Don’t miss the two new animations in our series on Microbiology/Engineering Interactions, which came out during #EnvBiotechAware week. Prof Tom Curtis has already shown his Microbes in Wastewater Treatment as part of a presentation to the Royal Academy of Engineering, while Aerobic Granules captures some key themes of the AG …
Our Green Stories: Microbes to the Rescue anthology is now available as a free audiobook, as well as a free eBook on the Resources page. Each month we are highlighting 2-3 stories, equivalent to about 30 mins listening in total. Let us know what you think about them! This month’s …
For information on our activities, see our #EnvBiotechAware week which ran from 3-7 March 2025 Celebrating our Network members and their work, with lunchtime webinars, reports, animations, case studies, outreach and more. Friday contains some real treats. An Escape Room game to save our water supply, an audiobook, an upcoming podcast with the …
Don’t miss the new Soil Matters podcast from the British Society of Soil Science. Episode 1 features Prof Fred Coulon and Prof Tony Gutierrez talking about new bioremediation techniques that are completely changing our approaches to reclaiming contaminated land. The podcast is available free on the BSSS Soil Matters webpage, …
Following our summer call for animation ideas to illustrate EBNet’s Microbiology/Engineering Interactions Theme, we now have 3 new videos to enjoy on YouTube. Our thanks to Dr Hemaka Bandulasena, Loughborough University, Dr Francis Hassard, Cranfield University and Dr Yue Zhang, University of Southampton for working with Senate Media to create these. Want …
A new anthology ‘Stories from the Microbial World‘ resulting from previous Green Stories competitions is available this week here. The anthology presents 23 short stories selected from winning stories from the Green Stories competition ‘Microbes to the Rescue’, sponsored by the Environmental Biotechnology Network and the ‘Clean vs Green’ competition, …
The UP-TO-ME project is an EU-funded initiative aimed at transforming decentralised power-to-methanol production for applications such as marine vessels. UP-TO-ME focuses on tackling the challenge of converting CO₂ emissions from hard-to-electrify sectors into renewable fuels. The goal is to drive forward the EU’s transition to a net-zero economy by creating …
The EBNet outreach team put some of their Circular Bio-economy activities on offer at the University of Southampton’s Dragonfly Day. Dragonfly Day is an on-campus day designed for Year 9 female students to encourage young women to consider the benefits of further study and careers in science and engineering. Dragonfly Days are a popular …
With a challenge of ‘bringing our own energy’ and in temperatures exceeding 30 degrees C, the AD Network legacy Circular Bioeconomy outreach team headed for Glastonbury on 25th June to 1st July, joining scientists from all over the country in order to talk to festival-goers about our work. Big thanks …
Discussing how we can make interesting things from waste is probably not the most obvious starting point for impressing a group of girl guides, but our Circular Bioeconomy outreach team did just that at the STEM Badge Day on 19 Apr at the University of Southampton. Guides spent the day …
Our intrepid outreach leader Marty Climenhaga was joined by Kai Chang, Ana Perdomo Marin and Lupita Landeros Gonzalez to bring our ADNet/EBNet Circular Bioeconomy roadshow to festival-goers at the South Downs Green Fair near Petersfield on 12 May this year. This is one of our favourite events: relatively local, great food, lot of interesting (and interested!) people and a lovely family atmosphere.
