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25
Jul

Student Work Experience

In June 2010 a group of 9 6th form students (from St George’s School and Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh), travelled to London for a work experience week at Sindicatum Carbon Capital organised by the Sindicatum Climate Change Foundation.

Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh and St George’s School

The week was set around teaching an understanding of the market-based environmental regulation and the difficulties of setting up a company within it. The program included daily updates on evolving situations, case studies and a visit to a methane capture facility. Challenging and inclusive talks were given by Christopher Webb of Price Waterhouse Coopers and by Mike Wheelhouse of SCCF. Throughout the week we were expertly taught by Gareth Phillips and organised (not an easy task!) by Renita du Toit and Natasza Moskwa. It was an excellent experience and I would like to sincerely thank SCCF for the opportunity. Hopefully the program will continue in the future!

By David Mcbay, Student of Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh

07
Sep

New project in the Jordan Valley

Moon Valley

All photographs courtesy of Bryony Livingstone

Our chairman, Lord Stone of Blackheath, launched an initiative last year to help Palestinian farmers access the UK fresh food market. This initiative, ‘Moon Valley’, has already achieved notable success. West Bank farmers’ produce (initially fresh herbs, but to be expanded to peppers, tomatoes and more) is now available at Sainsburys, M&S and the Co-op.

Lord Stone asked us to spend some time with the Moon Valley farmers to investigate opportunities for helping them with resource management (particularly water and power) and sustainability. We made this trip towards the end of August, and the following is a very condensed summary of our findings.

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17
Aug

New intake of postgraduate students

The Foundation is preparing to welcome its second set of MSc students at TERI University in Delhi. Our first students are all doing well, scoring good grades and enjoying their experience. One of these four students, Jonathan Okoronkwo, recently published an article in the University’s “Solar Quarterly”; Understanding the Vitals of PFS, FS, and DPR for Solar Energy Projects (PDF 751KB). We plan to visit Delhi during September to meet the new intake of students and also spend time:

  • Visiting Gomti bio-fuels (www.gomtibiotech.in) which has a joint venture project with our sponsor firm SSR; we want to investigate whether the Gomti technology can be used to produce bio-diesel in the Jordan Valley;
  • Have a good look at HitechAgro’s (www.hitechagro.org) biomass drying equipment in action; we consider using their drying equipment in the UK on project Greenland;
  • Getting an update on our Delhi-based project Grassroots, which by September should be turning municipal waste into solid fuel briquettes.