Course: Sustainability, Society and You

Join us here for the last of our ‘live’ discussions in the course: Achieving Carbon reductions – are some Tonnes of CO2 better than others? – and what do businesses …

‘What is the use, for a country like ours, of an engineer who possesses the most up-to-date ideas about the making of houses, roads and about bridge building, but who …

Sustainability is about ‘saving the planet’, about reducing our reliance upon finite resources and about working within the limits of our planet to try to achieve a good quality of …

Pete Licence is Professor of Chemistry and Director of The GlaxoSmithKline Carbon Neutral Laboratory at Nottingham. He feels that both legislation and good practice are driving industry towards sustainability, both …

What better way to get academics talking about sustainability than over a free lunch – but is there any such thing? Join Mike Clifford as he explains the principles behind …

“Be the change you want to see in the world” – Ghandi The issues that we have showcased and discussed demonstrate the very real problems our world and society is …

This video explains how academic chemists at Nottingham work with industry to develop innovative and sustainable solutions to our everyday needs and wants. Those of you in China can also …

In this video, filmed in September 2013, Rossana Wright talks to colleagues from the School of Chemistry about the role that Chemistry can play in developing a sustainable future, and …

In this session our geographer, Dr Simon Gosling, discusses the significance of the world’s forests for sustainability. First in the video, and then in more detail in the reading that …

At a basic level, the study of a language other than our own exposes us to difference. We engage with other cultures in a sympathetic way and language studies often …