{"id":2379,"date":"2015-02-17T16:30:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T16:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/?page_id=2379"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:30:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T11:30:44","slug":"events-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/events-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:48% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"924\" height=\"1232\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/04\/IMG-20220923-WA0005-edited.jpg\" alt=\"The Sustainability Team &amp; SU\" class=\"wp-image-7847 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/04\/IMG-20220923-WA0005-edited.jpg 924w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/04\/IMG-20220923-WA0005-edited-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/04\/IMG-20220923-WA0005-edited-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/04\/IMG-20220923-WA0005-edited-263x350.jpg 263w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/04\/IMG-20220923-WA0005-edited-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 924px) 100vw, 924px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Throughout the year, you will see events and campaigns organised by the Sustainability Team to drive positive change, highlight impacts and illustrate how we as a University are reducing our environmental impacts.\u00a0<strong>Keep an eye out for emails and your portal! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Want to Get Involved?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to be involved in our scheduled activities, or have an innovative idea of your own, we would love to hear from you! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gre.ac.uk\/sustain\/team\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gre.ac.uk\/sustain\/team\">Contact us<\/a> so we can work together in bringing about more positive change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How can Events be Sustainable?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any gathering of people can have a potential negative impact on the air, soil, water, resources and people.\u00a0 \u00a0By taking sustainability planning into consideration, you have the opportunity to not only to minimise impacts but also to influence behaviour. That&#8217;s why we should encourage everyone to include sustainability into their planning process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By effective planning, you can bring <strong>positive reputation <\/strong>to your event, <strong>social inclusion <\/strong>by involving the community and <strong>financial savings <\/strong>can be made. We have created a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gre.ac.uk\/docs\/rep\/ef\/sustainable-events-guide\">Sustainable Events Guide <\/a><\/strong>to provide a whole host of ideas, no matter the size of your planned activity. Take a look at some of your events history pages to see what we have done over the years.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the year, you will see events and campaigns organised by the Sustainability Team to drive positive change, highlight impacts and illustrate how we as a University are reducing our environmental impacts.\u00a0Keep an eye out for emails and your portal! Want to Get Involved?&nbsp; If you want to be involved&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/events-2\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2379","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6784,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/fairtrade-and-greenwich\/","url_meta":{"origin":2379,"position":0},"title":"Fairtrade &amp; Greenwich","author":"David Jackson","date":"5 January 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The climate crisis is an immediate and ever-increasing threat and those in climate vulnerable countries\u202fare already seeing its impacts from droughts and crop disease to floods, heatwaves\u202fand shrinking harvests.\u00a0\u00a0 What is Fairtrade? 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