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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 2019On 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...
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Master students Industrial Ecology selected for EU-project for sustainable start-ups11 April 2019Four students of the MSc Industrial Ecology have recently been selected to participate in the accelerator programme of the EIT Climate-KIC, which help...
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Geert de Snoo new Director of Netherlands Institute of Ecology04 April 2019Professor Geert de Snoo, Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University, has been appointed Director of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIO...
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Economic expansion and land use cause bird extinction05 March 2019Population growth, economic expansion and the associated land use caused an increase in the number of bird species facing extinction and a reduction i...
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New documentary “The Future is Handmade” reflects on value of craft22 February 2019The documentary invites us to consider the question of what we consider valuable knowledge. “We need to realise that doing and thinking are intertwine...
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How meat substitutes in your lasagne can help save the planet12 February 2019National Meat Free Week, from 11 to 17 March, encourages us to choose the environmentally friendly option more often. But apart from preventing animal...
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SUNRISE: from sunlight to smart city01 February 2019The European Project SUNRISE, ‘Solar energy for a circular economy’, has been selected as one of the six Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) within...
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An evening of exchanging dilemmas surrounding sustainability27 November 2018
Why does it turn out to be so complicated to solve sustainability issues if everyone ‘knows’ about these problems? This was the central question in a ...
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European cooperation on sustainability off to a slow start16 November 2018Ries Kamphof conducted research into European sustainability policies; his findings are that the European Committee very rarely uses her authority. ‘T...