The UK’s first net zero college

As I’m spending so much of my time helping educational institutions get to net zero, I’m always looking out for people who have already done it. There are a handful of schools that have reached zero emissions, and Wolfson College in Oxford claim to be the first to achieve it in higher education.

Oxford colleges evoke ancient quads in honey-coloured stone, and Wolfson College is not that. It’s just out of town in a 1974 build in steel and glass, from noted modernist architects Powell & Moya. ...