Guest post from UoS Student Village Green Impact team University of Salford Student Village has really turned up the energy saving dial recently and have been promoting green initiatives Village wide! The team have been working really hard to boost environmental awareness by enforcing minimal wastage & maximised recycling, leaving helpful reminders for staff & […]
Moshe Kinn, Student Green Impact Coordinator for the Energy House, announces the following campaign: “We at the Energy Hub Green Impact Team would like to share with you our campaign to reduce our carbon emissions by helping to reduce the volume of the rubbish we recycle and throw away. It is simple: the larger the […]
Fairtrade Fortnight was marked by events all over Manchester. Unfair football matches were rigged for players to experience the un-level playing field, Ghanaian cocoa growers met audiences around the city and Manchester Art Gallery hosted a banana grower from Colombia. Indeed the banana took centre stage this year: you may have spotted some dotted around […]
The Environment team are hosting a clothes swap event on Wednesday 5th March from 12-6 at The Hub (next to SU shop, Horlock Court). To mark both International Womens Day and Climate Week, this event will bring colleagues together for some recycled fashion fun: bring your old clothes either on the day or to Maxwell, […]
On Valentines Day, Friends of the Earth ran a ‘Fossil-Free Friday’ event at University House, to mark People and Planet’s fossil fuel divestment campaign. Students and staff wrote Valentines Day cards to local MPs to refuse donations from the fossil fuel industry and spoke to FoE volunteers about the current fracking plans at Barton Moss near […]
The Green CSE team, who share an office in Newton Building, won our recent Go for Gold Week prize of a tea party, despite some stiff competition from other teams (congratulations in particular to The Green Machine in the Sports Centre, to the SURF and SURGE teams and to everyone who completed actions during the […]
Guest article by M. Spahiev (Green Impact Project Assistant for S.U.R.G.E) Green Impact is a scheme which encourage staff and students to reduce their environmental impact. Although the program is in its fifth year nationwide, this is the first year it will run at The University of Salford. My first day as a Green Impact […]
Green Impact is in full swing, and we’re nearly at the *final deadline* for teams to sign up (18th December), so to be in for a chance of winning an award for your office (and making it cosier as well as more sustainable), get in touch ASAP (c.spring@salford.ac.uk). We have a team of trained-up student […]
We are excited to be launching our latest project, Edible University! After receiving £1,000 from the University’s annual fund (thank you alumni, friends and staff of the University) we are setting up our very own food growing scheme, free and open to all students and staff members. We are currently experimenting with growing vegetables and […]
I hope that you have had a good summer and enjoying the start of term. Have a look below at some of the exciting stuff we have going on this semester. 17th Octoberis our annual Wallness Lane clean up. We spend a couple of hours clearing along Wallness Lane by the Leisure Centre which […]