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The Natural Resources Institute Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Natural Resources brings to bear the University of Greenwich’s expertise in smallholder agriculture, natural resources management, economic development and rural livelihoods on the challenges posed by climate variability and change. Together with their partners, they will contribute to the search for effective mitigation and adaptation strategies. […]

University of Greenwich technology used in world first mobile plant to strip CO2 from flue-gas and mineralise it to make construction products. Carbon8 Systems, a company launched from the University of Greenwich, signed an agreement with French cement company Vicat Group to deploy its leading technology in a mobile plant that can strip CO2 directly from […]

Developing a circular economy and removing plastics from the environment will be the focus of a new partnership between Teesside University and an innovative environmental start-up. L-R: John Twitchen and Miles Watkins of Stuff4Life with Siobhan Fenton, Associate Dean (Enterprise and Business Engagement) in the School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies. The Tees Valley […]

The Brighton Waste House: a building constructed using over 85% waste material and a living laboratory for ecological architectural design. Available for booking and visits at the University of Brighton’s City Campus, the Brighton Waste House is used day-to-day by university staff and students, and demonstrates numerous principles of sustainable architecture and design. The Brighton […]

Research by Brighton’s Advanced Engineering Centre and technology consultancy Ricardo could lead to greener vehicles powered by local ecosystem waste products. Published in the journal Energies, the collaborative study explores the use of upcycled methane in transport in south-east England, tapping into local waste sources of methane – such as farm silage, landfill and sewage plants […]

A team of academics from Kingston University including Dr Rosa Busquets, Dr Olga Duran and Dr Gordon Hunter, are working with Mark Gale, of not-for-profit company BeesMax and Surrey Honey Farm, on the development of new devices for monitoring pollutants within honeybee hives through funding from the BIG South London Voucher Scheme. At the start of this year’s […]

How do you convince someone to put a cricket in their mouth? It sounds like a strange research topic, but it’s a question that two Oxford Brookes University academics have been researching for over a year and is increasingly relevant as we browse the supermarket aisles. With insects increasingly being touted as an environmentally friendly […]

Research from the Water, Environment and Communities Group has been instrumental in the development of policies responsible for the uptake of measures which mitigate the damage and disruption of flooding, in thousands of UK homes. Research summary: Protecting homes at street-level The Environment Agency estimates a total of 5.2 million properties in England and Wales, […]

Researchers at UWE Bristol have developed an innovative way to produce energy, using urine as a source for a type of fuel cell to create electricity. The Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) is an electrical circuit that is driven by microbes such as bacteria. Two compartments are separated by a membrane; the microbes sit on one […]

Microalgae – from salt water to scale-up To maintain current consumption trends the world needs to produce 50-70% more food by 2050. University of Greenwich researchers have been looking into Microalgae and how it could revolutionise the food industry. As the primary producers of the marine food web, Microalgae are an underexploited resource. They consume […]