Articles about 'sustainability'

An innovative building concept co-created by a University of Cambridge architect has reached the finals of the 2010 Earth Awards.

The Bioenergy Initiative is bringing biology and engineering together to address the challenge of meeting our future energy needs.

Cambridge has never been short of ideas but the Institute for Manufacturing is dedicated to putting ideas into action.

The study of plants is blossoming in Cambridge, with new facilities, new research and soon a major new institute.

A gift from Google will help Computing for the Future of the Planet.

The Electricity Policy Research Group – a programme that spans the Faculty of Economics and Judge Business School – is providing world-class analysis to support an evolving electricity industry.

Industrialists, academics and government should join forces to drive a new industrial revolution which would help tackle climate change, says a new report.

The business leaders of over 500 companies from around the world will this morning publish The Copenhagen Communiqué calling on world leaders to agree "an ambitious, robust and equitable global deal on climate change that responds credibly to the scale and urgency of the crisis facing the world today".

Chinese, Indian, American and British scientists have released a conference declaration urging a region-by-region response to increased water scarcity and heightened hazards.

Nine of the 44 new Royal Society Fellows announced today are Cambridge academics. Their election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society recognises their exceptional contributions to society. As Fellows of the UK's national academy of science, these leaders in the fields of science, engineering and medicine join other famous Cambridge names such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Stephen Hawking.