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Sustainability

Resources

This section highlights some useful links and resources relating to sustainability.

If you're working on a project in this area, or would like to recommend resources for us to include on these pages, we'd love to hear from you! Equally, if you are interested in adding sustainability resources to your module reading lists but are not sure where to start, we would be happy to talk to you and discuss how we can help, so please do get in touch.

Some starter resources are listed below to get you started. Click on the tabs to the left for further resources. 

The University of Essex Sustainability webpages give an overview of what's being done at Essex to support sustainability.

You can take extra-curricular workshops through Essex’s Chart My Path and Big Essex Award

The United Nations Education for Sustainable Development Goals: Learning Objectives (2017) document provides definitions of key terminologies. It can be download as a PDF or read online.

Alex Magnin’s highly engaging and informative animated videos on sustainability, climate change, circular economy and other related issues.  These can be found on Sustainability Illustrated YouTube site. All videos are available in English and French; some are also available in Japanese and Mandarin.

There are more useful resources on the following library reading lists:
Sustainability Awareness Week
Climate Emergency