This year’s Imperial College London Sustainability Week will take place from the 21st-25th March! Organised by Sustainable Imperial and the Imperial College Union, the week will be packed with panel discussions, talks and interactive events on sustainability at Imperial and beyond. We will be celebrating the Imperial research that is helping us transition to a zero pollution society and looking at the action we’re taking on our own campuses to make Imperial’s operations Net Zero by 2040.
Each day will have its own theme, with a corresponding screening of The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet documentaries. The Union also have a variety of events planned by the ICU Ethics & Environment network, the Environmental Society, and other CSPs that will be happening throughout the week.
Updates to come on the Sustainable Imperial website, Imperial College Union and societies channels. Please get in touch if you would like to get involved!
What’s On:
Monday 21 March – Climate
12:00 – 13:00 Sustainability at Imperial: An update and what’s next?
Join us for the first event for Sustainability Week 2022, which will provide an update on sustainability at Imperial, what’s in store and an opportunity to ask our panellists some questions.
17:00 – 18:00 Safe and Sustainable Lithium-ion Batteries
A new White Paper from Imperial College London’s Energy Futures Lab and the Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering investigates the safety and sustainability of lithum-ion batteries, exploring ways of reducing their impact on the environment while ensuring they do not pose a danger to the health of workers or users.
18:30 – 19:30 Screening of ‘Fix Our Climate’ The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet documentary
Watch a screening of the BBC documentary where Prince William and Sir David Attenborough explore simple, ambitious ideas to repair our planet – solutions offering hope for nature and humanity.
08:00 – 15:00 Student Switch-Off campaign across Halls of Residence
Students Organising for Sustainability UK (SOS-UK) will be running stalls across Imperial College London Halls of Residence promoting the Student Switch Off campaign and sustainable living whilst at university.
Tuesday 22 March – Oceans
10:00 – 16:30 Reviving UK Waterways
This event is bringing together a range of expert and community speakers looking at water pollution and action for reviving UK waterways. The aim of the day is to identify the key environmental issues affecting UK communities that are in close contact with rivers and waterways and to scope the barriers and opportunities to their resolution from the communities’ perspective.
17:30 – 18:30 Meet the Imperial Student Groups Tackling Climate Change
The Investment Society and Divest Imperial will be touching on sustainable and ethical investment, as well as Imperial’s relationship with fossil fuels. Climate Entrepreneurs and the Energy Society will be sharing some of their current projects, and Friends of Medicins Sans Frontiers will be sharing some of their frontline experiences.
18:30 – 19:30 Screening of ‘Revive Our Oceans’ The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet documentary
Watch a screening of the BBC documentary where Prince William and Sir David Attenborough explore simple, ambitious ideas to repair our planet – solutions offering hope for nature and humanity.
Wednesday 23 March – Air
12:00 – 13:00 Solving issues around air pollution: At Imperial and Beyond
Organised by Transition to Zero Pollution and the Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering, attend a panel discussion with Imperial College London experts who will be discussing issues around air pollution. This discussion will focus on air pollution within the Imperial college campus and the wider London areas and what can be done about it.
18:30 – 19:30 Screening of ‘Clean Our Air’ The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet documentary
Watch a screening of the BBC documentary where Prince William and Sir David Attenborough explore simple, ambitious ideas to repair our planet – solutions offering hope for nature and humanity.
Thursday 24 March – Waste
08:30 – 15:00 Imperial Clothes Swap
Bring your donated items between 08:30 – 11:00 and then the browse the swap shop and exchange your tokens for other donated items between 12:00 – 15:00.
11:00 – 12:00 Repair & Upcycling Workshop
Attend our repair workshop, where you will have the opportunity to learn about the fashion industry and pick up some new techniques to repair and customise your own clothes. Sign-up is compulsory.
18:30 – 19:30 Screening of ‘Build a Waste-Free World’ The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet documentary
Watch a screening of the BBC documentary where Prince William and Sir David Attenborough explore simple, ambitious ideas to repair our planet – solutions offering hope for nature and humanity.
Friday 25 March – Biodiversity
12:00 – 13:00 “Metamazonia” – radical innovation to save the planet
The Amazon Rainforest is dying, and along with it our opportunity to tackle the climate emergency. AMA Group is on a journey, twenty years in the making, that will deliver radical innovation to arrest the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest and the communities that call it home.
13:00 – 17:00 Discovering Imperial’s Secret Garden
Join the E&E network and ESoc in an afternoon of planting and tending their garden on the South Kensington campus, behind Weeks Hall (on the same road as Ethos, where the PCR testing centre is). They will be giving a tour at the start of the session, and then proceed to plant flowers, refill bird-feeders, sowing seeds and other relaxing activities. The frogs in the pond have just laid eggs, and the bulbs are starting to bloom, so drop by at any time to discover this small nature reserve on campus!
16:00 – 17:00 Preserving Nature while Protecting the Climate: Aligning twin crises action
Imperial experts will discuss the interrelationships between climate change and biodiversity loss, highlight areas where there may be risks of trade-offs and draw out win-win-win opportunities that help climate, nature and people at the same time.
18:30 – 19:30 Screening of ‘ Protect & Restore Nature’ The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet documentary
Watch a screening of the BBC documentary where Prince William and Sir David Attenborough explore simple, ambitious ideas to repair our planet – solutions offering hope for nature and humanity.