The Colour Hyde Park Project: Fusing art and development
Hello – I’m Ale, my current sustainability project is to develop the second phase of Colour Hyde Park Project! We are looking to create inclusion...
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How to reduce the increasing environmental footprint of aviation
Although the aviation industry emphasizes that aviation is only responsible for around 2.5% of global CO2 emissions (Chèze et al., 2012) there is no denial...
Local research towards global goals: The 2020 Student Sustainability Research Conference
As a Student Sustainability Architect working on the Leeds Sustainable Curriculum and Conference projects, the days and weeks leading up to the 2020 Student Sustainability...
"No-one is too small to make a difference" - Greta Thunberg
“No one is too small to make a difference” is an inspiring book by Greta Thunberg, the girl who in 2018 started a global youth...
Fresh Water – the truth for Aboriginals communities in Canada
Water covers over two-thirds of our planet, yet, less than 3% is freshwater suitable for consumption [1]. Certain countries are water-rich, while many others are...
Just Another Brick in the Wall? The London Housing Crisis and Unfair Distribution
We don’t need no wealth taxation. We don’t need no land controls. Re-distribution? Not on our watch. Hey, Corbyn, leave our wealth alone! As house...
Against the clock
For the fifth young person queuing in front of me, an assembly line boxing opinions and ideologies in confined choices, I see the young ones;...
The New Story Run and Post-growth Zurich
In December 2019, two former Leeds students met for a conversation about System Change and Degrowth in Zurich. Rosie Watson (BA Environment & Business graduate)...
Ghost Fishing: the spectre of unsustainable scale haunting our seas
We’ve all heard about the plastic problem in our oceans. We’ve seen pictures: great floating garbage islands, and remote beaches covered in straws and bottles....
World Governments are funding Climate Change
The Amazon and Australia are burning. England and Venice are flooded. Indonesia is having to relocate its capital to Borneo as Jakarta is sinking (1). ...
Food for thought: a student sustainability architect's perspective
We all need food. We do not need food in the same way that we need transport or clothes or anything else that makes our...
Biodiversity Action Planning across the University of Leeds residences
Habitat loss and fragmentation are key drivers of biodiversity loss [1], with urbanisation having a greater impact on species than any other habitat conversion [2]. The...
Food inequality: humanity's biggest moral failure?
“The number of overweight people in the world, suffering their own health problems, is roughly equal to the number of hungry people” [1]. A shocking...
Is the scale of our current plastic waste sustainable? No, not even close
100 billion is a big number. Whilst it may be trivial to understand what this number and its digits represent in a purely mathematical sense,...
Understanding waste management at the University of Leeds
Who knew waste management could be so interesting? During my time as an architect, my role is to understand the current waste management practices at...
The Earth's Forests are at their tipping point
The average life span of a tree in the amazon is approximately just over 300 years old, and have lasted generations, though due to deforestation...
The casualties of consumption (it’s not just the environment)
Many have seen the film ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’. The protagonist, ‘Girl in the Green Scarf’, racks up masses of debt due to her compulsive...
ICT products make our life prosper. But a problem is emerging.
Essential things for modern life, such as smartphones, laptops and televisions may influence on our health. How many years have you used your smartphones? The answer depends...
Let the money do the talking: how economics has led to Indigenous language loss
We…are living at the point in human history where, within perhaps two generations, most languages in the world will die out [1] There are around...
Born to Be Killed: The Unsustainable Scale of The Meat Industry
We have been fed yet another lie and quite literally this time. A little white lie that emphasizes eating meat to receive adequate levels of...