Matt Toombs, Director of Partnerships and Engagement for the COP26 team in Cabinet Office, outlines the Government’s plans and priorities for the 26th United Nations Climate Change conference in Glasgow next year – the largest international summit the UK has ever hosted ..read more

Adding the Sun Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Design art work Daniele Di Paolo and Natalia Eleanor ..read more

Speakers: – Mary O’Connell, Head of Parks & Community, Bankside Open Spaces Trust – Molly Gadenz, Green Hub Coordinator, Bankside Open Spaces Trust – Laura MacMahon, Community Learning Officer, Royal Parks – Iain Boutlon, Chair of Trustees, LEEF (London Environmental Educators Forum) Gardening is not only good for the environment but evidence shows it can make a massive difference to your stress levels and improve well-being. In fact, doctors are even starting to prescribe gardening for mental health! Biographies: Bankside Open Spaces Trust (BOST)is an environmental and volunteering charit ..read more

This session will focus on how embedding sustainability across LSBU has the potential to bring about wellbeing for the communities on and around campus. The session will include Research, Enterprise & Innovation (REI) at LSBU together with some REI student ambassadors in order to highlight the importance of equipping LSBU students with sustainability competencies that would increase their employability and wellbeing. Session Lead: Alex Misfud, Responsible Futures Project Manager, LSBU ..read more

The impacts of climate change are not experienced equally or fairly, between rich and poor, women and men, and older and younger generations.It is therefore imperative that we take action to address the climate crisis through a human rights approach. This session will bring together powerful young activists from around the world to talk about their youth-led campaigns that seek to achieve climate justice through different approaches and priorities, all with a focus on driving progress towards reaching the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Featuring: • Jeana Malhi, Systems Change Organiser ..read more

How has the fashion world changed in 2020 and what are the next steps for the each one of us to take? Join us in conversation with some of the leading fashion sustainability experts. We will be diving deep into a number of subjects & understanding how brands can authentically sustain an authentic commitment to sustainability. Speakers: – Aja Barber– Paola Masperi, Mayamiko– Amanda Johnston, The Sustainable Angle Biographies: Aja Barber is a writer, personal stylist and style consultant living in South East London. Her work focuses on sustainability, ethics, intersectional feminism, racism ..read more

This session will explore holistic sustainability, and look at what accessible and inclusive ‘conscious’ living really means. We will look at what we as individuals can do, and highlight examples of sustainable living and Climate Change activism not often centred in the mainstream narrative. This will feed into discussing the imperative for Climate Change activism to be led by the pursuit of Climate Justice, and why we must decolonise the environmental movement and ensure that our activism is intersectional. Biography: “I run a blog, Green Soul Grace, and an Environmental Education Organisatio ..read more

This session aims to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on BAME communities. It will explore the systems relating to structural racism and how it contributes to the excess of BAME death. The panel also discusses the impact of COVID-19 on BAME women in relation to the rise of domestic abuse. Session lead: Dr. Jaya Gajpara, Course Director for Education for Sustainability, LSBU. Joined by: • Dr Calvin Moorley, Associate Professor of Nursing Research and Diversity in Care, LSBU • Dr Rosetta West, Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing, LSBU • Nelly Kibirige, Life Coach, former LSBU Student Union president ..read more

Socrates said a life unexamined is not worth living. I say an action unexamined is not worth taking. I aim to persuade people to a radical rethink of small, everyday actions that unwittingly cause harm to the planet - possibly themselves too. I hope to make them aware of habits and practices they cling to, and encourage them to understand they can change their ways with little inconvenience. I want to alert people to the role that marketing and advertising has in ‘helping’ us make those choices, and to examine the reality behind the hokum dreamt up in advertising agencies. Biography: Dillie Ke ..read more

Alumni of the Education for Sustainability MSc will discuss the role that education for sustainability has played in their work and careers. The alumni on the panel will be drawn from different countries including Cameroon, Kenya and Zambia and from different fields including water policy, agriculture, civic rights, anti-corruption and education. They will offer a view onfuture developments in their own contexts, particularlyin relation to climate change. Session Lead: Dr Glen Strachan, Education for Sustainability Programme, School of Law and Social Sciences, LSBU. Joined by: • Stephen Asek ..read more