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Christ's College Worm Farm - Change Challenge Project

15 May 2015

Tom Niven's (ESD 14 -15) change challenge this year was to assess if a worm farm could be used to recycle organic kitchen waste at his College and create compost for the College gardens. An article introducing the project and outlining his findings can be found in the Christs's College Newsletter "Pieces." See page 7...

New links with SouthEast University China

12 May 2015

Dr Fenner and Dr Cruickshank recently accepted an invitation to visit SouthEast University In Nanjing, China where they explored a number of areas of possible collaboration with CUED's Centre for Sustainable Development. These discussions involved the development of joint research proposals, help with setting up new...

Arthur Shercliff Travel Scholarship 2015 won by Samantha Passmore

13 April 2015

Samantha Passmore, a current ESD MPhil student, has won an Arthur Shercliff Travel Scholarship 2015. She will be using the award to travel to Honduras to investigate the viability of converting the business model of Water Expertise and Training (WET) Centres run by the Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology...

ESD MPhil Spring Fieldtrip to Mid Wales 2015

8 April 2015

The ESD MPhil students had a successful fieldtrip looking at alternative technolgies in Mid Wales. They visited the Severn Trent Water anaerobic digestion plant Coleshill, Rheidol Wind Farm, Centre for Alternative Technology, Rhiedol Hydro and Ironbridge Biomass Power station. They met entrepreneurs from Surechill (Cooling...

Wealth from Waste

24 February 2015

PhD student and ESD MPhil Alumni (09-10) Luca Di Mario has an article published in "The Scholar" in which he explains why businesses should get involved in waste recovery in the developing world. See more at: http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/wealth-waste

Extreme Sleepover: Keeping the lights on in rural Uganda

24 February 2015

PhD student and ESD MPhil alumni (11-12) Stephanie Hirmer has an article published in "Research Horizons." The article " Extreme Sleepover: Keeping the lights on in rural Uganda " (page 34, issue 26) talks about her PhD research looking at the locals real needs and desires as a key element in overcoming the lack of...

Planting trees in the snow - Bin Brook Meadow

2 February 2015

Thank you to Guiseppe, Fotis, Taskeen and Vincent who planted our first trees at Bin Brook Meadow, Coton on Saturday. They planted cherry and crab apple trees despite the snow!

ESD MPhil Role Play December 2014

13 January 2015

ESD MPhil students took part in a Role play exercise in December. One group looked at the issues surrounding the generation of renewable energy on the Severn Estuary and the other group looked at the Rogun Hydropower Project in Tajikistan.

Bin Brook Meadow, Coton Reserve

14 November 2014

Many thanks to the current ESD students who came to start clearing Bin Brook Meadow on the Coton Reserve on Saturday 8th November. We had good fun battling brambles, hawthorn etc and making bonfires. Thanks also to Geoff Morgan (ESD MPhil 2011-12) as our alumni representative. For more information about the Coton Reserve...

Welcome to Arman Hashemi

15 October 2014

Welcome to Arman who has recently joined the Centre as a Research Associate working with Dr Heather Cruickshank on an EPSRC/DFID/DECC funded project: “Energy and Low Income Tropical Housing” (EP/L002604/1). The project intends to “identify, and then begin to propagate, methods of reducing the energy consumption of low-...

Christ's College Worm Farm - Change Challenge Project

New links with SouthEast University China

Arthur Shercliff Travel Scholarship 2015 won by Samantha Passmore

ESD MPhil Spring Fieldtrip to Mid Wales 2015

Wealth from Waste

Extreme Sleepover: Keeping the lights on in rural Uganda

Planting trees in the snow - Bin Brook Meadow

ESD MPhil Role Play December 2014

Bin Brook Meadow, Coton Reserve

Welcome to Arman Hashemi

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