For eight years in a row, Cambridge University students have found time in their busy exam schedules to help audit our Green Impact teams. This year, more students than ever joined in and we wanted to say a huge thank you! Green Impact is a scheme developed by the National Union of Students (now SOS-UK), bringing staff and...

All of us have had to adapt to significant upheaval over the past couple of months. Most of our lab users are currently distant from the labs and can’t expect a return to how things were. Martin and the Green Labs initiative will also be unable to visit labs around the University for the foreseeable future. Therefore, we...

The UK’s first ever ‘Food Waste Action Week’ takes place from 11 May, following a UK government announcement t ied with January’s release of the Environment Bill . Here we focus on how the University of Cambridge is tackl ing food waste, as well as what University staff and students can do at home. The University Catering...

May 2020 is National Walking Month and, given that it’s currently one of the government-sanctioned forms of daily exercise in the UK, walking may already be a regular and cherished part of your day. If you're yet to get into walking however, or are just starting out, I’m here to share some ideas about taking those first...