Sustainability

Introductory online training and a PDF guide to working sustainably.

You can find introductory training on sustainability here.

Lasting around an hour to an hour and a half, the course below will look at:

  • what sustainability means at the University of Edinburgh
  • what sustainability is and key issues facing the world today
  • four major areas in which the University is working on sustainability, namely operations, learning and teaching, research and partnerships
  • finally, actions you can take to live, work and study more sustainably.

Online training course - introduction to sustainability

 

This earlier guide (below), Be Sustainable, developed in 2015 in partnership between the Institute for Academic Development and the Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability, covers topics including:

  • computers
  • energy
  • laboratories
  • procurement
  • research

Though a number of links and initiatives will be out of date now, there is still some useful general advice that may still be relevant.

You can download it in full as a PDF:

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