Sustainability

UCL sustainability awards ceremony took place virtually on 15th July. Congratulations to everyone on their awards!

Green Impact at UCL

Green Impact is a UCL-wide environmental competition and accreditation scheme that allows departments and divisions across the university to improve their environmental impact, support UCL's Sustainability Strategy and engage peers and colleagues with these essential issues.

ION Admin
includes : Brain Repair and Rehabilitation (Russell Square House), Imaging Neuroscience (12 Queen Square), Neurodegenerative Disease (Queen Square House), Education Team (7 Queen Square) and Admin and Library (23 Queen Square)

Cortex Lab
Dementia Research Centre
Queen Square Library

LEAF

Here at UCL Sustainability, we have developed a new tool to help researchers, staff and students, improve the sustainability and efficiency of their laboratories. We have called this tool LEAF, and have spent the past year piloting it at UCL and with 16 other research institutions.

Neuroinflammation (Wakefield Street);
Neurodegenerative Disease (Bates Lab, Queen Square House);
Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy
Brain Repair and Rehabilitation
Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging
UK DRI at UCL
Clinical Neurosciences

Neurodegenerative Disease & Neuromuscular Diseases (level 4, Queen Square House)

Neurodegenerative Disease, Clinical and Movement Neuroscience & Neuromuscular Diseases (level 7, Queen Square House)
Neuromuscular Diseases (level 2 and 5, Queen Square House)
Cortex Lab

ION Sustainability pledges 2019-20

All of our events will now be vegetarian catering and we will avoid plastic water bottles
Achieve Green Impact Silver Office Award
Organise an IoN green day
Co-ordinate an IoN wide LEAF group
Make waste and sustainability part of the IoN Labs induction
Set up a Lab equipment repair service for IoN buildings

ION Sustainability Activities 2019

HPF Labs case study: Ice Pack Reuse in Laboratories – New Solutions Needed

Dementia Research Centre: upcycled office chairs

Wakefield Street: Lab equipment repairs workshop

Queen Square Library organised series of Bird walks with UCL Conservation Society

Recycling of batteries, lightbulbs and small electrical items at Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, 12 Queen Square

Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging Virtual Brain Meetings

DCEE

Sanjay Sisodiya started epilepsyclimatechange, with members across the globe and spoke at last international meeting
Sisodiya et al Why should a neurologist worry about climate change? Lancet Neurol. 2019 Apr;18(4):335-336. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(19)30081-X.
Sisodiya et al Climate change and epilepsy: Time to take action Epilepsia. First published: 11 September 2019 https://doi.org/10.1002/epi4.12359

Help and support

UCL Sustainability website, including their Resources page
Introduction to Sustainability elearning course

If you are interested in getting involved, please contact IoN's Green Office Champion: sarah.lawson@ucl.ac.uk or IoN's Green Labs Champion: Steffy Czieso s.czieso@ucl.ac.uk

UCL Green Impact 2019 award winners at the Institute

We're delighted to announce the following teams' accreditations which will be presented at the UCL Sustainability Awards ceremony on 18th July 2019.

ION Admin Bronze

HPF Labs Silver

NMD Labs Gold

Full list of 2019 IoN award winners

IoN admin - Office Bronze;
DRC - Office Bronze;
HPF Labs - Labs Silver;
4th floor IoN Labs - Labs Bronze;
Neuromuscular Diseases (Brownstone, Greensmith and Schiavo) - Labs Gold ;
DRI Labs Cruciform - Labs Bronze;
Cortexlab - Labs and Office Silver

This follows success at previous years' awards:

2018: Office Excellence; Queen Square Library - Office Platinum; Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders - Labs Gold; “Wakefield Street Brainiacs” (Department of Molecular Neuroscience and The Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological Studies) - Labs Bronze; HPF Labs - Labs Bronze
2017: Education Unit - Office Silver; IoN admin (23 Queen Square) - Office Silver; Queen Square Library - Office Excellence; Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders - Labs Platinum; “Wakefield Street Brainiacs” (Department of Molecular Neuroscience and The Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological Studies) - Labs Bronze
2016: DCEE - Working towards accreditation; DRC - Gold; Education Unit - Bronze; Queen Square Library - Platinum
2015 : Queen Square Library and the Dementia Research Centre (DRC) received Platinum and Silver awards