This year is the seventh year of the Green Impact scheme in the University, and on Friday 21 June the University came together to celebrate the achievements of the 50 department and College teams that participated this year. Hosted in the wonderful surroundings of the David Attenborough Building, home to the Cambridge...

There are so many staff and students who go above and beyond to make environmental improvements in departments and Colleges. These individuals may think that their efforts go unnoticed, but that is not the case. The Environment and Energy section receive many submissions each year for the Green Impact Special Awards, and...

May 2019 is the 100 th edition of the Greenlines newsletter! To celebrate this milestone we’re looking back to some previous issues of the University of Cambridge’s sustainability newsletter, first published in 1995. Greenlines Issue 1 was published in November 1995. It was introduced as “the first newsletter in what is...

On 21 May, the Environment and Energy section paid a visit to Oxford to meet our counterparts from the Oxford Sustainability team, in the stunning surrounds of Worcester College. As ancient Universities with devolved structures who dominate the cities we occupy, there is much we can learn from each other, so the goal of...