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Leiden University takes 18th place in SustainaBul sustainability ranking03 June 2021Leiden 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 residents10 May 2021Your 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 area03 May 2021How 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 2021The 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 10011 March 2021The 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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Polluted water as a source of fertilizer26 January 2021It 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 agriculture25 January 2021Food 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 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...