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Putting people in the picture for a low carbon future

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Bioenergy students Nicola Wood and Samantha Sime accompanied James Mckay, manager of the CDT Bioenergy, to the British Science Festival in Hull on the evening of 12 September as part of the Royal Academy of Engineering INGENIOUS project ‘Low Carbon Technologies – the Art of a Sustainable Future’. The evening festival events were being held in...

Climate change on the bill at Ilkley Literature Festival

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Academics from the Priestley Centre are contributing to a range of events with a climate change theme as part of the North of England’s longest running literature festival, which returns this autumn. The Ilkley Literature Festival has announced its stellar line-up for this year’s event, which runs from 28 September until 14 October and comprises...

CUSP Fellow appointment to link Leeds with schools

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James Mckay, manager of two EPSRC Centres for doctoral training in Low Carbon Technologies and Bioenergy at the University of Leeds, has been made a Fellow of CUSP, the Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity. Mr Mckay, a graphic artist and science communicator, is editor of the recently published book A Dream of a Low Carbon...

Visions of the future old and new inspire climate change workshop

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Graphic novels and artwork from the University of Leeds’ archives were used to inspire creative visions of the future in a workshop with teens for the Being Human humanities festival. Thirty-three students aged 16-18 from schools in Bradford and Leeds attended the workshop at the Treasures of the Brotherton for an event that focussed on...