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Environmental Issues

Welcome to the school’s Environmental Issues page.

We hope that this page will help to raise awareness of environmental issues, and especially that of climate change, which is one of the most important of our time.

At a meeting of the School of Psychology in early December 2007, it was decided to create an environmental working group. The main purpose of this group, which included both staff and postgraduate students, was to decide on ways in which the school as an organizational unit of the university and as a collection of individuals might reduce its impact on the environment, including most importantly it’s ’carbon footprint’, or quantity of carbon dioxide produced directly and indirectly by School-related activities.

The result of the meeting was a report suggesting how the School both as a unit and as a group of individuals might mitigate its environmental impact. You can read that report here.

Environmental Working Group Report

One of the recommendations in the report is the promotion of greater environmental awareness among staff and students. This webpage is one way in which that can be achieved. The report also contains other recommendations which we envisage will be carried out over time. For now, we’re posting environmentally friendly suggestions, and documents and weblinks where you can read a bit more about the environmental challenge posed by climate change.

Suggestions

Printing documents to reduce paper use
- Printing multiple pages onto one
  - Go to File – select Print as usual
  - Within the print dialogue box, select properties
  - Within the properties dialogue box, select finishing
  - Within the finishing dialogue box, under ’pages per sheet and posters’, select desired number of pages per sheet (e.g. 2 or 4)
  - Click OK and print as usual
- Printing double-sided
  - Select ’Print’ as usual
  - In the ’Print’ window choose ’Even pages’
  - When the print run is finished, replace the paper, and select ’Print’ again
  - In the ’Print’ window, choose ’Odd pages

Documents

British Psychological Society stance on Climate Change

Links

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This page was last updated Sunday, November 23, 2008