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September 24, 2021
The Green Impact Students’ Union (GISU) toolkit went live last month but it is not too late to sign up and take part in the programme.
September 13, 2021
Do they fund the fossil fuel industry? Do they fund the arms trade? Do they fund immigration detention centres?
August 16, 2021
Is it fair to claim that our current food system is wasteful and unsustainable? Lyndon Wallace, Student Groups Coordinator at Leeds Beckett Students’ Union explores this question.
Through the case study of Growhampton, Ollie Cem explores how foraging can connect students to green spaces and what the benefits are for wellbeing, nutrition and climate resilience.
August 9, 2021
Individual students and student groups were nominated by their SU for showing leadership for sustainability.
August 5, 2021
Weigh to Go, supporting students and staff at Keele University to make more sustainable food choices
July 26, 2021
Through participating in Green Impact Students’ Unions (GISU), SUs demonstrate how they continue to lead on sustainability initiatives.
July 22, 2021
Work with us in 2021-22, to respond to student demand and progress your ESD work.
From the 23rd - 27th August, we will be celebrating the incredible achievements of Green Impact teams from across the healthcare sector.
June 21, 2021
Students, student representatives, educators and education professionals are calling on Education Ministers at their meeting on 22nd June 2021, in Sicily, to make climate education a priority.
May 24, 2021
Over half of trustees in the UK are retired, while less than 3% are under the age of 30. The Young Trustees Movement is working to change this.
May 19, 2021
SOS-UK is excited to announce a new Carbon Reduction Engagement programme in collaboration with the carbon footprinting and reduction tool Giki Zero.
May 17, 2021
Find out how in SOS-UK's new sustainable food guide for universities, colleges, students’ unions and students, written in collaboration with Sustain, the alliance for better food and farming.
April 19, 2021
SOS-UK have teamed up with the Charity Feedback to call on universities to divest from industrial meat and dairy
April 12, 2021
SOS-UK is hosting an exciting challenge-based summer school with RED WoLF where students from all disciplines will problem-solve challenges related to renewable energy.
March 24, 2021
Wasting food feeds climate change. Did you know food waste is actually one of the biggest contributors to climate change, more than flying?
March 22, 2021
This year, our host Responsible Futures partnerships De Montfort University and Students’ Union and the University College of Estate Management (UCEM) have been delivering webinars.
March 16, 2021
Research by Teach the Future has revealed that 70% of UK teachers have not received adequate training to educate students on climate change
March 1, 2021
Some Students’ Unions who participate in our programme, Green Impact Students' Unions, share how they have kept sustainability on the agenda this year.
February 26, 2021
We are super excited to share the news that Esmée Fairbairn Foundation have awarded SOS-UK three years of funding to set up Farming for Carbon & Nature!
February 22, 2021
Over the past few years, SOS-UK has begun exploring decolonising and decarbonising education and how we can support students and institutions to advance this crucial work.
January 11, 2021
As Veganuary kicks off, a new and exciting scheme called Kale Yeah! launches to help university and college caterers plant-power their menus!
December 14, 2020
Between 33% and 50% of all food produced globally is thrown away, join Olio to reduce food waste on campus.
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?
June 18, 2020
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.
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.
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.
October 1, 2019
Student Switch Off is our international campaign encouraging student action on the climate crisis when living in university accommodation.
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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
Woodland Trust's campaign
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.
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.
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.
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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
The NUS Sustainability team have partnered with Future We Want to scale up their Carbon Footprinting in Schools Programme.
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The Garrick Green Impact team as the London School of Economics focused on single use coffee cups this year for their Green Impact project and have saved a whopping 49,000 disposable cups from being
Over the past few months Sophia has been volunteering as a Green Impact Project Assistant (GIPA) to learn more about what the University of Essex staff are doing to reduce their impact on the environ
Our research, conducted in partnership with IEMA and The Equality Trust, which aimed to understand the current picture in terms of race and inclusivity across the environmental sustainability sector
NUS released a joint statement with UK Student Climate Network on the Youth Strike 4 Climate Movement
This year 14 universities in Australia and New Zealand are now taking part in Green Impact. Our partners Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS) share with us their success in engagi
Tree-mendous Tree Charter Day
SOAS Students' Union
This year we completed our eighth consecutive year of research with students studying in the UK, looking at their expectations for and experiences of teaching and learning for sustainable development
