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The UEA Sustainability Newsletter is back from its summer break. If you are a new subscriber, welcome! If you have been a subscriber for some time, nice to see you again! We aim to update you fortnightly on sustainability-related news and events at UEA and in Norwich. Please send any feedback and content for the next edition to [email protected] and help us widen the reach of this initiative by inviting others to subscribe to the newsletter here: https://ueasustainabilitynetwork.weebly.com/newsletter.html Happening at UEA Video: Meet UEA’s Sustainability Initiatives Want to get involved in climate and environmental activism at UEA? Want to easily reduce your environmental footprint whilst studying? UEA got you covered: watch this video clip for an introduction to the sustainability initiatives active at UEA, and to find out how you can get involved. This clip has been produced by UEASU and DEV. If you are involved in any sustainability initiative at UEA that isn’t included in the video, let them know and they’ll include you in the next edition! Any Last Words? Creative Climate Writing Competition Fancy writing some tales of extinction, adaptation and mitigation? Want to be in with a chance of winning print publication and a chunk of our £350 prize pool? Do you have Any Last Words to give on climate change? Enter the Any Last Words? Creative Climate Writing Competition now! This UEA-Student-led competition is open to any students with an ac.uk email address. Shortlisted pieces will receive print publication and feedback from a panel of highly regarded literary and scientific judges (including the prolific author and Bafta Award winning producer Stephen Moss!). The grand prize winner will also receive a cash prize of £200, whilst there are two £50 prizes up for grabs for best short form and long form piece. Deadline is the 23rd October. For more submission info and details on how to enter, head to www.anylastwordscompetition.wordpress.com. UEA Conservation Society & UEA Sustainabilty Society Working Groups Are you a UEA student or alumni? Interested in increasing biodiversity on campus? Want to join forces with UEA Conservation Society & UEA Sustainabilty Society? Join one of their working groups! Email to register your interest at [email protected] 💚 🌻 rewilding & relandscaping 🌻 The ‘rewilding & relandscaping’ working group will hopefully be working with the uea biodiversity implementation and landscaping team to relandscape as much of campus as possible: creating small native wildflower meadows, richly biodiverse areas and increasing pollinating opportunities for native insects. The group needs student help for research, networking and development of a fully fledged plan that we can present at the next biodiversity meeting in November 2020. We're hoping to start planting in the Spring of 2021. 🦔 habitat creation 🦔 The ‘habitat creation’ working group is hoping to work with the uea biodiversity implementation and landscaping team to create and install bug, bee, bat & bird boxes across campus. The group needs student help for research, networking and development of a fully fledged plan that they can also present at the next biodiversity meeting in November 2020. They'll also need some student help to plan and run workshops for creating these habitats, as well as some funding wizardry. Allyship training Jumara Stone, Wellbeing Training Manager in STS, is delivering Black Lives Matter (BLM) Allyship training on 26th October at 14:00 – 16:30 for Black History Month and it is open to students and staff (mainly to white members of the community) to learn more about the issues on racism and how to be active allies. If you are interested, please email [email protected] to book a slot. (Though not strictly speaking sustainability-related, we have decided to promote this training here because environmental / climate justice is racial justice!) Tyndall Centre monthly seminars Weblink: https://zoom.us/j/95470177989 Password: 753934
Global Environmental Justice MOOC It’s not yet too late to join the Global Environmental Justice MOOC organised by the School of International Development. Sign up for free to learn about how climate change, biodiversity loss and deforestation affect people, exploring justice in environment management. Events in Norwich & beyond Norfolk Climate Change Conference on Saturday 31st October 2-3.30pm The conference will provide a platform to reflect on the lessons from the coronavirus pandemic for dealing with the urgent problem of climate change. A conference for the whole community young and old; town and country; activist and the curious; scientist and layman. Register here to watch live or re-watch on YouTube. Speakers include:
EAUC Global Climate Conference from 16-20 November The Global Climate Conference in Education, organised by EAUC/ The Alliance for Sustainability Leadership in Education will take place online this year and is free for students! To create a free EAUC account, register here using your UEA email address and select UEA in the drop-down box. On the agenda are Climate Justice, Transformational Student Engagement, the Future of Global Research and many more burning issues! Please help us improve this newsletter by submitting any relevant content or suggestions for improvements to [email protected]. We also welcome contributions to our UEA Sustainability Blog: https://ueasustainabilitynetwork.weebly.com/blog Please get in touch with any relevant content. Finally, we welcome new members of the editorial team! Please get in touch if you can lend a hand. Thank you! Em, Elletra, Hannah, Hannah, and Henry
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