COP 28: Towards Progress or a Petrostate Smokescreen? In just under a weeks’ time, world leaders, environment ministers, dignitaries, business leaders, climate scientists and journalists will all be in attendance for the 28th COP. This years event is held in Expo City, part of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The Conference of the Parties,…
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How to Have a Sustainable Halloween! 🕸️🎃
“Celebrate a Sustainable Halloween: Tricks and Treats for a Greener October 31st” Halloween is a fun time for costumes, sweet treats, and spooky decorations. However, the environmental impact of this beloved celebration can be quite scary! From single-use plastic decorations to individually wrapped goodies, Halloween can generate a lot of waste. But fear not… you…
How Can You Be More Sustainable at University?
A Guide to Sustainable Life at Coventry University Now that term is well underway and you are either settling into Coventry or retuning, it’s an ideal time to ask yourself; what can I do for the environment? The climate crisis represents a very real and pressing global challenge. We are beginning to see an acceleration…
Pod Café and Food Union Blog
Organic September – Chat with Pod Café & Food Union Each year ‘Organic September‘, a campaign developed by the Soils Association, promotes the benefits of organic produce for people and the planet. I had the pleasure of chatting with Chris and Greg, who manage two interlinked Coventry-based organisations: the Pod Café and the Food Union….
Plastic Free July- Chat with Zero Waste Shop Owner Rachel Ward
The Refill Revolution We had a chat with Rachel Ward, owner of Cogs of Coventry and zero waste guru to talk all things plastic free. Cogs is a small, independent zero-waste business selling unpackaged foods and household goods. Q: When did you first learn about climate change? Rachel: I was just a teenager, a geography…
National Vegetarian Week
Since 1992, National Vegetarian Week has been encouraging more people to try and eat less meat. Eating vegetarian can be tasty, nutritious as well as very filling. However, those first few steps to switching from a meat-based diet can be daunting. In this blog, we’ll look at why it’s important we all start to reduce…
Priority Liftshare Spaces Available at Ryton
Due to limited parking spaces available at Ryton and to enable everyone to park onsite, we need to utilise our spaces better, parking more staff in each space. With that in mind, we now have available priority Liftshare spaces at Ryton, giving staff the ability to guarantee a parking space onsite by Liftsharing with a fellow…
Ethical investment workshop
During Green Week, Coventry University reaffirmed its commitment to its Sustainable Investment Policy in accordance with the mission, vision and values of the university. To this end, the Faculty of Business and Law hosted an ethical investment presentation open to all students. Four investment managers, who Coventry University holds investments with, (from Barclays, Liontrust, Newton…
My Sustainability Journey – Becoming a Student Ambassador
My Sustainability Journey – Becoming a Student Ambassador At the end of my degree, I look back to my last four years to see if there is anything there that I can polish into insight. I have grown quite drastically as a person during my time at Coventry; after all it is difficult to experience…
Sustainability Checklist: You might be more sustainable than you think!
Sustainability is a broad term that describes managing resources without compromising the needs for future generations. Sustainability is still considered a fancy term for people who think this something hard to achieve. It might be, that this concept is already a part of their daily lives and they are doing better than those who ‘practice and…
