Birmingham City University Student Union has started a petition to lobby the university for more recycling facilities around the campuses. You can sign the petition here and also check out the Facebook group. I spoke to representations and campaigns officer Alex Jewitt a while ago about the union’s stance on green issues and he spoke about the union’s plans to lobby for more recycling facilities. Listen to the interview here. For more advice on recycling watch this
I recently spoke to Crispin Aubrey from the Glastonbury Festival about how the festival is trying to develop greener business practices and encourage festival goers to be more environmentally friendly. You can listen to the interview here
I’ve set up a YouTube Channel for Environmental News Onlinehere. Check out my new video I did. It’s a tour of my house looking at how I could be more environmentally friendly. Apologies about the T-Shirt it was a spur of the moment thing and I forgot to change my wardrobe. Not scripted much either. You can view it in it’s entirety here. Here is part one.
I don’t know why I never thought of sport as a way of educating people about the environment, but it looks like a great way to reach out to kids. Surfing the net recently, I came across a blog called 6footsix. It’s about the plans for a beach volleyball player called Colleen Smith to educate people about being more environmentally friendly and she aims to get kids involved by creating a “green team”.
I’m guessing if I were to talk face to face with her about the enviroment, at six foot six inches I’d probably listen to what she’s got to say! She puts temporary tattoos on her body to show how high the sea level will be in years to come to show the impact of global warming. It got me thinking about what other sportsmen and women are involved with educating people about the environment.
The coalition aims to educate people about the environment and also the extreme sports industry. It looks like its going to go far and hopefully more groups like these will start popping up within other sports too.
They’ve also said the committee is working towards publishing a sustainable sourcing code later this year which principally means using recycled products and recycling as much as possible.
Universal Studios Hollywood is going to be celebrating Earth Day 2008 by having an “eco-fair” on April 26th. It will feature celebrity appearances and displays educating people about the environment. There is also going to be a collection of hazardous waste materials.
It’s all part of Universal’s “Green is Universal” campaign to raise awareness and to make NBC Universal’s practices more environmentally friendly.
I managed to speak to Hannah Newland, the newly elected representation and campaigns officer at Birmingham City UniversityUnion of Students, about environmental issues and what she thinks the union and university should be doing.
If the above link doesn’t work you can download the interview here
I’ve done what I said to myself I wouldn’t do. I’ve left it to the last minute again. Here I am at twelve twenty five on Monday morning writing a blog post after I’ve had a week to research an article for our Environmental News Website. The article’s deadline was today. Sure I can make excuses for myself, but there is none really. So the first step in progressing comes with admitting my mistakes. This is my confession I suppose.
I’ve put it off to the last minute. When I could be doing a little at a time I haven’t. I’ve done a little and then left it and now I’ve, excuse the cliche, made a mountain out of a molehill. But it is a mountain that can be climbed. As long as I start now.
The article I’m researching involves fair trade fortnight which starts today and is going on all over the UK. I aim to look at what my university BCU is doing over the two weeks. I have emailed the representation and campaigns officer at the union and have not heard back, but I didn’t chase it up. The article could also look at what’s going on all over the UK and an interview with a fair trade spokesperson would be great. So the ideas are there, now it’s up to me to get the ball rolling.
I found the following article on the website greengirlsglobal.com. More information on the author April Capil can be found at www.aprilcapil.com. The article shows how its important to encourage children to be resourceful and creative first in order to make them more aware of how they can help to protect the environment.
