Tag: environmental careers

  • Youth Activism With Mikaela Loach, EnvironmentalistYouth Activism With

    Friday 10th February KS3-5 / S1-6 Join us and 24 year old Mikala Loach, as she talks to us about her new book, IT’S NOT THAT RADICAL!: Climate Action To Transform Our World. Mikaela is a freelance writer about all things sustainability, ethical-living, refugee rights & intersectional activism. she is based in Edinburgh, where she studies medicine, she is passionate about collectively combatting the climate crisis. In this broadcast, you will get a chance to ask her about her thought on the current climate and find out ways you can have a bigger positive impact. 

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  • WRAP UK – Panel event for Green Skills Week

    29/04/21 WRAP UK – Panel event for Green Skills Week KS 4 – 5 / S4-6 Wondering how business can become more eco-friendly? WRAP is one of the globe’s leading sustainability charities. Hear from our panellists Julie Hill (Chair), Emma Hallett (Team Manager Collaborative Change Programme), Maria Stapleton (Behaviour Change Project Manager) & William McManus (Sector Specialist – Food) who help drive change and create a better world. WRAP work with businesses, governments, citizens and charities to make the planet a healthier, safer place. Further reading: Food Waste prevention resource for schools

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  • Green Skills Week sponsor broadcast with Man Group – Luke Ellis, CEO and Robyn Grew, Group COO

    Green Skills Week sponsor broadcast with Man Group 22/03/21 Age KS 3-5 / S 1-6 Watch our Green Skills Week broadcast with our Primary Sponsor, Man Group. We speak to Luke Ellis, CEO, and Robyn Grew, COO and General Counsel, about Green Skills Week, the importance of green skills, how green skills are currently used at Man Group, and how the world of finance is becoming increasingly green.

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  • Businesses partner with Speakers for Schools to introduce young people to careers that will save the planet

    Businesses partner with Speakers for Schools to introduce young people to careers that will save the planet Students get access to jobs that fight climate change Speakers for Schools launches Green Skills Week 2021 Green Skills competition open to solve green issues Educational equality charity Speakers for Schools is teaming up with Britain’s most environmentally focused employers to tackle the unemployment crisis and future-proof the next generation in a post-COVID economy. To coincide with the UK Government’s plans for a Green Industrial Revolution, Speakers for Schools is launching Green Skills Week 2021, a campaign to introduce young people to future […]

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  • Baroness Helene Hayman and Baroness Floella Benjamin – Peers for the Planet Broadcast

    Panel event with Peers for the Planet 25/11/20 KS4 & 5/ S4-6 We were delighted to broadcast this panel discussion with Peers for the Planet members Baroness Helene Hayman and Baroness Floella Benjamin. The Peers discussed topics including what sparked their interest in climate change and the environment and how they are working to legislate for change. The talk included a Q+A chat function where students asked their questions, moderated by SFS staff.          

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