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Reimagining Our Rivers: A Call for Ecological Restoration and Biodiversity Conservation
While recent floods in cities around the world have raised the profile of the ‘sponge city’ concept, looking ahead perhaps the whole...
May 1, 20244 min read


New SRI Laboratory & 3 PhD students
Over the last year there’s been a great deal of change taking place at the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI), materially, spatially...
Apr 15, 20244 min read


Ximena Chamorro Bolaños: Investigating lightweight aggregates from air pollution control residues
Ximena Chamorro Bolaños is a doctoral researcher at the SRI who has been studying the possibility of using by-products from waste...
Feb 26, 20243 min read


In Praise of Whistleblowers
By Edward Milner Blowing the whistle is a shorthand phrase meaning ‘halt the action; something is wrong’. In sport it usually denotes a...
Jan 24, 20245 min read


Helping sustainability hand for hundreds of companies
The SRI gives expert help with green innovation and decarbonisation to businesses across south and east England. Three University of East...
Jan 5, 20243 min read


Mainstreaming Nature-based Solutions
The goal is to mainstream Nature-based Solutions, by widening public acceptance and making it the standard and default practice of urban...
Dec 12, 20236 min read


Getting polluters to pay
As I indicated last time, one of the problems with the Polluter Pays principle is that economists seem to have been particularly dilatory...
Nov 30, 20235 min read


Applying the ‘Polluter Pays’ principle
Polluter Pays is the idea that any party, such as a business, that causes environmental damage or pollution is held responsible for any...
Nov 16, 20235 min read
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