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How to have a sustainable Fringe
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sustainability/2019/how-to-have-a-sustainable-fringe/
Our Festival Sustainability and Plastics Assistant, James Conway, gives his top tips for making your Fringe sustainable. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world, taking place throughout August each year. The festival is distinctive as it is ‘open access’ which means that there is no selection committee; anyone may participate, with […]
Regenerative Sustainability at University of British Columbia
Programme Manager Matthew Lawson reflects on a very special lecture from John Robinson, Former Associate Provost of Sustainability at the University of British Columbia, which took place at the University of Edinburgh on the 4th March 2016. Regenerative sustainability. This was the subject of John Robinson’s public talk on Friday 4th March, which was hosted […]
There’s no such thing as a truly sustainable material
Being sustainable means that something is able to be maintained at a certain rate or level. No material has an eternal life as the function it is needed to be, therefore I don’t believe it can truly be seen as a sustainable material as it doesn’t meet the criteria of being sustainable. Sustainable materials mean […]
Sustainable Living in Edinburgh
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/geosciences/2021/04/sustainable-living-in-edinburgh/
By Alexa, MSc Environmental Protection and Management For me, sustainable living was never the default. Where I grew up, travel by car is the norm, there are few opportunities for zero-waste shopping, and recycling and composting are not widely available. In my family, we lived a fairly typical and privileged suburban lifestyle. I was very […]
Mini-series: Embedding sustainability in the curriculum
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/teaching-matters/mini-series-embedding-sustainability-in-the-curriculum/
In this mini-series post, Kerry Cheek, gives insight into how her module in Case Studies in Sustainable Development helped improve student employability… ‘Sustainable development’ is a broad term, especially to an Environmental Sustainability Masters student. Therefore, it wasn’t immediately clear what the Case Studies in Sustainable Development course would entail when I enrolled last year. […]
Top Tips for Developing a Career in Sustainability
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/careersinformed/top-tips-for-developing-a-career-in-sustainability/
Opportunities in the sustainability sector are incredibly diverse so it’s important to do your research to find out about the possibilities. We have lots of great resources to help you and in today’s #ECOWeek19 blog post, Rachel Taylor, Careers Consultant, highlights webinars from EAUC. In 2017 EAUC produced a series of three webinars and resources […]
The University of Edinburgh's sustainability history
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sustainability/2018/the-university-of-edinburghs-sustainability-history/
The University’s vision to make the world a better place is rooted in its unique history as a civic university. Find out how the University tackled societal and environmental challenges in the last 100 years, and how this led to the creation of the University’s Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability. From the University’s founding […]
Getting involved with sustainability at the University of Edinburgh
In the first of this week’s #ECOWeek18 posts, we are delighted to share this guest blog post from Freya Pratt, a current 4th year Geography student at the University of Edinburgh. During my four years at Edinburgh, I have been on a sustainability journey that is continually picking up momentum and becoming more and more […]
Mini-series: Students as sustainability auditors
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/teaching-matters/mini-series-students-as-sustainability-auditors/
In this mini-series blog post, Meg McGrath, Communications Coordinator for the Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability, discusses the role of student auditors in the annual Sustainability Awards, with input from two of the latest auditors… I had never been an auditor, but after reading about the program I was impressed by the design of the Sustainability Awards […]
Sustainability & (In)equality
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/ai-psm/sustainability-inequality/
In recent years, attention has turned to the environmental, social and economic costs of designing, developing, and using AI across various industries. Equality and inclusion has often been an afterthought in AI design and development, leading to new and exacerbated inequalities and harms in both digital and offline realms. The trend is for AI models […]
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