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…
Sustainability Leaders
Spilling the ‘Tea’: Fairtrade at City
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…
Sustainable City Challenge 2019-20 WINNERS!
Each year we run the Sustainable City Challenge for all staff to take part in. There are monthly challenges linked to the Global Goals and also the chance for staff to run their own…
90kg Fairtrade rice challenge
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…
A year in Extra Mile projects
As we approach the end of the Sustainable City Challenge 2018/19, we take a look back at some of the Extra Mile highlights from the year. The Extra Mile strand of the Sustainable City Challenge…
Creating a buzz: Beeswax candle-making workshop
Natalie and Monica, two of our student Sustainability leaders, talk about their candle-making workshop which they organised at Christmas using the beeswax from our hives. “We organized a two-hour workshop in which participants could create…
Honey Harvest
Our annual honey harvest saw over 120 members of staff getting stuck into the action! We have three bee hives on the roof of Innovation Centre and this summer they’ve been busy pollinating plants and…
Five Fun Fairtrade Events…
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…
Sustainable Dieting with Crispy Critters
When people think of sustainability events, they usually think of recycling drives, water awareness, or energy conservation campaigns. These are all important, but the Information Services Sustainability Team decided to do something a little more…unusual for our…
Which resolutions will you keep in 2016?
At this time of the year we are all caught up in tackling new year’s resolutions we hope will make our lives better. Some of the easiest and perhaps most significant changes we could ever…