Recipe competition among Green Festival 2022 highlights

Your favourite low-carbon recipe could be added to the menu in campus outlets as part of this year’s Green Festival.

The Sustainability team’s Green Festival, running 1-11 November, is an annual celebration that features activities promoting environmentally friendly actions and advice that will help save money as well as emissions.

A range of new activities have been added to the programme this year, including a low-carbon recipe competition, free bike checks and cycle tours, and a chance to get hands-on with air quality monitoring equipment.

Green Festival highlights for staff include:

• Low-carbon recipe competition: Submit a main meal recipe that is kind to the planet as well as tastebuds to be in with a chance of winning a meal for two on campus and your recipe being served up to staff and students in catering outlets. Deadline 11 November. More details on the Sustainability webpage.
• Green energy tours: See how the University is embracing renewable technology to make us one of the greenest universities in the UK.
• Day of Cycling: Take part in a range of different cycle tours, get your bike checked for winter for free and find out about free cycle training.
• Sustainable Travel and Air Quality Day: Explore all the different ways you can travel more sustainably and how to save money, and get a close look at technology University researchers are using to help improve air quality locally.
• Energy bill advice: Meet the experts from the RUSU Advice service and Citizens Advice to find out how you can save money on your energy bills this winter and be more sustainable.
• Community litter pick: Take action to make a difference in our local community by coming along to our litter pick.

Check out the full programme of events and sign-up links on the Green Festival events homepage.

As an extra incentive, colleagues and students will earn Green Points on the staff Doing #UoR Bit platform by attending any Green Festival events.