Resources and Articles

Videos

Climate Literacy Training:

Unless we have a good understanding of what the climate crisis is, what the science tells us and what we need to do about it, then critically we won’t be able to act, individually or collectively. Sustainability team has developed this 45-minute session to offer you insight into a key issue relating to your learning.

Green Careers Talk:

As part of the Sustainability Careers focused Green Week, we have invited speakers from different sectors to talk about Green Careers.

1. Working for Sustainability Leaders- Learn How Your Career Will Help Save the Planet:
   This panel discussion brings together staff working for leading sustainability driven companies delivering amazing sustainability outcomes. Our three panellists will outline their career pathways to date and will answer important questions to help students, and staff, identify how to get to that sustainability focussed job faster.
2. Sustainability Careers: Designing, Developing and Constructing a Career in the Built Environment Sector:
   This panel discussion brings together staff working in the built environment sector to discuss the importance of sustainability to it. They will talk about the importance of having sustainability aware students and graduates to the success of these companies, and the planet!
3. Sustainability Careers: How gaining experience can accelerate your career with purpose pathway?
   This panel discussion brings together three (of the many) volunteers and paid interns that have worked with the University of Greenwich’s Sustainable Development Unit. The three panellists will outline their career pathways to date and will answer important questions to help students, and staff, identify how to get to that sustainability focussed job faster.

Other 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

• 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 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

• World Business Council for Sustainable Development
• IPCC Reports on Climate Change 
• Higher Education Statistics Agency Environmental Information (all UK HEI’s)

Events

• The RSA (free in central London)
• The LSE (free in central London)