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<\/a>Alex enjoying the views of the fjords in Norway<\/p><\/div>\n
I’ve got a background in Physical Geography, so I am a geek in anything from climate change to natural hazards to glaciers. For the past year I’ve been doing an MA with Forum for the Future <\/a>in \u2018Leadership for Sustainable Development\u2019.<\/p>\n My masters course has allowed me to sample sustainability in a range of organisations, from a charity to a local authority, from Bank of America to a multi-national company. It also allowed me to look at the idea of \u2018systems change\u2019, for example, how can we cause change for sustainability in the complex food system, or the energy system? I\u2019m looking forward to putting my learning into practice at Greenwich.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll be looking after the Sustainability Management System and helping Emily out with other sustainability projects. These projects include Green Impact<\/a> and the Carbon Management Plan<\/a>, and I\u2019ll also be helping with sustainability events such as the Green Week. Green Impact is a behaviour change project where teams are rewarded for their efforts, so get in contact with the sustainability team if you would like to know more! I\u2019m especially looking forward to getting to know the sustainability champions and spotting new opportunities for sustainability at Greenwich.<\/p>\n Greenwich is a leader in Sustainability within Higher Education, coming 6th<\/sup> this year in the People & Planet\u2019s \u2018Green League<\/a>\u2019, and this is what made me so attracted to working here. So far everyone has been friendly and welcoming and I\u2019m very impressed with the garden!<\/p>\n As I settle in, you may see me wandering round the campuses so I hope to meet as many staff and students as possible on my travels. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at a.giles@greenwich.ac.uk<\/a>, or if you have any questions about Sustainability at the University of Greenwich then email sustainability@greenwich.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi, I\u2019m Alex and I\u2019m excited to be joining the sustainability team for a year as the new Sustainability Projects Assistant! I’ve got a background in Physical Geography, so I am a geek in anything from climate change to natural hazards to glaciers. For the past year I’ve been doing… Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":1076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1],"tags":[120,129,163,244,285,295,324],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability-team","category-uncategorised","tag-education-for-sustainable-development","tag-environmental-management-system","tag-greenwich","tag-people-and-planet","tag-staff-sustainability-champions","tag-sustainability","tag-university-of-greenwich"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/08\/alex_giles.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7698,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/7698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n