Go Green Week – Repair Cafe
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…
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Go Green Week: Re-use… Lets build an igloo!
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.…
Go Green Week- Day Five (Re- Use)
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…
Go Green Week- Day Four (Energy)
Go Green Week is almost at its end and today it was all about Energy! We had quite a lot of guests who joined us in order to promote sustainable energy to the students of…
Go Green Week – Food Market
With University of Worcester’s Go Green Week kicking off on Tuesday, the focus of the day was getting students involved with healthy eating initiatives. Aside from the Food Fair event happening the SU in…
Go Green Week: Day three! How unbearably fun! Get it?
Travel was the key theme for Go Green Week today! Following up from yesterday I have spoken to Aramark the canteen at The University of Worcester about their vegan alternatives. They have a large selection…
Go Green Week- Day Three (Travel)
Today, day three of Go Green Week, was all about traveling in a sustainable way! I had the pleasure to meet our own Pearl the Polar Bear while she was preparing to board the bus…
Pearl the Polar Bear visits Worcester!
Jim Worcesterwood is back! Pearl the Polar Bear is the polar bear adopted by the Students’ Union at the University of Worcester. Part 1: Jim Worcesterwood searches for Pearl the Polar Bear …
A taste of Go Green Week…
Go Green Week commences with a food and health day. A local food fair was brought directly to the students from local providers. Out side the Student’s Union were stalls which provided fresh locally sourced food such…
Go Green Week- Day Two (Food&Health)
Food and Health today! Probably the yummiest day of Go Green Week! As soon as I entered the Pear Tree I was overwhelmed by the variety of aromas in the air! The stalls were even…
The Launch Of Go Green Week 2015
Go Green Week gets going! Today students took part on a bird watch around the University of Worcester’s St John’s campus. Many pictures were taken in aim of capturing the beauty of the small residents…
Go Green Week- Day One (Nature)
Day one of Go Green Week is now finished and here is my first blog! With the support of the lovely sunny weather in Worcester today it was really pleasant. The milk float looks smashing…
Developing Partners for Sustainable Learning in Green Graphic Design
For some years now I’ve been developing the teaching in ‘Green’ or (possibly better described as) ‘sustainable’ graphic design techniques as part of the Graphic Design and Multimedia degree course at the University of Worcester.…
An award winning bike loan scheme, right here in Worcester
Transport related carbon emissions is a major contributor to the carbon footprint with staff and student commuting producing 5,823 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions accounting for 30% of the overall footprint for the University in…
Embedding sustainability in the nursing curriculum
Professor Janet Richardson, Professor of Health Service, Research Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Plymouth University Introducing sustainability concepts to undergraduate nursing and healthcare students At Plymouth University we wanted to embed sustainability in the nursing…
Driving change is a significant part of the majority of sustainability practitioner roles
Susthingsout is dedicated to exploring the complex range of problems encountered when driving change Driving change is a significant part of the majority of sustainability practitioner roles. Indeed, the term ‘change agents’ is increasingly used…
Eco-entrepreneurs are better positioned to create business models
By Laila Kasem, Senior Lecturer in the Worcester Business School Many of the approaches suggested to or employed by businesses remain largely tactical Sustainability is becoming increasingly one of those buzzwords in the business world…
WHOLE EARTH? successor exhibition to The Hard Rain Project.
Tell it and speak it and think it and breathe it Mark Edwards is one of the few environmental communicators to have personally witnessed the global issues that are defining the 21st century. Assignments for magazines,…
Is leadership for sustainability possible in a market economy?
This debate is worth listening to. It made a refreshing change to hear some honesty and courage as panel members tackled the questions raised which included present corporate and personal value systems. Each brought a…
Students’ role in debate on a sustainable market economy
As everyone loves a great debate, this week’s event at the Hive welcomed representatives from a variety of fields to discuss an often controversial topic: is it possible to have leaders who push for a…