By Anouk Dijkman (Interim Sustainability Officer) Last Thursday saw City’s Centre for Food Policy and the Sustainability team coming together to present the event ‘Unravelling the colonial legacy of food systems’. Chair Rosalind Sharpe, City University…
Choose the World You Want is free festival of online events put on by the Fairtrade Foundation as part of this years Fairtrade Fortnight, running from the 21st February to the 6th March. Choosing Fairtrade…
Trade fair to combat climate change Unjust in its impacts By Ridwan A (Sustainability Leader) The issue of climate change is a growing one for our generation, who have the means to combat it. Buying…
By Atrayee De (SustainabilityLeader) What is Fairtrade? The commonly misunderstood term Fairtrade can be simplified as the trade that promotes fairness and improves livelihoods for producers and workers by paying them fair prices that reflect the costs…
In Malawi, a farmer needs to sell 90kg of rice to send his child to high school for a year. Nicha and Lea, two of our student Sustainability Leaders, took on the challenge earlier this…
Campus was a hive of activity during Sustainable City Week 2017 as we celebrated all things sustainable! We kicked the week off by transforming CityBar into a pedal-powered cinema! Fuelled with free popcorn and nachos,…
Got a spare half hour at lunchtime? Grab some colleagues and arrange a Fairtrade event to raise awareness of Fairtrade and earn yourself some Extra Mile points for the Sustainable City Challenge. It couldn’t be…
Did you know that London is the world’s largest Fairtrade City? Or that City University London is a certified Fairtrade University? This means that the University has shown a commitment to supporting Fairtrade – in…
We celebrated our sixth annual Green City Week from the 20th to 24th October 2014. Here are some highlights from the week:
We did it! City University London has maintained its Fairtrade Status! Today (6th of November 2013) we received a glowing report from the Fairtrade Foundation: “We are delighted to renew City University London‘s Fairtrade…