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November 24, 2020
The global food system accounts for 20-30% of greenhouse gas emissions with meat and dairy being significant contributors but is banning beef the answer to the climate emergency and the nature crisis?
September 1, 2020
Back in 2006 Student Switch Off was launched to reduce the carbon impact of students living in halls of residences. 14 years and 1.3 million engaged students later the campaign continues to influence
July 1, 2020
Student Switch Off ambassadors are key to promoting and embedding sustainable behaviours across their residences, achieving carbon reduction as well as building transferable skills for themselve
March 30, 2020
In light of the recent allegations against Starbucks, we have written a piece on the world of coffee.
March 9, 2020
Awareness that single use vessels are a real problem is high, but there is a lot of confusion around how to best introduce solutions that work.
January 1, 2020
We asked students participating in Student Switch Off to share a sustainable New Year's resolution with us.
December 11, 2019
Having enough vegan and vegetarian options on your menu is not only good for business but for creating a more sustainable future.
November 15, 2019
Feedback from the annual event, this year themed "Positive responses to the ecological emergency"
October 1, 2019
Student Switch Off is our international campaign encouraging student action on the climate crisis when living in university accommodation.
SOS-UK and ShareAction have collated responsible investment policies from UK universities in an accessible library, to support institutions to improve and develop investment practices.
The fourth annual Global Goals Teach In is due to take place 22nd February - 5th March 2021, and 100 educators have now pledged to take part!
More than 40 students will present at the final conference of the SHAPE Sustainability Impact Project, led by SOS-UK and the British Academy.
We convened a roundtable for Higher Education (HE) senior leaders on responsible investment, and the important role universities can play in challenging the status quo.
The fourth annual Global Goals Teach In is due to take place 22nd February - 5th March 2021!
The Students' Union at UWE share what they have been doing on sustainability so far this academic year.
Green Impact is one of SOS-UK's flagship sustainability engagement and change programmes. It supports organisations, staff and students in making tangible changes to their practices.
Our 2021 New Year's Resolution? Continue supporting Education for Sustainable Development.
We asked Holly, a Green Impact Project Assistant (GIPA) at the University of York about volunteering with Green Impact in 2019-20, and what volunteering in 2020-21 looks like!
On 1st December 2020, 330 young people from 140 countries will send an open letter calling on world leaders to implement a set of realistic, yet progressive, youth-centred climate policies.
Mock COP26
We are delighted to announce that, as of 22 October 2020, we have been accredited as a Living Wage Employer by the Living Wage Foundation.
Throughout the course of October, we showcased on Twitter a number of Black people who, along with countless others, are making inspiring contributions for environmental and social justice.
Liberating Sustainability is an intersectional take on the climate emergency. Over five weekly episodes, the podcast will focus on the intersections of race, sexuality, class, gender, and ability.
SOS-UK, alongside NUS, UCU and People & Planet, are calling for ambitious carbon targets to tackle the climate emergency and ecological crisis.
We are delighted to announce our 2020-21 Host Partnerships for Responsible Futures.
Mock COP26 - a fully youth-led and inclusive online climate conference to fill the void of the postponed COP26 talks - begins in one month!
In 2010-11 we started a survey to understand more about student expectations and experiences of sustainability for their time in education. In 2019-20, we completed the 10th year of research.
This week, we launch our Invest for Change campaign: calling for universities to invest in the interests of students, not against them.
A year ago today SOS-UK came into being when we TUPE'd our sustainability team into the brand new charity we created, with the intention of us scaling up our sustainability work.
We've recently ran our first set of workshops through our newly launched Learning Academy.
We are running a Kickstarter placement scheme, with our friends at Change Agents UK for sustainability teams in the tertiary education sector.
We are delighted to announce the students' unions who have received our annual special GISU awards for 2019-20. Congratulations to Birmingham Guild of Students, Undeb Bangor and the SU at UWE.
SOS-UK are launching a monthly webinar series specifically for Green Impact teams
We're part of the Finding Your Feet campaign with NUS, TOTUM and Endsleigh
We asked students in further and higher education their views on climate change and the recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
NUS and SOS-UK response to Nestle's decision to stop using Fairtrade cocoa and sugar in Kit Kat bars
Like many organisations, we have been reflecting further in recent weeks on our role in advancing racial justice as an organisation with a focus on climate justice.
Volunteer Collins shares his experience of taking part in SOS-UK projects and how learnings from this has encouraged him to involve students in the work of Clean Air One Atmosphere.
Since March, the UK experienced a dramatic shift in working practices that took place almost overnight. Over the past few months, we've been encouraged to work from home if we can, travel less..
SOS-UK stands with the #BlackLivesMatter movement and protesters across the world standing up to systematic racism and police brutality.
Drug and Alcohol Impact
Following an almost nine year campaign led by People and Planet UoM, the University of Manchester have committed to full divestment from the fossil fuel industry by 2022.
Hatty Ruddick, of Manchester University and Students for Trees Council, is our guest blog writer this Mental Health Week.
Teach The Future
Student campaigners successfully push the University of Oxford to divest from fossil fuels and follow a net-zero investment strategy.
In recent weeks we've seen society take enormous steps to look after one another in this time of crisis.
SDG Teach In
SOS-UK are excited to announce the launch of our new Learning Academy, designed to support our work in enabling more students to be learning and leading for sustainability.
ShareAction
In the recent unprecedented weeks with covid-19 protection measures including college closures, many My World My Home student teams have adapted their organising habits and projects.
Studying or working from home, travel restrictions, event cancellations, reduced face-to-face contact with friends and loved ones are all precautionary measures taken to prevent the spread of COVID.
Sasha Beswick shares how volunteering for Green Impact as a student has influenced their journey to work in the sustainability sector.
After careful consideration, we have come to the difficult decision to postpone our Students, Alcohol and Drugs conference 2020, which was due to take place on 19th May 2020.
At SOS-UK, we continue to monitor closely the developing situation regarding COVID-19 and comply with recommendations and instructions from UK health authorities.
At SOS-UK, we continue to monitor closely the developing situation regarding the COVID-19 virus (Coronavirus) and comply with recommendations and instructions from UK health authorities.
During People & Planet's Go Green Week 2020, SOS-UK, NUS UK and People & Planet co-hosted and co-organised a webinar on Decolonising the University.
North Bristol NHS Trust
The University of Sheffield Human Resources department has recognised Green Impact as a workplace learning opportunity that benefits individuals & departments.
Returning for its 3rd year, the Students, Alcohol and Drugs Conference on 19th May 2020 at Liverpool Guild of Students offers workshops, talks and panel discussions.
Zamzam, SOS-UK and NUS UK president, reflects on a remarkable event in Parliament, engaging our MPs in the Teach the Future campaign with UKSCN.
As part of People & Planet's Go Green Week, the NUS and Students Organising for Sustainability, UK are co-hosting and organising a webinar exploring Decolonising the University.
The RecycleLeague competition has engaged over 39,000 students across 10 universities, and the University of Worcester has been named as recycling champions.
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Global Goals Teach In
Student Switch Off is our sustainability engagement campaign for students in halls of residence. Resident volunteers help make the campaign a success, and build skills through their volunteering.
Over half of all UK universities have committed to divest from fossil fuels, and participate in the just transition to a low-carbon world.
At the Student Sustainability Summit on the 4th November 2019, Fope Olaleye, NUS Black Students' Officer, chaired a panel called 'Climate Justice for Who?'.
A summary of the 2018 Student Eats (Food and Farming) conference
Let's take a moment to celebrate the winners of the Green Gown Awards 2019
As we continue driving our work forward and striving for more progress and better solutions to our climate and ecological crisis, it's important to take a moment to celebrate excellent work.
Woodland Trust's campaign
45 seconds. That's less than the time it takes to boil the kettle, take out the rubbish or brush your teeth.
In August 2019, the European Students Sustainability Auditing project, funded by Erasmus+ came to a close, and we're now able to launch all the resources we've developed through the project.
Recently moved into student accommodation? Now is the perfect time to adopt some healthy habits and implement a more environmentally friendly lifestyle when you move into your new halls or home.
My World My Home is a prestigious leadership development programme for young people between the ages of 16 and 24 delivered in association with Friends of the Earth.
As the UK heads to the polling station once more on 12 December, SOS-UK is calling for the climate emergency and ecological crisis to feature at the centre of commitments.
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In the lead up to November 30th, we are encouraging young people to come together and promote the importance of woods and trees. We are giving away grants to support with planning the event.
To share their leadership and learnings from the progress they've made as part of the programme.
Keele University and KeeleSU first joined the Responsible Futures programme in 2014 as part of the pilot cohort. As one of three host partnerships, they aim
Anglia Ruskin University and Anglia Ruskin Students' Union first joined the Responsible Futures programme in 2014, first accredited in 2016, accredited for a second time in 2019.
After 5 years of increasing levels of partnership engagement with the Responsible Futures programme, we are taking an exciting next step in our learning through the introduction of host partnerships
Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK) is a new educational charity that seeks to get more students leading on and learning about sustainability. Building on fifty years of leading-edge camp
In the last 18 months, I've become a professional tree hugger! In the summer of 2018, I was successful in gaining a summer research placement with the United Bank of Carbon (UBoC),
The SAVES2 project had a successful second academic year in 2018-19 and is now preparing to make an even larger impact in 2019-20. Here's what we've been up to this year.
The Youth Strike 4 Climate movement, led by children and young people from across the globe, has been going from strength-to-strength over this year.
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Congratulations to all unions who took part in working for a sustainable society!
Polling shows support for greater teaching of climate change and radical reform in UK school system
Our Green Impact Special Awards are a fantastic way to highlight those teams and individuals who have gone above and beyond to embed sustainability into their department, organisation or their commun
Green Impact for Health works with 11 NHS Trusts, dental practices and GP surgeries across the country to tackle sustainability issues within each area and we're excited to share two new developments
In March 2019 we launched our Green Impact dentistry programme across the South East of England to promote sustainable practices and support dentists through a sustainability leadership course.
London Metropolitan University have been taking part in Green Impact since 2016 and with keen teams of staff across the university, we wanted to share with you just what staff at London Met have
We have been working with Isle of Wight businesses over the past year to promote sustainability as being good business sense. The Seaview Hotel are one such business on the island who are responding
Attend the Time Is Now mass lobby on Wed 26 June 2019
I chose to study my undergraduate degree alongside staying on to complete my masters at Keele University due,
Today marks the release of the fourth annual �Sustainability in Education� report from the National Union of Students (NUS), EAUC, University and College Union (UCU), Association of Colleges (AoC) an
Students for Trees are supporting Mental Health Awareness Week (13-19 May) and we would like to support you by giving out small grants!
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