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Gamified eco-driving to motivate safe and sustainable driving
With young drivers at the greatest risk of accidents on the road, eco-driving could offer a solution that promotes safer driving techniques while reducing the environmental impact.
Moral markets in energy: Bridging the gap between policy, industry, and society
Dr. Panikos Georgallis, an Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, does research on the interaction between companies and their socio-political environment when adapting to moral markets.
In the footsteps of Carl von Linné: Sustainable food production
Refarm Linné strives to increase sustainable food production throughout the country, through local, sustainable, and circular production, both in the city and the countryside.
Why is engineering design important for all leaners?
Engineering design systematically identifies needs, wants, and problems and then devises solutions to address them. A central component of our work is guiding students in the engineered design of solutions to local environmental problems.
Rapid measurement tools or fast identification of bioaerosols
Why is rapid measurement tools or fast identification of bioaerosols important and what are the challenges and opportunities?
Microbes on a chip: How microfluidics can help us better understand and engineer electroactive...
Electroactive microbes exchange electrons with their environment for survival.
Solutions to waste management in informal settlements in South Africa
Researchers look at the unfolding tragedy of waste management in informal settlements in South Africa and transferable models for community-based solutions.
Bamboo education: Learning the environmental benefits of bamboo
Professor Saijo Kiyoshi at Miyagi University of Education, examines bamboo education, discussing its useful advantages and how we need it to avert further environmental crises.
Stem cell-based therapy for corals
Could medical approaches of stem cell-based therapy, be a tool for corals’ resilience to heat stress? Benyamin Rosental, Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel answers the compelling question here.
Equal-Life team: Improving child exposome and quality of life
Four PhD students from the Equal-Life team discuss their areas of research into the child exposome, looking at the environment children are raised in and the effects it has on mental health and cognitive development.
Financing the green transformation
The role of finance is key to an efficient green transformation, needing a large-scale reallocation of capital and labour, argues Christian Keuschnigg, Professor at the University of St. Gallen.
Approaching COP27: some questions for climate leadership
COP27 is an opportunity for climate leadership to begin the long-term transition to net-zero, but is this now possible? asks Richard Beardsworth, School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds