• Purchasing Peat: the hidden ingredient inside our shopping baskets

    Have you ever considered that the products you buy at the supermarket or garden centre could be causing damage to nature and climate? In most cases, you would never know, as this information is often hidden or hard to find, and this is precisely why we are asking retailers to make that change and offer…

  • Lancashire Climate Action Network (LancsCAN)… goes live!

    Today, the website for the newly created Lancashire Climate Action Network (LancsCAN) goes officially live. LancsCAN was formed in June 2023 following the first Lancashire Community Climate Action Forum event held on 17 May 2023 at Edge Hill University, with SustainNET as the lead organiser. The Network’s membership currently comprises around 100 people from about 60 community-oriented organisations from…

  • Edge Hill Ranked Top Tier Eco-friendly University

    Edge Hill University has been ranked a ‘Platinum Tier’ university in an annual UK study of the sector’s sustainability credentials. The University is one of just six universities overall who achieved the highest rank in the Uswitch Green Universities 2023 Report, which looks at those who are leading the way in terms of green initiatives…

  • COP27 – Something’s got to change

    It’s that time of the year again for the annual COP (Conference of the Parties) climate summit. This time we are in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, for COP27. Last year the UK hosted COP26 in Glasgow. The COP process is the political decision-making arm of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Intergovernmental…

  • 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…

  • 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…