go! October newsletter: Your sustainable choices matter

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October 2023

Hi,

Whether you are a student or member of staff, this month there is something for everyone to do to help tackle the climate emergency. From upping your waste knowledge as part of Recycle Week, to registering to vote.

We also have plenty of ways to keep you cycling through the winter and the awarding winning UoN sport team have tips to even make your workout more sustainable!

So let’s get going!

Welcome to all our new subscribers this month!
Together we can make a difference.

Things you can do now

Tips for living sustainably

Noelle Zrelli, a second year Veterinary Medicine student, gives some tips for sustainable living. Which ones will you try?

Read the blog

Brighten up giveaway

The annual Brighten Up campaign promotes safe cycling during the darker months. To help keep you cycling this winter, we're giving away a Proviz Reflect360 cycling jacket to a lucky winner!

Find out more and enter

Have you registered to vote in Nottingham?

As a university student, you can vote in local elections at both your home and term-time addresses.

Find out how

Last chance to win £50 voucher with Green Rewards

Green Rewards rewards your daily sustainable actions. Sign up before 31 October to win.

Find out more

Conservation on campus

Get your hands dirty with conservation activities on our campuses. Throughout Autumn there are chances for everyone to help create a memorial woodland walk on UP and much more.

Get involved

News and announcements

Funding boost for plant-based ‘Cheese from Peas’

Alternative protein research has received funding from Innovate UK to develop commercial processes for new products. ‘Cheese from Peas’ is being developed by UoN researchers and spin-out company The Good Pulse Company, turning yellow peas grown in the UK into a sustainable plant-based cheese.

Find out more

Nottingham engineers part of carbon capture project

Researchers in the Faculty of Engineering have a crucial role to play in a ground-breaking carbon capture project that’s received a big funding boost.

Read more

Placement to focus on water

Akintunde Kuye (Tunde) from the NHS Leadership Academy has joined the Sustainability Team on a placement focusing on water use on campus; our daily use and also how we can safely reduce, reuse, and recycle water.

Find out more

SB community hen project

Founded in 2018, the hen project now has 30 laying hens. Its primary goal is self-sufficiency through the provision of fresh, eggs for campus users, and students can participate in different ways.

Find out more

Night time hopper bus

A free evening hopper bus service is being trialled through the winter to make it easier and safer to get back home to Lenton and Beeston. It will stop at libraries and other key locations on both University Park and Jubilee.

Find out more

Time to celebrate!

UoN Sport wins sustainability award

The University's Professional Services 2023 Award for ‘Contribution to Sustainability’ went to UoN Sport in an acknowledgement of their efforts to secure a sustainable future in sport. Congratulations! From saving energy, to reducing waste, to community outreach, read more about #GreenerandGold.

Watch how UoN Sport are committed to sustainability

go! Greener Halls Competition

Students in on-campus catered halls plus Melton Hall are competing to save energy this term. The hall that saves the most wins a prize.

We're at the halfway point of the competition. Currently Rutland Hall are leading the way, followed by Lenton & Wortley and then Ancaster Hall. Keep up the good work! See how all the halls are doing on the live energy dashboard.

On-campus halls create 4.8m kg of CO2 yearly. Per student, that’s almost the same as flying from London to New York!

Upcoming events

16 - 22 Oct

Recycle Week

It's Recycle Week! Are you recycling correctly? At UoN, people put the right thing in the right bin only 37% of the time! We can do better than that! Check our campus Waste A-Z.

Find out more

October & November

Dr Bike is on campus

Dr Bike is a free bike maintenance service, open to all staff and students. During October and November there are bonus bike sales and Notts Police are offering security bike marking.

See the dates

22 - 26 October

Youth social action week

Presented by the Nottingham Youth Climate Assembly, free event including hands-on wildlife conservation, sustainable transport sessions, community food projects, green building visits and more.

Book on

Hi,

Welcome to all our new subscribers this month! Together we can make a difference.