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Sustainability

December 2023

  • Cambridge University students protesting in 2018 demanding the university divest its unethical investments in arms and fossil fuels

    More UK universities cutting ties with fossil fuel industry

    Student pressure pushes higher education institutions to commit to divesting from fossil fuels

April 2023

  • A black and white checkerboard Coach bag.

    Fashion Statement newsletter
    Why luxury brands bet on bags made of everything from apples to cacti

    In this week’s newsletter: From Coach to Hermès, everyone is turning waste products into pricey high-end accessories. But will anyone buy them?

October 2022

  • Students and Coventry university building

    100 UK universities pledge to divest from fossil fuels

  • Bicycles parked outside Edinburgh University

    Universities in US and Canada beat UK in sustainability league

January 2022

  • A mock-up of the Orion space capsule at Nasa in Houston which will carry four astronauts in deep space missions to the moon, an asteroid or Mars.

    Marswatch
    Nasa asks public to help solve waste recycling for Mars trip

    Entrants asked to tackle trash, faecal matter, foam packaging and exhaled carbon dioxide by 15 March

December 2021

  • Durham University student accommodation

    How Durham University turned itself green

    Institution jumps 66 places on People and Planet’s annual university sustainability league

April 2021

  • Houses in Rugeley with power-station cooling towers in the background and a rainbow

    ‘Citizens’ juries’ deliver climate crisis verdict to Westminster

    Four expert-advised panels across UK agree cost of reaching net zero must not fall on low- and middle-income households

December 2020

  • An aerial photo shows bush fires, started by farmers, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

    Global food industry on course to drive rapid habitat loss – research

    World faces huge wildlife losses by 2050 unless what and how food is produced changes

September 2020

  • EDUCATION - Joe Brindle, who started the UK Student Climate Network's campaign to make climate change a much larger part of our education system. 17/01/2020 - Photograph by Sam Frost ©2020 - www.samfrostphotos.com

    Future of education
    'We deserve to be taught about it': why students want climate crisis classes

    Universities are bowing to pressure from their students to include modules on climate breakdown and sustainability
  • Old open envelope

    Brief letters
    Wrapped up in sustainability

    Brief letters: Dyscalculia | The probation service | Sustainable wrappers | Art and design
  • Rhodes Must Fall demonstration in Oxford, UK - 09 Jun 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by David Mbiyu/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock (10675037t) Protesters hold Rhodes Must Fall placards during the demonstration. The Rhodes Must Fall campaign was reignited from a 2016 campaign following recent Black Lives Matter demonstrations after the demise of George Floyd under police custody in Mineapolis. Despite the Covid19 lockdown, protesters globally have united to demand change. Rhodes Must Fall demonstration in Oxford, UK - 09 Jun 2020

    Towns and gowns
    'People thought I was too young to protest': the rise of student activism

    A decade ago, students protested over austerity. Now they’re campaigning against racism, climate breakdown and equality

August 2020

  • Portrait Of Young Caucasian Woman Typing On Digital Tablet In Bright Office Corridor

    Clearing 2020
    How to land a job protecting the planet: do the groundwork

  • illustration of hand and planet

    'All universities must commit to net-zero by 2030': tackling the campus climate crisis

December 2019

  • The interior of the Downland Gridshell by Ted Cullinan at the Weald and Downland Living Museum, West Sussex.

    Ted Cullinan obituary

    Architect who was an early proponent of sustainability and social awareness, as well as a master of ingenious design

October 2019

  • Students take part in a ‘Youth For Climate’ strike in Lausanne, Switzerland.

    Universities: the green agenda
    Revise, reuse, recycle: how to be a sustainable student

    From cutting out beef to repairing old clothes, here are some tips for freshers who want to be green at university

July 2019

  • Godfrey Boyle, third from left, as a member of the Open University Alternative Technology Group at a wind test site in 1985.

    Other lives
    Godfrey Boyle obituary

    Other lives: Editor of radical magazines who was an early supporter of renewable power

June 2019

  • Speaker giving presentation on business conference.<br>PAPTGT Speaker giving presentation on business conference.

    Universities: the green agenda
    As an academic, should I worry about my conference carbon footprint?

    Sophia Kier-Byfield
    A recent international conference was an opportunity to network, but I feel guilty about the waste and emissions

May 2019

  • IMG 3173 (7819d301174b8976ee1063ce8ad8b520158bc5d6)

    Universities: the green agenda
    Diary of a climate scientist: 'I see a mess of broken icebergs in the ocean'

    The difficult task of measuring the Greenland ice sheet is vital for understanding how climate change is changing the polar regions

April 2019

  • Evercreech Forest world’s tallest white gums in Tasmania<br>epa06409899 A towering white gum tree reaches into the sky, at Evercreech Forest Reserve, in northern Tasmania, Australia, 28 December 2017 (issued 30 December 2017). The forest is home to the ‘White Knights’, believed to be the world’s tallest white gums, measuring over 90 meters high and estimated more than 300 years old. The reserve was created in 1977 to protect the trees, after attempts to log the wood. EPA/BARBARA WALTON ATTENTION: This Image is part of a PHOTO SET

    Trees are at the heart of our country – we should learn their Indigenous names

    Jakelin Troy
    From Australia to the Andes, indigenous peoples understand that trees sustain us and are part of our human world

November 2018

  • Naomi Pratt, a PhD student, is leading Divest Imperial, a student protest group against Imperial’s £9m investment in oil companies.

    Universities: the green agenda
    'It's like tobacco funding health research': should universities take money from fossil fuel?

    Fossil fuel companies have infiltrated universities for years. Are students and academics increasingly turning against them?
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