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Environment

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The wind's pushing Scotland forward »

Offshore windfarm

In the global race to develop sustainable alternative energy sources, Scotland is among the countries currently leading the pack. With 25 per cent of Europe’s tidal power and 10 per cent of its wave energy, the Scottish renewables sector is poise...

Wed 14 Sep 2011 by Marthe Lamp Sandvik | Read more »

The Scottish Greens: kingmaker? »

The 2007 election saw the elevation of the Greens to national prominence in Scotland, as the party's two MSPs – Robin Harper and Patrick Harvie – chose to prop up the SNP's minority government. The move was far from the formation of a coali...

Wed 09 Feb 2011 by Marcus de Wilde | Read more »

Climate change: the battle for public opinion »

Climate change is here to stay. In fact we are ‘locked in’ - destined as it were - to observe at least a certain level of warming over the next ten years. But this is by no means a doomsday prediction or a submission that future developmen...

Wed 26 Jan 2011 by Laura Morris | Read more »

Free environmental lectures at university »

Changing World Lectures

A new series of free public lectures at the University of Edinburgh has been launched to raise awareness about contemporary global issues that plague the human population. The eight-part 'Our Changing World' lecture series, which is being presented by...

Sat 09 Oct 2010 by Caroline Nguyen | Read more »

First place for environmentally friendly EUSA  »

Edinburgh University Students’ Association (EUSA) has been awarded first place at the National Union of Students' (NUS) Sound Environmental Impact Awards. The accreditation scheme, in its fourth year, encourages and rewards good environmental pr...

Sun 18 Apr 2010 by Amy Sutherland | Read more »

Edinburgh pushes to the front in green revolution »

Edinburgh pushes to the front in green revolution

Edinburgh Council has become one of the latest to sign up to the 10:10 climate change initiative, the landmark campaign which aims for a 10 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2010. There are now 100 local authorities responsible for more than 18...

Wed 20 Jan 2010 by Anna Fenton | Read more »

Salmond describes cutting-edge environmental future for Scotland »

Salmond describes cutting-edge environmental future for Scotland

First Minister Alex Salmond has described Scotland as a future environmental world leader during a lecture delivered in Edinburgh. The ‘Choosing Scotland’s Future’ talk was given at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, in t...

Wed 20 Jan 2010 by Jon Baldie | Read more »

Controversial Scottish pylon project gets the go-ahead »

Controversial Scottish pylon project gets the go-ahead

Scottish Enterprise Minister John Mather has revealed that the country's controversial new power line, which inspired more than 18,000 complaints and lead to Scotland’s longest running public inquiry, will be given the go-ahead for construction t...

Wed 20 Jan 2010 by Rosalind Brown | Read more »

Dying for a drop »

Water

Look at this world, at our history and our future, and think of it in terms of water. Suspend your doubt, your awkwardness at such a strange idea, and imagine things in relation to the rain, the rivers and the wells. I want you to entertain the thought...

Thu 15 Oct 2009 by Alexander Bell | Read more »

£11 million investment for electric cars on Glasgow streets »

Cars in Edinburgh

More motorists will be encouraged to use electric vehicles in Glasgow under plans announced last week by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI). The initiative will seek to increase the number of electric vehicle charging points available under a sch...

Wed 07 Oct 2009 by Madeleine Battersby | Read more »

Government must back industry over carbon capture, say experts »

A study challenging government and industry to "step up their commitment" to countering growing carbon emissions has been published in the journal Science following recent research from the University of Edinburgh. The research indicates that there is...

Wed 30 Sep 2009 by Chris Grainger | Read more »

People & Planet suit against Treasury gets its day in court »

RBS Headquarters

A campaign which began as a student movement at the University of Edinburgh has won the right to pursue HM Treasury through the courts, in an effort to prove that the government have breached guidelines on the spending of public money. In the first ca...

Sun 13 Sep 2009 by Matthew Moore | Read more »

UN Chief predicts US climate revolution »

Rajendra Pachauri

The chief advisor to the UN on climate change has claimed that a US revolution could come about as a result of proposed carbon cuts. The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri, claimed that if Barack Obama comm...

Mon 23 Mar 2009 by Demian Hobby | Read more »

Edinburgh University researchers develop environmentally friendly car »

A company set up by researchers at Edinburgh University has developed technology which has reduced fuel consumption in a BMW saloon by 30 per cent. The company, Artemis Intelligent Power, has succeeded in harnessing the same technology used for wave p...

Mon 09 Mar 2009 | Read more »

Edinburgh to introduce emissions-based parking charges »

Cars in Edinburgh

A new residents’ parking permits scheme aimed at rewarding environmentally friendly car usage has been approved by Edinburgh City Council. Under the new scheme, parking permit charges will be graded according to vehicle size and CO2 emissions le...

Mon 23 Feb 2009 by Lidija Liegis | Read more »

Napier University leads trade mission to Philippines »

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A professor at an Edinburgh university has taken the lead in a recent UK trade mission to the Philippines. Professor Martin Tangney of Napier University met with key figures from Philippine industry and the government earlier this month. The trad...

Mon 23 Feb 2009 by Kevin Guyan | Read more »

Edinburgh institutions sign up to become Universities That Count »

Globe

At a time when green issues look to be increasingly at the periphery of the agenda, Edinburgh, Napier and Queen Margaret Universities have signed up to a newly-launched scheme designed to encourage more environmental and corporate responsibility. Univ...

Wed 28 Jan 2009 by Matthew Moore | Read more »

Fairtrade: a late arrival »

Edinburgh is one, St Andrew’s is one and Oxford Brookes has been one since 2003. From an unsteady start with just two universities getting onboard, Fairtrade mania has swept across UK campuses in the last six years so that there are now more than...

Wed 28 Jan 2009 | Read more »

Environmental report predicts global 'energy crunch' »

oil rig

According to a new report, a severe ecological recession more catastrophic than the credit crisis is rapidly approaching. The Oil Crunch: Securing the UK's energy future predicts that production of easily available oil will peak by 2013 with the resul...

Sun 09 Nov 2008 by Amy Grant | Read more »

Rooting through Ramsay's box »

The 'veg-box' contents laid bare.

In the current economic climate the cost of a cabbage matters. Now the age-old student predicament of balancing low-cost living with green ethics has been compounded by the eagerly-awaited 'veg box' scheme, which helped put Adam Ramsay at the top of Un...

Sun 26 Oct 2008 by Henry McTavish, Magnus Huntly-Grant | Read more »

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