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Natural World, The Warwick Sphere

Science and the future of food at Warwick Crop Centre, Part 2: Protection of Vital Vegetables

By Sakeena Rajpal, GLOBUS Communications and Events Officer As the air turns crisper and colder, and the festive season draws closer and closer, I suddenly remembered how important roast vegetables are to a perfect Christmas dinner, shining like jewels as they arrive crispy and tender out of the oven on Christmas day. This is not forgetting how important vegetables are in a perfect Sunday roast, … Continue reading Science and the future of food at Warwick Crop Centre, Part 2: Protection of Vital Vegetables

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Politics & Governance, Social Justice, The Warwick Sphere

Effective Activism: A Hopeful Step Towards a Sustainable Future

By Isabel Govier, Assistant Editor and Campaigns Manager of GLOBUS Over recent years the world has been met with ever-increasing waves of activism, with over a third of all human rights climate cases being filed between 2020 and 2021. At the University of Warwick there are 42 charity and campaigning societies, striving to increase sustainability via direct and indirect forms of activism. With the magnitude of … Continue reading Effective Activism: A Hopeful Step Towards a Sustainable Future

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The Warwick Sphere

Science and the future of food at Warwick Crop Centre: Part 1

By Sakeena Rajpal, GLOBUS Communications and Events Officer Did someone say dinner for 67 million? As a nation, food security is something that is always on our minds, even more so due to the plethora of issues such as Brexit, Covid-19, the Ukraine War and inflation- not forgetting climate change posing a significant risk to UK food production.  Despite the UK having a successful agricultural … Continue reading Science and the future of food at Warwick Crop Centre: Part 1

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Lifestyle, Sustainable Student Living, The Warwick Sphere

Sustainability Guides: Maddie Booth

Maddie Booth, a Politics and GSD alumni from Warwick, is the Founder and Director of Scrubbee, a sustainable skincare business focused on creating value from ‘waste’ by upcycling by-products from the food and drink sector. In her video interview, she talks us through the conception of Scrubbee, challenges she had to overcome and provides some advice on how to bring ideas to life. Continue reading Sustainability Guides: Maddie Booth

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Politics & Governance, The Warwick Sphere, UNFCCC/COP

Warwick Climate Negotiation Forum: Students for a Better Future

by Izzy Hardern, GLOBUS Correspondent, and Katy Greco, Deputy Editor Izzy Hardern – 29th October 2021 With COP26 taking place in Glasgow, the University of Warwick had its own simulation of global climate negotiations so that students passionate about preventing climate change could experience the highs and lows of negotiating the green transition. As a Model UN-type debate, the Warwick Climate Negotiation Forum had students … Continue reading Warwick Climate Negotiation Forum: Students for a Better Future

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Lifestyle, Sustainable Student Living, The Warwick Sphere

Sustainable Student Living: Student Houses

By Naomi Harris, GLOBUS Correspondent By the end of term two, admittedly, the initial excitement university halls had worn off. In my case, sharing a tiny kitchen with 12 people became impractical, shared bathrooms were tiresome, and you realise how much you missed being able to collapse onto a sofa and watch some telly at the end of a long day. Personally, living off-campus could … Continue reading Sustainable Student Living: Student Houses

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Social Design, The Warwick Sphere

WARWICK CUP:Balancing Studies, a Start-up and Saving The World

By Ellie Church, Maddie Booth and Hollie Ryan, GLOBUS contributors  5,555 disposable coffee cups are thrown away every single minute in the UK, with Warwick University accumulating an annual total of at least 750,000 cups. These numbers are astonishingly unsustainable. It is a problem that never be solved by just replacing traditional single-use cups with plastic-lined paper and compostable alternatives, as these solutions not only contaminate the recycling system but emit … Continue reading WARWICK CUP:Balancing Studies, a Start-up and Saving The World

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Sustainable Student Living: Burnout

By Lucy Jordan, GLOBUS Deputy Editor Burnout: a student’s fateful friend. Whether it’s those increasingly heavy eyes in the library, frequent TLC Netflix binges, or sudden overwhelming bursts of dread, usually of everything and nothing at all, we all grow accustomed to its everyday fatigue. But, what happens when we neglect to nurture these early warnings? What does it truly mean to be ‘burnt out’? … Continue reading Sustainable Student Living: Burnout

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Lifestyle, Sustainable Student Living, The Warwick Sphere

Sustainable Student Living: Charity Shops

By Braedie Atkins, GLOBUS Correspondent Painting a wardrobe that you bought for £30 and changing the doorknobs is an excellent way to decorate your room – and it doesn’t cost hundreds of pounds. The same goes with clothing. A new jumper, or pair of jeans for £5, gives you room to make alterations so they fit in with your style. There’s no need to follow … Continue reading Sustainable Student Living: Charity Shops

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Energy & Climate Change, The Warwick Sphere

Beyond Petroleum? Inside the BP Archive

The author would like to thank the BP Archive team for hosting us. Last term, GLOBUS expressed concern regarding the involvement of BP as a sponsor of a campus panel event hosted by Warwick PPE Society and run by ‘slow news’ startup Tortoise Media, arranged to consider the question ‘Should we stop using fossil fuels altogether?’. This concern centred around the dangers of involving a … Continue reading Beyond Petroleum? Inside the BP Archive

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