Sustainable Materials: With Both Eyes Open is a book exploring options for a sustainable, materially efficient future. Professor Julian Allwood @Cambridge_Uni
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22 Feb 2021
Greener #shipping would put just a few pence on the cost of a pair of trainers, says @Maersk. bbc.co.uk/news/business-5612…
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an important piece of work by our colleagues in the Resource Efficiency Collective. #preventoceanwastepollution #limitgreenhousegasemissions #promotereuseandrecyclingofplastics
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19 Aug 2020
A year ago today, we broke a world record with 88 pianists using 7 metre mechanisms to play one piano. You'll notice that everyone was very close together! If we did it today and maintained social distance between players, our mechanisms would have to be 55 metres long!
22 Aug 2019
88 children play ONE PIANO, in a record-breaking achievement. Wonderful! ❤️🎶
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If you are interested in doing a PhD at Cambridge, we have two opportunities at the moment: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/26409/ & jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/26488/
7 Jul 2020
Guess What Uses 50% Of The World’s Energy, Creates 30% Of Emissions via @forbes forbes.com/sites/davidrvette…
6 Jul 2020
From dusted-off bikes to electric dreams: UK green economy booms on back of Covid-19 theguardian.com/environment/…
SustainableMaterials retweeted
7 Feb 2020
The only way to hit net zero by 2050 is to stop flying
Dreaming of electric planes and planting trees will not save our planet ft.com/content/e00819ba-4814… Opinion byCambridge professor
Julian Allwood:
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SustainableMaterials retweeted
10 Feb 2020
The world can’t wait for breakthrough technologies to deliver #netzero #emissions by 2050 and instead must use existing technologies to drive incremental change.
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SustainableMaterials retweeted
6 Feb 2020
Coming up later: #HouseofLords debates 2050 net zero emissions target in light of @UKFIRES report ‘Absolute Zero’.
▪️ Find out more ow.ly/elee50yf4o2
▪️ Read Library briefing ow.ly/QwQE50yf4o3
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SustainableMaterials retweeted
4 Feb 2020
BBC News - Petrol and diesel car sales ban brought forward to 2035 bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
Read our Absolute Zero report for more information.
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SustainableMaterials retweeted
22 Jan 2020
Another step in the right direction to tackle climate change: climateassembly.uk
Professor Julian Allwood is supporting this important work by joining one of the meetings on the weekend of 28 Feb to 1 March.
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1 Dec 2019
Excellent thread summing up Absolute Zero by @UKFIRES
SustainableMaterials retweeted
28 Nov 2019
Key message in the book of @SMWBEO for #COP25Madrid “If we take responsibility for our (#CO2) #emissions, we must do so regardless of where they occur”. This means #rethinking many #policies …
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22 Nov 2019
Follow @UKFIRES for the latest
22 Nov 2019
Today, our Policy Leaders Fellows had lunch at @TrinityHallCamb with Prof Julian Allwood of @Cambridge_Eng & @Use_Less_Group. They discussed #energytransition, #absolutezero, & #emissions and previewed findings from Prof Allwood's new report, due out next Friday!
SustainableMaterials retweeted
13 Nov 2019
Cut the scrap! Making next generation car bodies - PHD studentship opportunity @Cambridge_Eng uselessgroup.org/epsrc-dtp-s…
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SustainableMaterials retweeted
7 Oct 2019
We're excited to welcome Prof Julian Allwood from @Cambridge_Eng & @Use_Less_Group to @Ely_Cathedral for our free #ClimateChange forum this Thurs. Julian's book “Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open” is listed by @BillGates as one of his top 6 reads of 2015
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SustainableMaterials retweeted
25 Sep 2019
Report published today by the @IPCC_CH . Highlighting the need for action now on emissions reductions.
"Education and climate literacy, ..., sharing of data, information and knowledge, ..., addressing social vulnerability
and equity, and institutional support are also essential."
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24 Sep 2019
Be sure to follow us on our new group Twitter! @Use_Less_Group #ClimateChange #ResourceEfficiency #moretocome
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24 Sep 2019
Pleased to be presenting our report Steel Arising to the Welsh Cross Party Group in Cardiff today. Find out more about the opportunities for the UK in a transforming global steel industry in our report:
uselessgroup.org/outreach/pu…
Thanks to @LibertyHouseGrp and GREENSTEEL Council
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10 Jul 2019
Look what we're up to at the moment!
10 Jul 2019
40 days until 10 universities, 2500 school children, 88 musicians and 1 incredible composer attempt to set an unbreakable world record @ICC_Birmingham ! #davinci500 #STEM #art @martrileymusic @RBCEarlyMusic @Cambridge_Uni @LivUni @sheffielduni @TheAMRC @UoNPressOffice @UniofBath