This summer the Environment Team has been a hub of activity as we welcomed three student interns to the team to work on various projects. We’d like to introduce them one by one so you can find out more about them, the…
This week we welcome a new addition to the Environment Team as Lynsey Smith begins her year as Sustainability Officer. Lynsey has recently graduated from the School of Biology at the University of St Andrews, and has a…
It’s that time of year again when a I’ll be handing over the role to a new Sustainability Officer. The nature of the 1 year graduate role means I’ll be moving on to greener pastures… I’ve hugely enjoyed my time spend…
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…
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…
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…
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…
(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…
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…
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…