Hello :)
has anyone applied for IE in Leiden and got admitted yet? How long did you wait?
My application status in usis is still "submitted by student" i am really nervous about the decision!
Hi all,
I am interested in the industrial ecology masters program joint degree at University of Leiden/TU Delft. I am an American graduate with a bachelor of science degree in conservation biology. I have 4 years work experience in consulting and government work in ecology and engineering. I graduated with a 3.36 GPA (I was also working in the discipline full time while attending university full time) I have a few questions if anyone is able to answer:
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Is it a difficult program to be admitted?
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Has/is anyone studied/studying in this program? Do you enjoy it?
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On average, how long does it actually take to hear an admission decision? The website states 4-6 weeks, however I've seen on reddit that it usually takes longer (8-10 weeks). Has anyone heard back from admissions from this program?
Thank you! I appreciate any response :)
Hi! I'm an international student and I have recently been accepted for the joint Masters program in Industrial Ecology at Leiden University and Delft University of Technology. I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask about this, so my apologies in advance if this is irrelevant. I have a few questions regarding housing and the program, and it would be great if any of you know about the program and could answer my questions.
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Since there are courses in both Leiden and Delft, where do students taking this program usually stay? And how does the traveling between different classes between the two universities work?
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How late am I with respect to finding housing and what is the best way to go about it in case staying in Delft is better? How difficult is it to find housing in Delft?
Thanks in advance! :)
Hey there!
I was wondering if you could consider making a video on Industrial ecology. If you haven't heard about it, here is an example:
>Since the 1970's several industries in Denmark have supplied or sold by products and wastes to other industries. Asnaes, the largest coal-fired power plant in Denmark, sold processed steam to Statoil (an oil refinery) and Novo Nordisk (a pharmaceutical plant). Some of Asnaes' surplus heat was supplied to the town's heating scheme, reducing the number of domestic oil burning systems in use. Surplus heat was also used to heat the water of Asnaes' commercial fish farm. Local farmers used sludge from the fish farm as fertilizer. By treating some of its waste, Novo Nordisk sold high nutrient liquid sludge to farmers. Statoil supplied cooling and purified waste water to Asnaes which reduced Asnaes' freshwater extraction. In addition, Statoil removed sulphur from its surplus gas and sold all of its cleaned surplus gas to Asnaes and Gyproc (a plasterboard factory). The removed sulfur was sold to Kemira (a sulfuric acid producer). By desulfurising its smoke, Asnaes sold the resulting calcium sulfate to Gyproc as an alternative to mined gypsum which was being imported.
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>These partnerships were formed voluntarily and negotiated independently. Initially for purely economic reasons, some of the later deals were made for environmental reasons.
I wonder if these systems have grown with recent technology, especially ICT. If they haven't, why not?
kind regards from Argentina!
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Hey, I'm searching for good comprehensive literature on the industrial revolutions, and continuing industrial progress. I'm less interested in a certain revolution or invention, but in a bigger picture. It's important to me, that it at least touches on ecological influences of industrial inventions in a broader perspective. Some interesting topics might be deforestation, pollution etc. I'm asking here because I'm especially interested in the connection to industrial progress. I'm also not interested in reading some fancy politically motivated biased stuff by some hippies. I'd rather read something by an author taken seriously as a historian by the scientific community. It's allright if it's controversial but it shouldn't be by the one guy everyone is laughing about. I read that Pomerantz' Great Divergence covers that topic a bit, but I'd like to read more on it or hear, what you think about that book. I also read one book called "The Song of the Dodo" by David Quammen, which was extremely pleasant, but it's more of a science history book and covers a lot of biology and evolution theory and touches nothing of Industrial Progress. I don't mind getting something with an interesting narrative or something that's pleasant to read, but it shouldn't be inaccurate. I also ordered "The sixth extinction" but still, there might be a lot missing when it comes to technological progress. Thanks !
I've been following the political developments in Rojava and initially laughed it off as an unrealistic rejection of westernism and modernism that could never be viable in a global economy.
But then I started considering the viability of social and political ecology in the West. In Australia, we're just engaging with the implementation of a high-speed National Broadband Network which will allow people to conduct business away from an industrial centre.
What are the likely political ramifications for this development? Will society gradually gravitate towards industrial decentralisation and subsequently change its political organisation?
