The Sustainability Team is available to provide advice, training and support to help staff and students better understand and apply sustainability into their work and studies at Greenwich. If you would like to learn more around the global issues, please find below a series of links to videos, websites, organisations and projects that will explain, inspire and enable learning, action and change.
A glossary of common terms and acronyms can be found here.
Videos
- Sustainability explained in 2 minutes (animation)
- What is Climate Change?
- A Youtuber focussed on explaining global issues using animation
- The Story of Stuff (online documentaries)
- Sustainability 101 (made by our own Head of Sustainability)
- United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
- What is Biodiversity (WWF)
- Leonardo DiCaprio’s UN Climate Speech 2014
- The Guardian Environmental Video (with Greta Thunberg)
- David Attenborough’s COP26 Speech
- The Psychology of Climate Change
- Why Climate Change is a Threat to Human Rights
Podcasts & Programmes
- BBC Nature & Environment (Podcasts)
- Climate Change The Facts (with David Attenborough)
- Down to Earth Podcast (Hubbub)
- Blue Planet 2 (BBC)
- TED Talks
- The Do Lectures
- Overview (an astronaut’s perspective of Earth)
Websites
- Tools to understand and apply sustainability (The Natural Step)
- The Materials Sustainability Index (for apparel & footwear)(developed by Nike (Creative Commons))
- Carbon Footprint Calculator
- The Wild Network – Connecting Kids with Nature
- The Do-Nation (donate by Doing – sustainably!)
- The Guardian Environment. Probably the best coverage of any UK press for UK and world issues
- The Ecologist magazine
- Fast Co-Exist
- United Nations Environment Programme
- Why COP26 is vital for Business
Organisations Applying Sustainability Effectively
- Forum for the Future
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development
- Unilever (Sustainable Living Plan)
- Marks & Spencer (Plan A)
- The NHS (A Greener NHS)
- Smith School of Enterprise & the Environment
- UK Green Building Council
- Business in the Community
Sustainability in Higher Education
- The Environmental Association of Universities & Colleges (EAUC). Register for free as Greenwich is a member.
- UNESCO
- United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Reports:
- Smith School of Enterprise & the Environment
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development
- IPCC Reports on Climate Change
- Higher Education Statistics Agency Environmental Information (all UK HEI’s)
Events:
