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A GREEN ACADEMY CELEBRATION OF EARTH DAY!
In the virtual Green Academy HQ we have been coming up with ideas for the best way to celebrate Earth Day, after all, today is the 50th anniversary! We thought the best way to celebrate especially given that not all of us can go to our favourite places at the moment is to share with everyone else where our favourite places on Earth are…
SOLASTALGIA? IDEAS FOR COPING WITH THE CLIMATE CRISIS
If you have ever felt that the natural world is changing for the worse, then you have experienced solastalgia. The term basically means the distress from a changing environment close to your home, that your sense of place has been disrupted. I don’t know about you, but I see myself as a global citizen, on spaceship earth, and the earth is changing…
HOW YOUR CLOTHING COULD POTENTIALLY IMPACT THE ENVIRONMENT
For quite a long time when I would think of sustainability, climate change, and the environment, reduction of plastic consumption would come to mind. As far as I can remember plastic has always been a known cause of environmental problems because it’s nonbiodegradable and it produces toxic fumes when burnt….
MY SUSTAINABILITY JOURNEY
As a gardener I am super lucky to be able to be outside in the flow doing something I enjoy.
One of our Horticultural lectures was a ‘sustainability in practice challenge’ which motivated me to take the sustainability in practice certificate. I reflected on my lifestyle to see where I could make changes and improvements…
NOTTINGHAM BUSINESS SCHOOL ‘SEA CHANGE EVENT’
On Feb 20th 237 enthusiastic first-year Nottingham Business School students, accompanied by second and final year student mentors participated in a grand plastics upcycling challenge, contributing directly to UN Sustainable Development Goal 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), Goal 14 (Life Below Water) and Goal 15 (Life on Land). The aptly named, ‘Sea Change’ event…
HOW TO BREAK UP WITH PLASTIC
Since the release of David Attenborough’s Blue Planet 2, it seems that conversations around plastics and how harmful they are to the environment have increased exponentially, and for good reason. Plastic is so environmentally destructive and takes so long to break down (into even smaller micro-plastics which are just as harmful) that every single piece of plastic that has ever been made is still in existence in the Earth today. From every…
PLASTIC PLANET LAUNCHES AT NTU
In April, Nottingham Trent University’s Sustainable Development Team launched the Plastic Planet campaign with engagement stalls at City, Clifton and Brackenhurst campuses. The aim of the campaign is
BRACKENHURST TREE PLANTING
During the week beginning 19th February, volunteers from NTU and beyond planted approximately 1700 native trees in Orwin’s Field on Brackenhurst Campus.
The majority of the trees are part of an academic research project on the impact of different species on soil pH. These trees were planted in….
BIOPHILIA – OUR INNATE CONNECTEDNESS TO NATURE
E.O Wilson’s Biophilia hypothesis (1995) posits that, as a result of our extensive co-evolutionary histories with our planet’s myriad inhabitants, we possess an innate desire to interact with other species and ‘life-like processes’. Hypotheses surrounding the numerous benefits of communing with our natural evolutionary heritage…
BEES IN THE CITY
Last week, on the 25th Aug, two honey bee hives have found a new home on the roof of Chaucer building in the heart of Nottingham. The aim is to add to the network of pollinators around the city at the time when their numbers are drastically falling. We are also planning flower beds for the roof to provide food for all local pollinators…
AIESEC: THE WORLD’S LARGEST YOUTH-RUN ORGANISATION
AIESEC is the world’s largest youth-run organisation. Founded in 1948, AIESEC is now present in over 126 countries and territories and is still growing. Over 70,000 students and recent graduates, each year, in over 100 countries manage an organisation that facilitates tens of thousands of international exchanges so that young people can experience and understand cultures other than their own…
THE BIG BRACK BIRD WATCH – SOMETHING TO TWEET ABOUT!
The RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch took place at the end of Jan and we swooped on the chance to settle down with a cup of hot chocolate and monitor the birds in the Brack garden for an hour. This is the world’s largest wildlife survey- last year 519,000 people across the UK took part and a massive 8,262, 622 birds were recorded — wow something to Tweet about…
THE IMPACT OF VOLUNTEERING IN THE COMMUNITY
Volunteering brings a variety of rewards to those that take part. This is particularly true here at NTU, where students often make the most of their experiences gained during volunteering and go on to develop life skills which in turn guide them towards discovering their interests and maybe even their future career path. This is one of the benefits of the time given by our student volunteers, which I value the most. Seeing them succeed, whilst in some cases seemingly unaware that they are changing someone’s life for the better…
NTU & the sustainable development goals 