New lease of life
The Guardbridge Energy Centre project began its life in 2010 when the University purchased the Curtis Fine paper mill in Guardbridge with the intention of refurbishing and developing the site. Not until now has the…
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Spring Biodiversity Surveys
Back in our December blog we discussed our plans for launching a new biodiversity surveying project for the Spring. Well, now that Spring’s upon us we have some reporting to do! Our 5 Transition biodiversity interns…
Get Ready for the End of Term
Donate, sell, recycle… For all those students out there with the May Dip just past and exams around the corner, it’s time to start preparing for the End of Term mayhem. It’s not always easy or feasible to bring all you…
Fairtrade Fortnight is here! (and much more)…
Looking back to last Friday (when I started drafting this post), WOW I can’t believe how busy things were around here… among other things my desk was covered by, banana costumes, Fairtrade wine, posters, leaflets and…
Consumer’s Guide to Ethical Food Certifications
It’s the third Sunday of the month: your turn to cook dinner – that’s fine because you’re not in charge of washing the dishes. As you meander through the store aisles, you remember that your flatmates are picky; John…
What Happens To Our Food Waste?
The environment team visits the anaerobic digestor that turns our food waste into biogas “Like a stomach”… is how our guide, Alan, describes the anaerobic digestion process that is used to break down our food waste…
University plans £25 million green energy centre at Guardbridge paper mill site
(Originally issued by the University of St Andrews Press Office on Friday 20 December 2013) Backed by a £10 million grant from the Scottish Funding Council which is supporting carbon reduction schemes across Scottish…
Holiday Waste
Over the holidays everyone likes to have a good celebration. Unfortunately, with all that extra eating, drinking and present-buying, this tends to lead to a lot of rubbish, we produce over 3 million tonnes of waste…
Biodiversity On The Mind
During my brief lunchbreak today I found myself totally engrossed in the State of Nature Report – a first of it’s kind document detailing the health of the UK’s wildlife populations (available from the RSPB). It was a…
Students Tour Future Guardbridge Biomass Energy Centre
Today we led over a dozen interested students on a special tour of the former Guardbridge paper mill, which is set to host one of the University’s two new macro scale renewable energy installations, the Guardbridge…