Woo Bikes The University of Worcester’s bike share, Woo Bikes, is looking to get staff and students to travel more sustainably. It offers both traditional pedal bicycles and electric pedal assist e-bikes to users. Woo Bikes has also been looking into getting some of their e-bikes to local businesses so that employees can use them on business trips. A Have… Read more →
Designing a benchmarking tool This post explains the development of a semi-automated benchmark tool to review how embedded sustainability is into university research and the undergraduate curriculum. It also maps it to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals or SDG’s, a collection of 17 goals to make the world more sustainable. Undertaken by students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Massachusetts… Read more →
Helping residents and visitors to learn simple ways to live more sustainably the University of Worcester and Worcester City Council held a city-wide Go Green Week. Focussing on promoting the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) created by the United Nations through a variety of events and activities. Heralded a success and promoting the 10 simple Golden Rules about living sustainably. The week… Read more →
And so, the second week of living sustainably draws to a close. I think I have managed to solidly get into a routine of switching things off when I leave the room. I’ve also found myself turning off lights in the corridors whenever I walk through them if it’s light enough outside. This bit is obviously a bit harder to… Read more →
My first week living sustainably As mentioned in the previous post, Callum is going to make an effort to live as sustainably as a student can. Let’s see how his first week went. Okay from my first week I can sum up the following: I have a memory like a sieve and my flatmates will never let that go. In General I… Read more →
Living Sustainably as a Mum Written by Tanya Carpenter Actually, I never watched Blue Planet. I had guessed the punchline already and knew it would be a depressing one (I was right). It didn’t take the Blue Planet for me to figure out that plastic doesn’t just dissolve into the ether (not without leaving behind some nasty chemicals). My journey… Read more →
