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February, 12, 2018
Applying Circular Economic Principles to Reduce Embodied Carbon
Grantham Centre supervisor Dr Danielle Densley Tingley, Lecturer in Architectural Engineering, has published a book chapter which looks at sustainability in construction. This book chapter focuses on methods to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that result from the materials we use in […]
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February, 6, 2018
GCSF team visits Petra university
Grantham Centre team members visited Petra University last week. The delegation toured the facilities of the Faculty of Engineering and the College of Architecture and Design. The visiting delegation included the Director of the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, Prof. […]
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February, 6, 2018
Helping Crisis Responders Find the Informative Needle in the Tweet Haystack
Grantham Supervisor Dr. Diana Maynard, Department of Computer Science, has been working as part of a team developing tools to automatically help citizens and aid workers communicate during emergency crises such as floods and earthquakes. Finding and interpreting the relevant information […]
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January, 16, 2018
Accessibility, reusability, reliability: Improving the standards for publishing code in Methods in Ecology and Evolution by Robert Freckleton
Grantham supervisor Professor Robert Freckleton has authored a new paper exploring the standards for publishing code. ‘Since we launched Methods in Ecology and Evolution in 2010, a key objective of the journal has been to improve the communication and uptake […]
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December, 20, 2017
Top 10 tips on how to make the most out of your Christmas feast
Our top 10 ways to be greener this Christmas
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December, 20, 2017
Grantham supervisors thematic editors of a special issue of Frontiers In Plant Science
Grantham supervisors Drs Menon and Casson are thematic editors of a special issue on Water-Use Efficiency: Advances and Challenges in a Changing Climate in a leading plant science journal, Frontiers in Plant Science. Their aim is to collect make an article collection […]
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December, 20, 2017
Can the Blues go Green?
Jonathan Sykes, whose research focuses on the impact of climate change on built environments, reports back from a centre-right conference on the environment. Theresa May is trying to claim some green for her blues. She recently made much of her […]
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December, 13, 2017
Growing food from mattresses: what experts can learn from working in refugee camps
Our Director, Tony Ryan, on co-creating inventions with refugees from Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan. I am a scientist who has spent his career working with industry at the interface of science, engineering and medicine. I have served on many […]
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November, 27, 2017
We need radical change in how we produce and consume food
Chief Research Advisor for the GCSF, Peter Horton, writes that only a radical change in the way we produce and consume food will deliver a sustainable and just global agri-food system. Read the full article here
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November, 21, 2017
The politics of water: Investigating the sustainability of rural water projects in Balaka District, Malawi
Grantham Scholar Naomi Oates is in Malawi doing fieldwork, she is examining how policies, politics and water are entangled in everyday lives. In this blog she reports on her first weeks in the field and the complex reasons why a […]