The Skills For Tomorrow event kicked off in style earlier today, as students from Birmingham, Herefordshire and Worcestershire schools were given the chance to learn about issues of sustainability in businesses, the ‘green’ economy and careers. The…
Skills for Tomorrow: St. Bede’s Conquer Worcester! Second blog of the day at Skills for Tomorrow from the helpful students at St. Beads school. They were keen to help me with writing their own blog on here as they…
Today Skills for Tomorrow is at Worcester University, an event aimed at school aged children, about everything sustainable! I have spoken to many students from different schools who are enthusiastic, energetic, and passionate about the…
As the children visiting us for Skills for Tomorrow #SfT drifted around the exhibition hall, I managed to get some of them to help me do this blog. Below are the first attempts of my…
An amazing opportunity for the children to learn about sustainability, what it is and how important it is! #SfT Focusing on the future- this is Skills for Tomorrow! A great variety of organisations joined us…
In the morning of the Student Sustainability Summit, I attended a workshop on Nature Loss and the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) came in and gave us an overview on their NGO with an insight into…
With a record number of students wanting to see sustainable methods promoted in their studies (as well as getting a well-rounded education), are universities following through with the wants and needs of the people they…
£5.2 billion. That’s a huge amount of money, no matter how you look at it this. Unfortunately, this astronomic figure is the amount that British universities puts into the fossil fuel industry. This, however, this…
The issue of sustainability is perhaps the biggest issue that we face as a species going into the future, so I was amazed to find out that the Student Sustainability Conference, which took place…
Would you believe there were 2.2 billion people living on the planet in 1946. That’s a lot, now… what would you say about that being increased to 3.6 billion in 1972? How about the 7.2…
COP is a global summit aiming to resolve the issues of global warming. With recent reports becoming more and more concerning this is crucial for absolutely every person on the planet. The session focuses on…
I was completely right to be excited about this workshop. It lived up to my expectations. We were packed into a room but Professor Peter Hopkinson gave fascinating and easy to understand lecture on the…
You are most likley thinking that you are one person in the world, therefore why should YOU change your behaviour to be sustainable in actions, as “they won’t make a difference”. However, action of individuals…
Monday morning in the University of Leeds Students Union building. A room packed with students and delegates from all around the country. This is the atmosphere in which the Sustainability Summit is starting. #sss15…
Here I am at the University of Leeds Student Union thanks to susthingsout, People & Planet, NUS and EAUC. Students from universities all over the country have gathered together uniting as one with one common…
Just a few days from now me and the other publishing assistants will be going to Leeds Students’ Union for the first ever Sustainability Summit organised by the National Union of Students. It will be an…
The student Sustainability Summit on the 23rd of March is fast approaching… and the Susthingsout team will be attending the event at Leeds University, which is run by the EAUC, National Union of Students (NUS)…
As part of the final day of University of Worcester’s Go Green Week events, which focused on promoting sustainable initiatives to students, Friday saw the volunteers from Malvern Hills Repair Café take over the SU…
Go Green Week’s final theme of re-using was interpreted in two key ways – the students organised building an igloo in the university’s own nursery from old milk cartons as well as inviting the Malvern Repair Café to visit.…
The final day of Go Green Week is here! We had Nature, Food & Health, Travel, Energy and now its time for Re- use! It has been an amazing week with the first year students…