• A poetic reverie: reflections on a year spent getting closer to nature

    Lecturer, researcher, poet and outdoor enthusiast Victoria Ekpo looks back on the first year of FootstepsNW, the walking and activity group she founded for Black women and their friends in the north west. It was important that our group expanded to include others, like the environment does for us daily, and that this generosity be…

  • Climate Change Expert Panel

    In the run up to COP26, Geoff was invited to join a ‘Climate Change Expert Panel’ hosted by the International Interdisciplinary Environmental Association and the Laboratorio Nacional de Ciencias de la Sostenibilidad-IE at UNAM in Mexico, the largest university in Latin America. The Chair was Dr. Paola M. Garcia-Meneses, a member of the Climate Change…

  • Can Poetry Help us Articulate the Universal as Personal?

    As the spotlight lands firmly on the upcoming COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, I have reached into my poetry collection and dwelt a little on the poems that tell stories of my relationship with the world around me. John Clare’s All Nature Has A Feeling could not resonate more. We are grappling with the day-to-day questions of…

  • Sustainability, Climate Change and ‘Disruption’

    Disruption. It can take many forms. It can come suddenly and unexpectedly, like an un-forecasted storm or major crisis like the Covid-19 pandemic. We may see it is coming, such as the planned transport workers strike in Glasgow during the COP26 Climate Summit. Or it may be a gradual process, like the ‘disruptive’ changes that…

  • The Sustainability Festival is coming… be prepared to connect, engage and be inspired

    The University’s Sustainability Festival – taking place Monday 1st to Friday 5th November – is a chance for everyone at Edge Hill and beyond to come together to feel part of a collective of people that want to make our world a better, more sustainable place. It coincides with the first week of the COP26 Climate Summit…

  • Excitement builds for Edge Hill’s major new Sustainability Festival

    Excitement is building ahead of Edge Hill’s major new Sustainability Festival, which takes place next week.  The University campus will be buzzing with activity between Monday 1 and Friday 5 November as students, staff, eco-friendly organisations and members of the public come together to share ideas on how to work and live more sustainably.  The festival, organised to coincide with…

  • Edge Hill shines a light on sustainability with major new festival

    Edge Hill University is shining a light on the importance of sustainability with a major new festival.  Sustainability improves society and makes the world a better place for us and future generations while protecting natural habitats and resources – an outlook which underpins the University’s principles and approach to providing quality higher education.  To celebrate that dedication and encourage students, staff and the wider community to look at the world…

  • Renewables 2021 Global Status Report

    A political economist at Edge Hill University is among some of the world’s leading experts in renewable energy to feature in a new report highlighting the serious challenges that lie ahead for global clean energy targets.  Christopher Dent, a Professor of International Business, has featured in the latest REN21 Renewables report, which shows that despite a historic decline of 4% in primary energy demand, polluting G20 countries barely met and still missed their renewable energy targets.  Prof Dent provided his expert opinion…

  • Biden marks the United States’ symbolic return to Paris Climate Agreement

    As President Biden sent a message to the world on his first day in office by signing an executive order for the United States to re-join the Paris Climate Agreement, a political economist at Edge Hill highlights the importance of the symbolic move.  Only hours after being sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden’s first actions in the Oval…

  • Overcoming the psychological barriers to Climate Change

    On the 27th November Geoff Beattie gave a keynote on ‘Overcoming the psychological barriers to climate change’ at the Italian National Geographic Festival of Science in Rome.  Geoff and Laura McGuire were independently invited to contribute to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee’s report on “COP26: Principles and Priorities – a…