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Sustainability
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/course-prog-design/sustainability/
What is it? Scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have stated that humans are responsible for the rapid rate of warming occurring across the planet, with global temperatures at 1.1 degrees above pre-industrial levels (IPCC, 2023). Nature – in terms of all the species we share this planet with – is also […]
Sustainability at the Fringe
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sustainability/2018/sustainability-at-the-fringe/
Kerry Cheek shares findings and recommendations from her work with the Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability researching sustainability in the Festival Fringe. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world. It is an open-access festival which consists of roughly 53,000 performances and spans 300 venues throughout the city. These festivities […]
Careers for a Sustainable Future - Your Sustainable Future
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/careersinformed/careers-for-a-sustainable-future-your-sustainable-future/
Our Careers for a Sustainable Future campaign starts this week and it is all about promoting and raising awareness of sustainable career opportunities to our University of Edinburgh students, helping you transition into meaningful and environmentally conscious careers. Lindsey McLeod, Careers Consultant, introduces our campaign. As we face the reality of climate change, an increased […]
The sustainable student
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sustainability/2017/the-sustainable-student/
Physics student Rachel Harrington shares ways in which the average student can live more sustainably while at University, from small personal changes to getting involved in a wider collective Sometimes sustainability can feel out of reach for the average student or even staff member. We don’t have the ability to ‘green our homes’ or switch […]
My Career in Sustainability
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/careersinformed/my-career-in-sustainability/
MSc Energy, Society and Sustainability and MA Sustainable Development graduate, Eve Redhead, shares how her passion for sustainability lead to a job as a Communications Coordinator at the University of Edinburgh’s department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability. Motivation I’ve been concerned about climate change for as long as I remember. Each year I get […]
Silver Sustainability Success
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/website-communications/silver-sustainability-success/
On 22 April, members of the team collected our Silver award at the Sustainability Awards Ceremony. Following on from our Bronze award last April, this year we decided to work towards Silver; this has involved a whole team effort, which has been both enjoyable and rewarding! Our activities have included: holding monthly bring and share […]
Building a career in sustainability
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/careersinformed/building-a-career-in-sustainability/
Sustainability is for everyone – whatever your degree. Read how Sarah’s humanities degree gave her the basis for a career in sustainability, where she has used her communication skills creatively to engage people with climate issues. Careers in sustainability are on the rise. The number of green jobs advertised in the UK is growing at […]
Be Sustainable Advanced: the projects
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sustainability/2019/be-sustainable-advanced/
In this blog, we hear from the members of staff that have recently undertaken our Be Sustainable Advanced course, a professional development course that aims to inspire and educate staff members to live more sustainably. The course has been developed in partnership with Learning for Sustainability Scotland incorporating expertise and resources from across the University […]
What is sustainability anyway?
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/teaching-matters/what-is-sustainability-anyway/
In this first post for April’s issue on “Embedding sustainability in the curriculum”, Dr Sarah Ivory, Director of the Centre for Business, Climate Change, and Sustainability, lecturer and winner of the prestigious Aspen Institute Ideas Worth Teaching Awards, explains what teaching through the lens of sustainability really means… As a researcher and lecturer focused on […]
Sustainability in Higher Education
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/teaching-matters/sustainability-in-higher-education/
In this post, Kirstin Stuart James highlights the urgency of addressing environmental damage and climate change through sustainable approaches in higher education. This post belongs to the Hot Topic series: Through the Lens of Occupation↗️. Linking back to Blog 1’↗️ in the series, not all occupations serve the ‘greater good’ of the individual or society; […]
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