The Faculty recently held its second Environmental Sustainability (ES) showcase, following on from the success of last year’s event. The annual showcase brought together over 60 staff and students from across the University to highlight the Faculty’s progress in...
Nestled within the heart of the Michael Smith Building, a cutting-edge centre for innovation and pioneering research, the Quad Garden is a perfect example of how nature and urban life coexist on our vibrant campus. Originally an unkempt and mundane outdoor space,...
Blog by Stuart Pepper and Maggy FostierIn the lab, the top two energy consumers are fume cupboards and ultra-low temperature freezers (ULTs). Based on a typical 4 bedroom house consuming 11.2 kWh/day in the UK, on average, fume cupboards use the equivalent of 2.5...
Blog by Dr Maggy Fostier, FBMH Associate Dean for Environmental Sustainability.Welcome to the 4th edition of the FBMH Environmental Sustainability (ES) Good Newsletter. Palpable progress has been made in the recent months at the University level and within the...
Blog by Maggy Fostier, Associate Dean for Environmental Sustainability in FBMHA year ago, I attended the Royal Society conference on Sustainability in the research and innovation endeavour (report on their website). I had a wonderful day learning about progress to...
Blog by Jenny Herbert, Lecturer and Social Responsibility lead in the Division of Medical Education.Within the division of medical education (DoME) we decided this year for our divisional gathering to do something that had an environmental twist. Gathering and...
Blog by Yixuan, Y1 undergraduate student, School of Biological Sciences. Can you imagine producing food from the air? Yes, you can. Agriculture relies on plants converting carbon dioxide into carbohydrates, but can we make food without using plants? Now, we can... in...
Blog by Harriet Bickley, Research Associate and Sally Freeman, Reader in Medicinal Chemistry. The School of Health Sciences Environmental Sustainability group and friends ran a series of fun part-wildlife, part-science stalls about trees at three events in June: the...
Blog by Giorgia Ravera (Sustainability Coordinator at University of Manchester Students’ Union) and Maggy Fostier In 2020, the sector of information and communication technologies (ICT) was responsible for between 1.8% and 2.8% of global GHG emissions (more than...
Blog by John Vass-de-Zomba, IT Environmental Sustainability ManagerDuring the kit amnesty last month, staff and students handed in their unwanted kit to IT Services at several drop-off points across campus - both personal property and the University's. Over the week,...
