eleventh Conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology will take place in Leiden. The Institute of Environmental Science...
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Energy transition: let’s opt for a combined approach23 August 2019Despite the rapid progress in solar and wind energy, a completely clean energy supply remains a huge challenge. Heavy industry, aviation, shipping and...
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LUC- project UNPLASTIC wins Dopper Changemaker Challenge24 June 2019UNPLASTIC, a research project by Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) won the Dopper Changemaker Challenge 2019. LUC student Roos Kolkman represe...