Building on practices embedded in the 2014-15 Green Impact, colleagues in Joule House are taking further steps to create a big impact. Once home to the Salfordian physicist James Joule Prescott, the Joule House team is committed to preserving its heritage in reducing energy inefficiency. Working within the confinements of the restrictions imposed on the […]
On Friday 10th March staff and students gathered together to take part in the National Union of Students’ Blackout campaign. After a brief training session and donning their Blackout t-shirts, the volunteers split into teams and went to audit non-essential lights and equipment in their allocated areas. The teams noted down the total number of […]
From Monday 13th February – Friday 10th March we will be running a series of free events and activities to raise awareness of sustainability issues and engage with the University community. You can find details below of the activities planned so far and there will be further events announced soon. If you would like any […]
A big welcome to new and existing staff and students here at the University of Salford. The Sustainability Team are looking forward to an exciting year ahead and hope that you are ready to get involved too! Gillian Wright joined the University back in May as the Energy Manager, and Neva Mowl has recently started […]
Hello! It’s Bec here! As you can see we have been a bit quiet over the last year on our blog as i’ve been on maternity leave where I had 9 months to enjoy welcoming our second little boy, Owen, to our family, joining our eldest, Oliver. However, we will be starting to post more […]
Nursing and Midwifery The introduction to the first handbook I read on Environmental Issues states: “In the education sector there is no shortage of lofty aspirations about the need to save the planet for future generations. The problem is that we are short of the kind of action that will deliver at the scale required” […]
The second cycle of Green Impact at Salford was another successful year. 15 teams from across the university successfully achieved an award level – Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum. Within the 15, we welcomed 8 new teams into the programme. Teams across the university have come in all shapes and sizes – some teams have […]
Alumni House: A Review of our Green Impact Year The team at Alumni House put together a great newsletter to celebrate their year with Green Impact – open and read the PDF below! Read the Alumni House Update here.
Arts and Media: Green Impact inspired more. On the 23rd of February 2015, the University of Salford launched the “Go Green Salford” in the foyer of Maxwell building. The Green Impact Assistants from Adelphi actively took part in the launch. We had the pedal powered bike for making smoothies, we had information about how #gogreensalford […]
Greening the Library! The Green Library team got together a little later than some teams (in February 2015) but is already well on the way to achieving the Bronze award (with even some completed actions in Silver and Gold too!). Our team is made up of 6 people from across the library service, all with […]