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Green Impact Award April 24th 2013
The NUS Green Impact programme has been in progress at UCL for the second year running. The programme encourages teams to undertake a number of actions to reduce their environmental impacts - thereby contributing to UCL's overall environmental sustainability programme. In 2011/12, 19 UCL teams signed up and completed actions as part of Green Impact. In 2012/13, 29 teams have got involved in the programme and undertaken actions ranging from the purchase of sustainable food to the use of UCL's waste reuse scheme, WarpIt. As a result of the programme, UCL was able to achieve the following More...
Published: May 2, 2013 11:55:53 AM
Green Champions Forum and Training Sessions
The next Green Champions Forum will take place on Wednesday April 10th 1-2pm in G01 Central House. Lunch will be provided. If you would like to attend please email greenucl@ucl.ac.uk with the number of people and any dietary requirements. More...
Published: Mar 11, 2013 10:39:22 AM
Irena McCabe (Science and Technology Studies): Display re environmental sustainability
From an impoverished background in Ireland, Tyndall rose to eminence as a scientist of versatility and distinction. The analysis of his discovery of the greenhouse gases in this poster focuses on his commitment, his procedures, and the interpretation of his experimental results which bear fruit today in the foundation of Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the year 2000 with its headquarters at the University of East Anglia, the participation of seven other UK Universities and the Fudan University in Shanghai, constituting the Tyndall Consortium.
In 1850 Tyndall became inspired by the book by an Italian physicist Macedonio Melloni’s (1798-1854) “La Thermochrose” in which the author, motivated by his love of nature, pioneered experimental investigations of the thermal properties of substances in the solid and liquid phase. Tyndall boldly resolved to do the same for gases.
