Green Fifteen

Today we're talking to Emma Sancho, a 4th year psychology student who's involved in the Plant-Based Universities Campaign, which recently kicked off at Glasgow Uni.

Join us to learn more about the benefits of having a plant-based diet and to understand the motivations behind the campaign. If you'd like to get involved, you can visit their website here and follow them on Instagram at @plantbasedunis and @plantbasedunisglasgow for the Glasgow branch.

Here are some of the resources mentioned in this episode:

If you want to get involved with GUEST, visit our website or Instagram page at @uofgguest, and if you have any questions don't hesitate to contact me at [email protected].

Thank you for listening to this month's episode, and stay tuned for more!

Do you want to know more about what it's like to work for GUEST?

Join our sustainable food promoter Madeleine as she sits down with some of our GUEST promoters to chat about what they've been up to this year and what they've enjoyed most about working for GUEST.

Links that we discussed in the podcast:

Application for promoters - https://glasgow.targetconnect.net/leap/jobs.html?id=87449&service=Careers+Service

Application for bike mechanic - https://glasgow.targetconnect.net/leap/jobs.html?id=87513&service=Careers+Service

Recorded information session - https://youtu.be/Zv5xpYYsV6U

In this episode, the three GUEST coordinators talk about what makes a career sustainable and how to begin a sustainable career.

Some job sites discussed in the episode:

https://forpurposejobs.com/

https://80000hours.org/

Sustain job vacancy newsletters here:

https://www.sustain-eu.org/news/discover-latest-issue-sustain-newsletter/

If you’re a UofG student, you can apply for a job at GUEST here before the 18th May.

In this episode, community engagement promoter Rosanna facilitates a discussion with Glasgow Student Housing Co-op members to find out more about what the housing co-op is and how you can get involved. 

In this episode we're talking about petroculture - what is it and how do we get out of it? Thalia  chats to GUEST's Izzy Thomas-Horton and former oil-industry professional Tony Makin. 

Join our sustainable food promoter Madeleine as she chats to Thalia about food banks, the government's most recent consultation on ending the need for them, alternative solutions and why seeing food banks as a way to reduce food waste is so problematic. 

Links mentioned in the podcast:

https://www.gov.scot/publications/ending-need-food-banks-consultation-draft-national-plan/

https://www.cwin.org.uk/services/garnethill-multicultural-food-hub/

http://www.edibleestates.co.uk/

You can contact Madeleine via email: [email protected]

In this podcast episode we hear from Hannah George, an organiser of Glasgow Goes Green Festival, and Isobel Thomas-Horton, a member of World + 3 Journal, on creative approaches to the climate crisis.

If you’re listening before the end of February 2022, check out all of the events GUEST are running as part of Glasgow Goes Green on our Facebook page.

CW: contains discussion of depression and anxiety

In this episode of Green Fifteen, GUEST’s student engagement promoter Hannah discusses eco-anxiety with four people who are working at the intersection between the climate crisis and our mental health;

Caroline from The Climate Psychology Alliance (https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/)

Monique from Elephant in the Room (https://www.qmunion.org.uk/elephant)

Cheryl from the University of Glasgow (https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/cherylmcgeachan/)

Marla from the Resilience Project (https://www.theresilienceproject.org.uk/)

CW: contains discussion of depression and anxiety

In this episode of Green Fifteen, GUEST’s student engagement promoter Hannah discusses eco-anxiety with four people who are working at the intersection between the climate crisis and our mental health;

Caroline from The Climate Psychology Alliance (https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/)

Monique from Elephant in the Room (https://www.qmunion.org.uk/elephant)

Cheryl from the University of Glasgow (https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/cherylmcgeachan/)

Marla from the Resilience Project (https://www.theresilienceproject.org.uk/)

Our Transport Promoter Natasha and Social Media Promoter Fan talk in this podcast about sustainable ways to travel home over the winter holidays. We cover the advantages of slow travel, the different modes of transport that exist, and some of our personal experiences with slow travel. For more tips and information, have a look at greentraveller.co.uk!