Environment & Ethics (YUSU)

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Isobel Edwards

Environment & Ethics Officer

Blog

UK Green Film Festival 18-20 May at City Screen York!

Posted 14/05/2012.

City Screen explores some of today's big environmental issues with three films and speakers for the UK Green Film Festival.

Don't forget to vote this week for the 2 motions put forward.

Posted 13/05/2012.

One is about how the uni spend our course fees, the other is about unethical funding to some of our courses. Have your say and express your opinion. VOTING OPENS MONDAY 9AM on the YUSU website.

Environment and Ethics Network for University of York

Posted 04/05/2012.

Do you want to have a position on the Environment and Ethics Network for University of York? Elections are next week!

Do you want to be part of the Oxjam York Takeover festival team this October?

Posted 30/04/2012.

Be part of the team which puts on the Oxjam York 2012 Takeover festival this year!

Turning your campus into an Edible Uni!

Posted 22/04/2012.

Your Environment and Ethics officer are starting the Edible Uni project this term, planting herbs, salads, vegetables and fruit around campus for everyone to enjoy for free! Join in...

I’m here to make sure that it’s as easy as possible to live an environmentally and socially sustainable student life. I believe that an environmental and ethical consciousness shouldn’t be a burden and that becoming more aware of the world around us is part of what being at university is about.

York may sometimes seem like an isolated bubble, but our actions at university and the decisions we make can have far reaching consequences. Do we buy merchandise from suppliers that use sweat shops or those which are socially responsible? Should the money we pay to the university in fees fund arms sales to Saudi Arabia or companies with more peaceful interests? I’m here to try and answer these questions.

Of course, one of the ways in which our actions affect the world is through our relationship with the environment. Scientists across the world agree that human activity is having a detrimental effect on the climate and we’ve all got to take responsibility for our own impact. We can offer advice and support to students as well as campaigning for wider changes from student organisations, the university and local and national government.