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‘Spotlight on’ months allow the University to raise awareness of sustainability issues over an entire month and our recent Spotlight on Sustainable Food month was a great success and has led to change in many parts of the University . Next month we hope to replicate this success, this time in the area of travel. Travel is...

Many of us do not travel just to and from work, we also travel as part of our work, either within the city or further afield. Business travel, be it for research or other work, is a part of University life but it is not without its environmental impact. Of all travel modes, domestic flights are by the far the most carbon...

We have just added some new ‘pictorial’ bin labels to our website following feedback from staff that the existing ‘infographic’ labels, developed by our waste contractor Mick George, were not intuitive for users, and the icons were hard to interpret from a distance. We therefore have new ones which display large, simple...

There’s a lot going on with the Living Laboratory for Sustainability at the moment: The Cambridge Carbon Challenge will see its second round of judging at the beginning of April. Teams are in the process of compiling their business cases which will be submitted within the next few days. The judges will then determine whose...