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Celebrating 果冻影院's Sustainability Champions

On Tuesday 4th September the Sustainability Team hosted 果冻影院鈥檚 sixth Sustainability Awards ceremony. The event was 果冻影院鈥檚 largest, celebrating the achievements of over 60 teams and 100 Green Champions.

Richard Jackson, 果冻影院鈥檚 Director of Sustainability, Geraint Rees, Chair of 果冻影院鈥檚 Environmental Sustainability Steering Group and Judy Long, Director of the Black Environment Network hosted the awards and thanked the teams.

果冻影院 has had so many sustainable success stories this year, from the introduction of sustainability modules, to the New Student Centre which is on target for BREEAM Outstanding and the Ditch the Disposable campaign. But 果冻影院鈥檚 biggest success is the engagement of our community which has risen considerably since our start in 2012. This event is about celebrating the hard work of our community, who together are ensuring that our organisation transitions to a zero carbon university quickly and further becomes a responsible institution. (Richard Jackson).

A Sustainable Event

This year the Sustainability Team have been working with various stakeholders to make 果冻影院 events more sustainable. Most noticeably the Office of Vice Provost Advancement, who worked hard to make the It鈥檚 All Academic Festival the first sustainable event at 果冻影院. The Awards Ceremony was no exception.

Photographs were taken on the patio of the Wilkins Terrace. A project which used Portland Stone, a durable, long lasting, local, sustainable material.

As like all of the sustainability team鈥檚 events, the ceremony was catered with an entirely vegan and vegetarian spread, with Sodexo pulling out all the stocks to make it one of the tastiest events we鈥檝e ever been to!

The Winners

The joint winners of the night were the Office of Vice Provost Advancement (OVPA) and Psychology and Language Sciences (PALS). Both teams undertook a variety of ambitious projects alongside completing the Office and Labs Green Impact workbooks. They will be enjoying a foraging away day together in autumn to celebrate. Last year PALS enjoyed a trip to the Eden Project for winning the competition, see how they got on in

PALS joint winners

This year PALS undertook a variety of projects, including inventing an urban pollution mask, upholstering the department鈥檚 furniture and creating a garden in Gordon House out of recycled materials. They also placed a camera in their catering outlets to monitor and improve food waste and ran a number of research projects on behavioural change studies and sustainability.

OVPA joint winners

OVPA organised a walk to work day, created a garden in Bidborough House and embedded sustainability into the It鈥檚 All Academic Festival. For the event, they replaced听disposable water bottles, with a water refilling station and invited the audience to bring their own bottles as part of their sustainability engagement. Biodegradable, recycled, branded water bottles were given out to those that had forgotten their bottles.

To displace plastic cups at the bar, reusable cups were available to borrow for a 拢1 deposit. This reduced a considerable amount of waste at the event. The audience also received free biodegradable glitter face painting, which was an innovative way of engaging the audience in sustainability. The Sustainability Team ran a number of sustainability tours on the day, and there were numerous talks on听sustainability issues.

Special Awards

A number of special awards were given out to students and staff who had made an exceptional commitment to sustainability at 果冻影院 and beyond. They are as follows:

Sustainability Impact Award

The winner of the Sustainability Impact Award was the student-led project, Zero Food Waste. The society, (set up last academic year), was created to tackle food waste and food insecurity. The project sees student volunteers transport food leftover from 果冻影院 cafes听to nearby homeless shelters.听

Student Award for Outstanding Commitment to Sustainability 听

The student sustainability award was given to Emily Maw听from the Mathematics Department. Emily led the team to Platinum victory within their first year!

Staff Award for Outstanding Commitment to Sustainability听

With so many nominations for this category, there were two winners!

Cristina Azevedo also received an award for her exceptional commitment to sustainability at 果冻影院.听Cristina has driven sustainability at LMCB and in 16 labs at the MRC. She initiated multiple projects above and beyond Green Impact which reduced the energy consumption and material use of labs.听

Sustainability Education Award听

Dr. Aeli Roberts听was Highly Commended for the Sustainability Education Award. Throughout the last 10 years Dr Aeli Roberts has brought her unique combination of skills (in Chemistry, Law - as a qualified barrister - and Construction) to create and teach modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate level in sustainability and the way sustainability issues interact with the Built Environment. She has brought on board other research staff in this area so that Sustainability is now a key research theme within the School.听

Winner: Dr. Aiduan Borrion听

Dr Borrion received the overall Sustainability Education Award for leading the development and delivery of a short course 鈥溾��. The course was developed in collaboration with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and supported by 果冻影院 life learning investment fund in 2016. The four-day course runs twice every year at 果冻影院. It has attracted over 100 industrial professionals from 20 countries and is well known internationally for sustainability education. 听

Project Awards

果冻影院 Estates received a Gold Award for undertaking sustainable building work, initiating the Ditch the Disposable Campaign and creating the Bidborough House wellbeing garden. You can find out more on 果冻影院 Estates鈥櫶齱ebsite here.

The Division of Psychiatry received an听Excellence听Award for reducing resource-use in the department.

The School of Pharmacy Library achieved an Excellence Award for undertaking events in their听Medicinal Garden to link it to research in their depratment.

Green Impact Office Awards

Bronze听

• Earth Sciences听
• Cortexlab听
• Epidemiology & Public Health听
• 果冻影院 Space & Climate Physics听
• Economics

Silver听

• Residences听
• 果冻影院 Division of Surgery & Interventional Science

Gold听

• History of Art听
• 果冻影院 Innovation & Enterprise听
• DSS听
• Greek & Latin听
• Planning Team听
• Student & Registry Services听
• 果冻影院 Language & Speech Science Library听
• Royal Free Medical Library听
• 果冻影院 Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Library听
• Main Library听
• Central Library听
• Science Library听

Platinum听

• Mathematics听
• Sodexo听
• Wickford Library听
• 果冻影院 Institute of Archaeology Library听
• Institute of Neurology, Queen Square Library听
• The Joint Library of Opthalmology, Moorfields Eye Hospital & 果冻影院 Institute of Ophthalmology听
• 果冻影院 School of Pharmacy Library听
• 果冻影院 Cruciform Hub Library听

Excellence听

• PALS听
• BSCPM Green Onions听
• ION听
• 果冻影院 Careers听
• Action on Hearing Loss & Ear Institute Libraries
• LMCB Greeners听
• 果冻影院 FBA: Green Counts听
• OVPA听
• 果冻影院 Eastman Dental Library听

Green Impact Lab Awards

Bronze听

• HPF Laboratory听
• Wakefield St. Brainiacs听
• Dolphin Group Labs听
• ICH Laboratories听
• Cortical Processing Laboratory听
• Infection and Immunity Cruciform听
• Bahler Group听
• Heritage Science Laboratory听
• 果冻影院 Respiratory Laboratory听

Silver听

• Research Dept. of Pathology听
• SoP Teaching Labs听
• IoO Green Labs听
• 果冻影院 Surgery听
• Cruciform 3.4听

Gold听

• Rheumatology Rayne听
• Sobell Laboratories听

Platinum听

• PALS Laboratories听
• Biochemcial Engineering听

Excellence听

• Institute of Archaeology听
• CEGE Labs Green Group听
• LMCB Greeners听
• Geography Laboratories听
• Biochemical Engineering