Following too big footprints By Mara Sutorius You and I, we both live on this planet together with about 7,700,000 other humans.1 We share only this one earth with limited resources. As you probably already know, we are not handling the scarcity of natural resources very well right now. Up to the 1970s our planet … More 2019 Week 4 – What have we learned?

The last two weeks of the course are dedicated to the final group project, where all the students present their projects in the beginning of week five. The students were divided in five groups, and got assigned different topics and themes for their work. Lori and Catherine guided the students, how to create a mind … More 2019 Week 4&5 – Class Projects

Week 3 started off with a full day of lectures! Elin Lindehoff, told us about sustainable research projects and gave us some interesting examples, i.e. Algoland. We also got two lectures from Eva Pohl and Lori Dickes, covering sustainable development and the SDGs 2030. On Tuesday, the students went on a field trip to a … More 2019 Week 3 – By the Coast

Who will be first to bite the bait? By Fantine Chabernaud The National Food Institute part of the Technical University of Denmark envision the use of algae as food substitute for fish industry. They focused on two types of microalgae, with the sweet names of Nannochloropsis salina and Chlorella pyrenoidosa which are well-known species for … More 2019 Week 3 – What have we learned?

Energy Union Develops Plan to Reduce Emissions of Transportation By Devin Orr As the world strives towards achieving lower emissions and renewable energy becomes increasingly widespread, the EU has prepared a plan to remain competitive and innovative. Oil currently accounts for 94% of Europe’s energy source, and through the implication of the new strategy the … More 2019 Week 2 – What have we learned?