Healthy Planet Healthy People
Earthlings I am lucky enough to be at my Second Student Sustainability Summit lead by EAUC, People and Planet and NUS. Being brought together, student with student we questioned: Is there a link between health,…
Reflections from The Eden Project visit!
On 9th October, a few from our team ventured out to the Eden Project in Cornwall for the European launch of Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS). Sir Tim Smit Eden Project creator opened the event and Jonathan Porritt…
Skills for Tomorrow, yours, mine, our tomorrow!
One place, one message: a whole gathering of young people whose interests are sparked in hope of a more sustainable future. Skills for tomorrow held at the University of Worcester acted as the first step for some, and…
Skills for tomorrow: A Good Morrow!
Another student blog, this time from students at The Chase school. They brought me over a piece of fudge from the handmade, home made Ruby’s Kitchen. How sweet! They were enthusiastic about the environment and…
Skills For Tomorrow: Friday Round Up
Around 150 pupils from schools in the region took to Riverside campus to learn about sustainable projects, as the Skills For Tomorrow event entered its second day. Students between 11 and 14 from Baverstock, River School, Christopher…
I think… I imagine: I can do! Skills for Tomorrow!
Skills for tomorrow, day two! Today I wanted to focus my blog on one of the stalls: the outreach team. Busy with young people drawing about their aimes: their future. This is enlightening! Thinking of…
The view of the children of Skills for Tomorrow – Day Two! #SfT
For the second day today, I get to enjoy the help of the amazing students visiting us at Riverside for Skills for Tomorrow! Here are some of the highlights of the day that they are…
Skills for Tomorrow: The Boys are back!
Third and final students blog of the day from four young men from St. Marys. Chatty as ever they told me they learnt a lot today, however below their experiences and opinions are stated! It’s…
Skills For Tomorrow: Thursday Round up
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!
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…
Skills for Tomorrow: The world of tomorrow!
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…
Now lets have the children’s view of Skills for Tomorrow! Day One #SfT
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…
Skills for Tomorrow #SfT
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…
5 memes of animals that need protecting
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…
Are We Giving Students Enough Control At Our Universities?
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…
Fossil Fuel: Divest Uni’s £5.2billion
£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…
Student Sustainability Conference 2015: My Experience
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…
Population: A Tale of Sex and Money
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…
COP21- afternoon workshop
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…
Morning workshop- Circular Economy
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…
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