Dr Kevin Grecksch and Dr Stefan Knauß, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, have received seed funding from The British Academy in partnership with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to explore creative interventions for social and environmental crises.

Beans and peas rank best as meat and milk replacement from nutritional, health, environmental, and cost perspectives, a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has found. They outperformed processed products like veggie burgers and plant milks, but also lab-grown meat which ranked worst. 

Throughout the holiday season, the urgent need for sustainable consumption is clear. Some 300,000 tonnes of clothing and 471 million small electrical everyday items end up in household waste in the UK in a year, with the number of unwanted items increasing significantly just after Black Friday. The current trend of overconsumption is fuelling climate change, nature loss and pollution. Felippa Amanta, DPhil student, explores how to shop more sustainably this festive season in an article for The Conversation.