sustainability

The Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) is a new and pioneering partnership formed by the University of Cambridge and leading conservation...

How easy is it to kick our fossil fuel habit? Could Britain live on its own renewables? Professor David Mackay, from the Department of Physics, will...

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) supports research from across the social sciences, from sociology to anthropology, through to...

As part of a unique collaborative agreement, the Japanese government has located a new research satellite at The Nanoscience Centre, University of...

As more people become city-dwellers, can we design cities to be more sustainable?

How can we efficiently unlock the bioenergy stored within plants? Research carried out in the Department of Biochemistry is breaking down the...

Thanks to ongoing research in the field, visitors to the Botanic Garden can experience the fascination of plant diversity and relate this to their...

As clothes become cheaper and fashion becomes 'faster', how are we to balance our consumption with environmental, economic and social sustainability...