As you may be aware, 40 volunteers are taking part in a “Climate Justice Challenge” this month. You can read about what everyone is doing on the CChallenge web page, where a range of blog posts and reflections are published daily: https://climatejustice.cchallenge.no. A fantastic element of the challenge has been that it has involved every sector of the School, students, professional services staff, estates and cleaning staff, and academic staff. That mix has been powerful.

There are some broad groupings of challenges, e.g., some are focusing on reducing waste and consumption, some on getting out into nature 1 hour a day/litter picking, some trying veganism/vegetarianism. The work is facilitated by the organisation cCHANGE, who are experts in transformative change.

Day 18 - the end of week 3 of the CChallenge

This week we are being prompted to think about system change related to our personal challenge. So, for example, relating to the group working on reducing waste and consumption, we have been wondering what we can do as a School. Could we get to a position where we put nothing in the landfill bins in 35 Berkeley Square? From looking at what goes into the recycling bins currently in the School, it seems there is a lot of confusion about what should go where – so some important work for us all here also. The University currently has 15 recycling streams so zero landfill really could be achievable!

Thank you to all the ambassadors for their work so far and we will report back again soon!