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It’s that time of year again - we’ve had our festive fun and we’re now thinking about all the positive ...
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We’ve handed over to one of our Hedgehog Friendly Campus members, 1st year Zoology student Hazel Dudley, who has provided ...
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I think it’s fair to say that our first ‘Big Green Event’ of the year was a pretty big success ...
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So far, we’ve had some fantastic project plans submitted from this year’s Green Impact teams. One of these is from ...
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Just because it’s Halloween doesn’t mean there has to be a scary ending. But year on year, the aftermath of ...
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Today was a really great ‘day at the office’ - and by that, I mean that for the majority of ...
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As the new academic year begins (how is it that time already?!) we open up this year’s applications for Green ...
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The 2019/20 Green Impact toolkit is now live! As last year was the first time that all teams have completed ...
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This week we are handing over the blog to Fran from the Accommodation and Commercial Services - 22a Endcliffe Crescent Green ...
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Read the new Green Impact blog written by Chloe, one of this year's Green Impact Project Assistants. Chloe writes about ...
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We have handed the Green Impact blog over to the ACS Project Assistants Nyeiri and Patrick. They are going to ...
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This year the Student Recruitment and Admissions and Global Engagement Green Impact team have been working a bit closer to ...
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We are speeding towards February and that can only mean one thing - the Sustainable Skills and Education (SuSEd) series ...
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It’s nearly time to head home for the holidays, but there is one last thing to be done on Friday ...
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Read the new Green Impact blog written by Theo Thomson, one of this year's Green Impact Project Assistants. He is ...
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Read the new Green Impact blog written by Dot Curtis, one of this year's Green Impact Project Assistants, which looks ...
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Are you interested in helping your university become more sustainable and developing valuable career skills in the process? If so, ...
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2018 is Green Impact Sheffield’s 10th birthday! To celebrate this landmark year, and in recognition of your feedback, we are ...
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Last Thursday was the 2017/18 Green Impact awards ceremony and sustainability showcase! This year's hard work paid off, with over ...
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Read the new Green Impact blog written by Caroline, one of this year's student Green Impact project assistants. Caroline writes ...
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Ever wondered what creatures are crawling around our campus? Now's your chance to discover them! Come along to Green Impact ...
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Green Impact met up with the Student’s Union Development Officer, Megan McGrath, to talk about the Zero Waste shop that’s ...
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We've handed the Green Impact Blog over to Residence Life today. Emma tells us about an upcoming Zero Waste Life ...
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We’ve handed the blog over to our students today! Following from University Mental Health Day, Hetty gives us some top tips ...
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We’ve handed the blog over to our students today! Minna provides us with some of the main reasons why it's ...
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We’ve handed the Green Impact blog over to CiCS Green Impact team today, who give us an update on their ...
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We’ve handed the blog over to our students today! Calsie gives us five ways to start a zero waste lifestyle ...
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In anticipation of International Women's Day, we've handed the Green Impact blog over to Nafeela in the Economics Green Impact ...
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We’ve handed the blog over to our students today! Laura explains how you can have your say on the university's ...
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We’ve handed the blog over to Sarah at Urban Studies and Planning today! Sarah talks to us about the wonderful ...
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We've handed the Green Impact blog over to Student Recruitment & Admissions with Global Engagement Green Impact team today! Ashley, ...
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We’ve handed the blog over to Andy at ACS today! Andy talks to us about a new community fridge project ...
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Welcome back after the Christmas break! I hope it's been a nice, restful one. I've been busy scheduling this year's ...
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We’ve handed the blog over to our students today! Jacques talks us through some hard truths about the environmental impact ...
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We’ve handed the blog over to our students today! Emilia writes about the rise of Zero Waste culture in Sheffield ...
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We’ve handed the blog over to our students today! Calsie writes about the craftvism event held by the SU last month ...
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We’ve handed the blog over to our students today! Laura writes about the SU's petition for a dedicated sustainability team ...
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This Friday the 24th of November marks the annual consumer horror show that is Black Friday. Early Christmas shoppers will ...
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This week, colleagues in New Spring House donated time, energy and great gifts to pack up shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child. Operation Christmas ...
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It's Self Care Week this week! Self Care Week is an annual national awareness week that focuses on embedding support for self care ...
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We’ve handed the blog over to our students today! Jacques writes about his impression of the SU's Ask Your University ...
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Wondering how you can make your bonfire night more environmentally friendly? Here's some top tips! Don't forget to get in touch ...
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We’ve handed the blog over to our students today! Read on for some top tips on greening your home life ...
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We're handing the Green Impact blog over to the Biomedical Science team today! If you or your team wants to ...
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We’ve handed the blog over to our students today! Read some great film reviews from the SU Environmental Film Festival ...
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Thank you to everyone who attended the Meet and Greet event last Thursday! It would be extremely beneficial if you ...
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Did you know it takes twice as much water to produce a litre of British cows’ milk compared with soya milk, or that for the ...
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Want to help make our campus greener while gaining valuable career skills? Apply today to become a Student Project assistant! ...
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The Green Impact blog is being handed over to the Faculty of Engineering - Central Services team this week! This post ...
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The Green Impact blog is being handed over to the ACS and UNICUS teams this week! This post is by Andrew ...
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The Green Impact blog is being handed over to the Urban Studies and Planning team this week! This post is ...
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Valentine’s Day has come for this year and the Green Impact blog couldn’t help being affected by the spirit of ...
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This week, the Green Impact blog interviews Christopher Jones, an academic taking part in our SusSEd series! This post is ...
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This week, the Green Impact blog interviews Simon Geller, lead for the CiCs team! This post is by Lee Morris, ...
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The Green Impact blog is being handed over to the Management School team this week! This post is by Heather Crookes, ...
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This week, the Green Impact blog interviews Jane Antcliff, last year's team lead for the University Library team! This post ...
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The Green Impact blog is being handed over to the Student Services - New Spring House team this week! This post is ...
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It's almost Christmas... soon you'll be cosy at home,  surrounded by your loved ones. Before you go, though, make sure you switch ...
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As the Christmas season is in deep, what could be more lovely than gathering with friends and family and creating ...
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This post is written by Kirsty Bowen, Media Relations Officer in the Corporate Communications department. As part of her role, she ...
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Occasioned by this cute drawing that Krizand Vaz, a student volunteering for Green Impact,  created, I'm resurfacing a post on the ...
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This post is written by Bai Zheng, Green Impact Project Assistant for the Student Services English Language Teaching Centre (ELTC) ...
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The Green Impact blog is being handed over to the SITraN team this week! This post is by David Stevenson, the ...
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The Green Impact blog is being handed over to the SITraN team this week! This post is by Charlotte Enright, a ...
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The Green Impact blog is being handed over to the SITraN team this week! This post is by David Stevenson, the ...
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The Green Impact blog is being handed over to the SITraN team this week! This post is by David Stevenson, the ...
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The Green Impact blog is being handed over to the ACS teams this week! This post is by Fran Bird, Contracts ...
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The Green Impact blog is being handed over to the ACS teams this week! This post is by Andy Woffindin, team ...
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The Green Impact blog is being handed over to the ACS teams this week! This post is by Cally Williams from ...
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The Green Impact blog is being handed over to the ACS teams this week! This post is by Kate Iotova, one of ...
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The Green Impact blog is being handed over to the ACS teams this week! This post is by Natalie Faulkner, Accommodation Assistant, ...
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The Green Impact blog is being handed over to the Student Services teams this week! This post is by India ...
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The Green Impact blog is being handed over to the Student Services teams this week! This post is by India ...
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The Green Impact blog is being handed over to the Student Services teams this week! This post is by Kimberley ...
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The Green Impact blog is being handed over to the Student Services teams this week! This post is by Rita ...
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The Green Impact blog is being handed over to the Student Services teams for this week! This post is by ...
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The Sustainability Skills & Education (SusSEd) series is a collection of engaging and interactive lunchtime talks and workshops, designed to ...
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We're back! After a bit of a cool down period for website maintenance, our site is getting back to business ...
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/125442487@N02/16265797609/in/pool-thermal_image/ Visualising heat loss and becoming more thermally aware could engender a greater understanding of energy consumption and of everyday ...
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Renovation work has started on the Hadfield rooftop as the Materials Science & Engineering Innovation Project gets underway. The Innovation ...
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Final date for entries is 12:00 on July 24th.  Entrants from University of Sheffield only ...
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We want to know what exactly it is you love about Sheffield. Is it your lunchtime stroll through Weston Park, ...
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By 5pm July 20th, please log your steps and miles in the form, linked at the bottom of this post.  ...
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It’s Recycle Week and it’s time to think about where to put your rubbish! Whilst around 80% of all waste ...
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A Pay-As-You-Feel revolution has been sweeping the country, cooking up surplus food to feed bellies, not bins and now, The ...
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SusSEd is our very own sustainability lecture and workshop series for staff and students here in Sheffield. In 2015, it ...
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It has been an incredible year for Green Impact here in Sheffield and our commitment to sustainability has gone from ...
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Special Awards give Green Impact teams a chance to go beyond the workbook. Teams use their creativity, sustainability know-how and ...
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An incredible 57 teams submitted workbooks this year and were presented with their slate awards at the Green Impact Sustainability ...
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A green wall is livening up the brick work around Firth Court thanks to the BMS Green Impact team! The ...
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With 57 departments to audit across two days, time was tight this year for the Green Impact auditing process! Luckily, ...
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Our recent Fairtrade Fortnight Bake Off has revealed some very talented bakers at the University! For this year’s Fairtrade Fortnight, ...
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Today is the final day of our Greening week! I hope you have enjoyed the posts so far, and that ...
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If you’re interested in environmental issues and keen to make a positive impact, the Green Impact auditing process is for ...
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At the University of Sheffield, the amount we recycle increased from 43 % in 2008/9 to 82% in 2009/10 and ...
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At the University of Sheffield, 90% of the waste that is generated is currently recycled; that’s great, but it could ...
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“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.” (Marshall McLuhan, 1965) In everyday living, we are constantly ...
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This week is our annual Greening week at the Psychology department! As part of this, the Psychology Energy and Environment ...
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The Corporate Affairs team are playing their part in the fight against global warming. They have created this video to ...
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A couple of years’ ago we held a sunflower growing competition at SITraN which was received with much enthusiasm amongst ...
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Fairtrade fortnight 2015 falls between 24th Feb-8th March with the focus this year on the core commodities of cocoa, sugar ...
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As part of this year’s Green Impact attempt at getting a Silver award in the grounds workbook we have had ...
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Chelsea Caton is SITraN's Green Impact Project Assistant (GIPA) this year. She is proving to be a Godsend with her ...
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This week the Green Impact blog is being hosted by SITraN. This year we are concentrating on the 'Grounds' workbook ...
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Choose one product and switch to Fairtrade The Fairtrade Bake Off! Fairtrade coffee mornings! Scroll down to find out more ...
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Green Impact’s Go Green Week 2015 is all about recycling!We have set ourselves a target of 70% general waste recycled ...
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Natalie King Normally I ignore all the general emails that are sent to my University account. They are usually not ...
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The results of the Big Christmas Switch Off are in!Over the Christmas break, we asked Green Impact teams and staff ...
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See what our Green Impact teams have pledged to do this year with their Green New Year’s resolutions! If you ...
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The Sustainability Skills and Education Programme (SusSEd) is back for 2015! SusSEd breaks sustainability down into manageable topics with lectures ...
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Daniel Lindeque The New Year is upon us and many will be taking 2015 as a fresh start and thinking ...
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In UK alone, 24 million slices of bread are thrown away every single day along with 5.9 million glasses of ...
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We have been counting down to Christmas this year with our Green Advent Calendar on Twitter. Every day, we have ...
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The United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Lima, Peru from December 1st 2014 marked the twentieth annual Conference of ...
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by Guy TallentireChristmas is a time of happiness and joy for many and during the festive season, we often indulge ...
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This Christmas, it’s lights out for the Faculty of Engineering’s Big Christmas Switch Off! The event has been organised by ...
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Here at Green Impact, we have started down the countdown to Christmas and we think that there's no reason why ...
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Green Impact is back for 2014/15 after the huge successes of last year! This week saw 44 students join the ...
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Hello! Just a quick post to introduce myself, my name is Jess and I am the new Sustainable Behaviour Assistant ...
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This story appeared in the Faculty of Science Newsletter: An eco-friendly idea by two colleagues in the Department of Chemistry ...
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It's simple. You leave the office, you switch everything off. Lights, screens, chargers, in fact anything that doesn't legitimately still ...
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So today is deadline day and it falls on me to write our final blog. I had a few ideas ...
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I’ve always found it relatively easy to be that eager individual in team meetings, who volunteers themselves for everything and ...
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When we were setting up our Green Impact Google Community, we got together to think about ways to promote and ...
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Hi, I'm Steven. I was placed with Luke, Rachel and Sara as the Green Impact Project Assistant for HR. The ...
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Human Resources have been taking part in Green Impact for a few years now, but we like to keep it ...
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Evidence for climate change For our final blog I thought I'd review the latest evidence for man-made climate change. This ...
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It’s Easy Being Green: Musings of a Student Eco Warrior It’s a running joke with my friends that I am ...
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Starting out at the Dental School This week the team of Green Impacter’s here at the Dental School are taking ...
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3 short and sweet tips to end the week. 13.  Make great use of your GIPA Nearly 40 Green Impact ...
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10.  Brilliant Biodiversity Green Impact criteria S014 talks about proactive initiatives to sustain or encourage biodiversity. This is the perfect excuse for ...
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7.  Energy Fairies Perhaps distant cousins of the tooth fairy, the energy fairy (or fairies should I say) have been ...
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4.  Green Themed Coffee Mornings Most people love (Fairtrade) tea, coffee or cake. If they don’t love tea, coffee or ...
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1.  Puzzling posters invite questions Intrigued by the wide variety of Welsh Carbon Trust posters, the Department of Cardiovascular Science ...
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Here in CiCS we are conscious that not only do we need to reduce our own carbon footprint, but that ...
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The Biophilia hypothesis suggests that people have an inherent "urge to affiliate with other forms of life" (Wilson, 1984); an ...
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We all know it’s hard to change. And the behaviours we want to change most seem hardest. How many of ...
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Over the past 50 years, levels of mobility have increased greatly, raising concern about increasing car use, and resultant implications ...
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Simple, yet so easy to forget.  If we knew the impact of leaving equipment plugged in, and the amount of ...
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The Psychology Energy and Environment Team (PEET) will be taking over the blog for this week. Each day we will ...
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We’ve all heard this saying, probably from older family members, but does it really have any relevance in today’s disposable ...
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I am very fortunate that when I joined the Green Impact group in my department it was already well established ...
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A big thank you to Louisa for her post on Wednesday about joining Green impact as a new team, new ...
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I was introduced to Green Impact after just a few months working in my new position with ACS (University of ...
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Green Impact – ACS Blog One for all, All for one- How to grow your GI teamThree years ago, ACS had ...
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When we see the words ‘cutting down’ in relation to the environment, we assume the worst and imagine logging in ...
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I cycle to work everyday and couldn’t imagine ever wanting to commute another way. I honestly feel really sorry for ...
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Something happened to me over the Christmas break. I stayed up late one evening after my husband had gone to ...
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I’m vegetarian. It can be socially awkward, 'uncool' and hard to justify. It always invites the question, ‘WHY?’ and my ...
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Sustainable development: “ Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet ...
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Anyone who knows me will know that I like to ask questions. I’m not satisfied until I understand WHY something ...
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Well this is my last day for writing a blog in 2013. With only 2 more days of work until ...
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Today sees the first of our Student Services Green Travel to Work days. All staff have been asked to think ...
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In Student Services we have a Green Impact tip of the month displayed at the start of each of our ...
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Last year much of our Green Impact work was hindered by our accommodation - the team was housed in 2 ...
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This week's blog comes to you from Student Services Department. As the Department lead on Green Impact I have the ...
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Hi all, This is the last day of SITraN hosting the Green Impact blog and today we are hearing from ...
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Hi, my name is Chris Hobbs and I'm the Green Impact Champion for SITraN. This is a new role and ...
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As I have already mentioned we submit our labs at SITraN for the labs tab in Green Impact. This is ...
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This year sees the appearance of a new tab in the Green Impact workbook, the Grounds Tab. So, not only ...
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Hi, this week it is the turn of SITraN to bring you the Green Impact blog. SITraN, The Sheffield Institute ...
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Earlier this year Green Impact organised a campaign to blackout the Arts Tower. it was a good choice as it ...
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Yesterday I mentioned I would write about printing and copying. Reducing the amount of printing and copying is a substantial ...
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Hello I can remember someone telling me “never volunteer for anything!” I never listened as it appears I've volunteered to ...
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As Kim kindly introduced me I am your new Sustainable Behaviour Assistant here to help you with Green Impact for ...
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Well the time has finally come for me to say goodbye to my role at the University of Sheffield. I ...
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We already have 3 brand-new sign ups for Green Impact 2013/14, but we're not stopping there - the Carbon Management ...
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If you were unlucky enough to miss the BeCause Showcase on Friday, you missed a lot. We had rousing presentations ...
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A summary of the results of the Arts Tower Blackout on March 15th ...
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This year, we are awarding the GIPA who has really gone above and beyond for their team(s). To nominate yours, ...
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Head to the Google doc and check whether your team list is correct. If it isn't, email your corrections to k.croasdale@sheffield.ac.uk ...
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Feeling competitive? Get your team to complete as many actions as possible this week, fill them in on the workbook ...
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Our first university-wide GI team meeting is on December 17th at 12pm-1pm. There will be nibbles for everyone and the ...
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Head to The Green Pages to see all the GI news that's been happening recently, including GIPA training, the Barber ...
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I'm scheduling the fortnightly drop-in sessions for Wednesdays. Times and locations will vary so everyone will hopefully have a chance ...
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A couple of people have emailed me because they had forgotten their passwords and requested a reminder that hadn't arrived ...
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National Green Impact blogCheck out the first national Green Impact blog post - written by your very own Sustainable Behaviour ...
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It's slowly but surely creeping up on us...join us for free lunch and pedal-powered smoothies TOMORROW at the launch! We ...
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Welcome to the Green Impact Sheffield 2012/13 website and forum! If you have any questions or problems with your scheme ...
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