Sustainable Soton
@sustainable_uos
Bringing students and staff together to deliver groundbreaking sustainability initiatives at the University of Southampton.
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http://www.southampton.ac.uk/sustainability 03-01-2012 15:40:49
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Today is the start of Cycle September! Sign up at Love to Ride to set yourself cycling goals, log your rides and track the carbon you've saved from travelling by bike! 🚴♀️
What better way to celebrate the start of #COP26 than to also support World Vegan Day with The Vegan Society! Eating a plant-based diet is one of the best things that you can do as an individual to reduce your carbon footprint and help save the planet!
Keep in touch with activity at COP26 UN Climate Change with the designated YouTube channel, showing live talks throughout the conference: youtube.com/c/cop26
What's happening at #COP26? What does it mean for the world? 🌍 Find it out with University of Southampton experts Ian Williams, Simon Kemp, and Dr Wassim Dbouk and Fatima. Chaired by Tony Curran. 🗓️ Thu 11th November, 18:00 📍 YouTube bit.ly/UoSWhatHappene… #UoSArtsHumFest🖐️
In support of the University of Southampton Sustainability Strategy, from June 2021, the University has switched to a renewable electricity supply to help to reduce our carbon footprint. This will help to achieve our target to be net zero for scope 1&2 emissions by 2030.
Congratulations to the University of Southampton Hedgehog Friendly Campus team for achieving a silver award for their hard work in helping to make our campuses more welcoming for hedgehogs!
Today marks the start of Fairtrade Fortnight Fairtrade Foundation working with farmers to strengthen environmental protection, provide resources, training & knowledge to face climate challenges right now. All teas and coffees at @UniSouthampton cafes are proud to be Fairtrade.
Congratulations to NCS and Marine Biogeochemistry - Microbe-phyto who are the latest University of Southampton labs to achieve the @LEAFinlabs Bronze award, joining labs in Geography & Environmental Science at Southampton, and @UoSChemistry
Get ready for Bike Month in May with Love to Ride 🚴♀️sign up and log your rides to win lots of exciting prizes! Cycling is great for your health, reducing your carbon impact and improving local air quality 🌍
🦌🌲Study Geography & Environmental Science at Southampton reveals land around Stonehenge was covered by open woodland with meadow-like clearings, inhabited by grazing animals and hunter-gatherers, long before the iconic standing-stones were built.🐗🌳Find out more: bit.ly/3F2V2f1
Tomorrow is #SOTSEF at University of Southampton. Get involved with biodiversity 🦋🐝 by downloading the iNaturalist app for free and logging any plant and animal species that you find. Every species found helps us to understand more about our species on campus!
Happy #WorldOceansDay 🌊🐳Do your bit to save our oceans by reducing your plastic and chemical use! Don't forget your reusable mugs in the University of Southampton cafes to reduce plastic consumption and save 20p!🌍
We've had some fantastic sightings across our campuses University of Southampton, spotted by our amazing landscaping team! Here's a rare bee orchid spotted on Highfield campus and a fawn at one of our halls of residence sites!
Sustainable Soton great to see yellow meadow ants (Lasius flavus) on the reduced mown areas of Highfield campus
Thanks to everyone who participated in Cycle September Love to Ride University of Southampton staff came 1st in the UK for organisations with 2000+ staff! Together we cycled 16,283 miles and saved 3,050 lbs of CO2 🚴♀️
COP27 has begun! Keep in touch with the action UN Climate Change and see the live stream here: youtube.com/watch?v=BnsBzd…